A review by philipf
The New Adventures of Abraham Lincoln by Scott McCloud

4.0

I've been meaning to re-read this for years, ever since a comic blog (Mike Sterling's Progressive Ruin) mentioned that the rhetoric coming from the fake Abraham Lincoln sounded a lot like the rhetoric coming from the then-current Bush White House (I said I've been meaning to re-read this for years). He was absolutely right. This book's message about the dangers of letting symbols become more important than the things they symbolize is an important lesson, and one that we may have forgotten.
I didn't care much for this book when I first read back in 1998, but recent history has caused me to re-evaluate my opinion of it. I like it a lot better now.