Random Thoughts — 10

Exhibits in an Atrocity Museum

1988 Japanese anime about the fire bombing of Tokyo

So, this is the way my brain works sometimes.

I read an interesting piece by Adebayo Adeniran.

Wakanda: A Multi-Trillion Dollar African Economy Untouched By Western Backed Coups and Dictators? Think Again

It made me think of the Biafran War of the 60’s and what an atrocity that was. How it’s almost been forgotten.

How so many other atrocities of the 20th century are being forgotten.

I love graphic novels.

Finder, by Carla Speed McNeil, is in my personal canon of the great works of this artform. It’s brilliant. Right up there with Neil Gaiman’s EPIC story cycle “Sandman”, the anarchist politics of Alan Moore’s V for Vendetta, the furious defense of Liberal Ideals by Warren Ellis in Transmetropolitan, and the immersive world building of Mark Smylie’s Artesia.

The link between these two threads is the Atrocity Museum.

In “Finder” there is an “Atrocity Museum” in the city. It’s not what you imagine. There are no exhibits.

You go into a plain empty room. You stand alone in silence.

You tell your story. Your testimony.