It’s July. I’m a little stunned at how fast 2017 has been passing us by. Half the year is gone already! A ton of really fantastic books have come out in those first six months, and if you’ve got vacation planned for this summer, it’ll be a good time to catch up before the back half of the year.
Given that the Fourth of July is in a couple of days, it had me thinking about stories that deal explicitly with patriotism and the founding of the country, and I remembered a graphic novel that I read recently: Rebels: A Well-Regulated Militia by Brian Wood. It’s a really fantastic story set in 1775, just before the colonies declared their independence from Great Britain.
The comic follows a young man named Seth Abbott and his wife Mercy as they settle in the frontier and deal with the challenges of living in the forests of what would eventually become Vermont. Seth joins the ongoing rebellion, and takes part in conflicts such as the Battle of Bunker Hill, and the capture of Fort Ticonderoga. It’s a complicated, nuanced tale about duty and survival, and I’d recommend looking it up. A second series, Rebels: These Free And Independent States began hitting stores in March.
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