Postby Tetsuwan Penguin » 11 years ago
F-Man: Sorry 'bout that, but I don't think we gave away enough of the important plot to really spoil the read. Adolf is a very well written graphic novel with lots of plot elements involving at least a dozen characters. One thing that did surprise me was that the good doctor didn't draw himself into the action as he usually does and there were really only two of his star system characters in it. I'll let you read it to find the other one.
A few days after I finished it I ran into a bunch of old war time Disney, MGM, and Popeye cartoons on Youtube. The Disney anti-Nazi cartoons were just as biting as Tezuka's Adolf. The Popeye cartoons were set in the Pacific and their depiction of the Japanese just as racially incorrect as Tezuka's depiction of blacks, though Tezuka wasn't trying to be racial while the animators of Popeye during the war most certainly were. (And American animators of the '30 through '50's were just as guilty in how they depicted blacks).