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- <text id=91TT0368>
- <title>
- Feb. 18, 1991: The Comic-Book War
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- <history>
- TIME--The Weekly Newsmagazine--1991
- Feb. 18, 1991 The War Comes Home
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- <article>
- <source>Time Magazine</source>
- <hdr>
- GRAPEVINE, Page 13
- The Comic-Book War
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- <p>By David Ellis/Reported by Sidney Urquhart
- </p>
- <p> Leave it to the Japanese, who take their meticulously drawn
- adult comic books seriously, to publish the first cartoon
- treatment of the war. Japan's newest best seller is Iraq vs.
- U.S.-Led Multinational Forces, which features a variety of war
- scenarios. Released on the day the war started, the 300-page
- collection was an immediate hit. But some of the scenes of
- combat are improbable, showing Japanese and German soldiers
- participating in the conflict and U.S. forces staging a fake
- attack on fellow warriors to jump-start the war. The Japanese,
- however, prove to be inept on the battlefield. In one scene a
- band of soldiers engrossed in pornographic magazines take a
- wrong turn in the desert and manage to get out of their
- explosives-laden truck just before it accidentally blows up.
- </p>
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- </body></article>
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