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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Alzrius" data-source="post: 9415921" data-attributes="member: 8461">I just finished reading <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/9/11_Commission_Report#Adaptations" target="_blank">The 9/11 Report: A Graphic Adaptation</a>, which is exactly what it sounds like: an official graphic novel adaptation of The 9/11 Commission Report.This was another item that's been on my shelves for years (around fifteen, I want to say), having been gifted to me back when I read a lot more comics than I do now. I got around halfway through it before putting it down, so with my recent push to complete things which I've left unfinished, it seemed appropriate to polish it off now.While I haven't read the full report, it's self-evident that there's less information here than you'll find there; even if a picture is worth a thousand words, you can't squeeze over five hundred pages of text into a hundred and thirty-five pages of mostly illustrations without a considerable amount of detail being lost. Even so, this is a decent overview of 9/11 in terms of what happened, how it happened, how it was possible, and recommendations for what should be done going forward. If the size of the full report seems too intimidating, this is a good alternative.As a note in that regard, I recall hearing (around when this came out) that the entire reason an official graphic novel version was greenlit was because the 9/11 Commission wanted as many Americans as possible to be exposed to their findings, which is notable in that I'm not aware of any other such Congressional findings being adapted into another medium. I'll also note (simply because this is the only other thing I can recall about this) that there was a quote (which I can't source now) from the artist, saying that he couldn't bring himself to illustrate people jumping from the World Trade Center (which I can sympathize with).</blockquote>

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