{"id":1870,"date":"2014-01-04T22:20:59","date_gmt":"2014-01-05T06:20:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lunabase.org\/~faber\/blog\/?p=1870"},"modified":"2014-01-04T22:20:59","modified_gmt":"2014-01-05T06:20:59","slug":"review-trinity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lunabase.org\/~faber\/blog\/?p=1870","title":{"rendered":"Review: Trinity"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Jonathan Fetter-Vorm&#8217;s <em>Trinity<\/em> is a history of the development of the atomic bomb told in comics.\u00a0 It shows off comic&#8217;s power in relating history rather than providing escapist entertainment very well.\u00a0 It&#8217;s strengths are comics&#8217; strengths and so are its weaknesses.<\/p>\n<p>The main weakness is that compared to a pure text history of the same subject, there are less technical and historical details.\u00a0 Everything is told primarily through images, not as text or illuminated manuscript, so details must be thinner.\u00a0 The content difference is similar to the difference between reading a history and watching a documentary.<\/p>\n<p>The strength is in the power of those images to draw the reader into the narrative.\u00a0 Fetter-Vorm does a great job conveying the times through his depictions of places and events, and of capturing the minds of the protagonists through showing their faces and staging the various scenes.\u00a0 While few statistics and dates come through, <em>Trinity<\/em> communicates more context and personality.<\/p>\n<p>In addition to capturing the humans involved in this drama, Fetter-Vorm uses his images and layouts to make the science behind the bomb intuitive.\u00a0 By using the sorts of images and analogies that were used at the time, he also keeps his sense of time and place intact, even while he is explaining abstract physics. It&#8217;s a nice, powerful use of the medium.<\/p>\n<p>If you&#8217;re unfamiliar with the Manhattan Project and the personalities involved but have an interest, <em>Trinity<\/em> will draw you into that world powerfully.\u00a0 It may spur you to read in more depth later to get additional details.<\/p>\n<p>Strongly recommended.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jonathan Fetter-Vorm&#8217;s Trinity is a history of the development of the atomic bomb told in comics.\u00a0 It shows off comic&#8217;s power in relating history rather than providing escapist entertainment very well.\u00a0 It&#8217;s strengths are comics&#8217; strengths and so are its weaknesses. The main weakness is that compared to a pure text history of the same [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1870","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-reviews"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lunabase.org\/~faber\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1870","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lunabase.org\/~faber\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lunabase.org\/~faber\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lunabase.org\/~faber\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lunabase.org\/~faber\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1870"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.lunabase.org\/~faber\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1870\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1874,"href":"https:\/\/www.lunabase.org\/~faber\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1870\/revisions\/1874"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lunabase.org\/~faber\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1870"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lunabase.org\/~faber\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1870"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lunabase.org\/~faber\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1870"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}