The Other Side Special Edition (Hardcover)

from LiteraryFeline

I topped my Vietnam reading spurt off with Jason Aaron's The Other Side, a graphic novel following the stories of two soldiers, one a U.S. Marine and the other from the People's Army of Vietnam. Illustrated by Cameron Stewart, the novel is both beautiful and harsh. For the American, Billy Everett...

from iftyzaidi

Set during the Vietnam war, this haunting graphic novel follows two young men, one an American and the other Vietnamese as they join their respective armies, are trained and sent off to war to kill each other. The art and colouring is fantastic and captures the increasingly hallucinatory quality ...

from bensdad00

An interesting graphic novel contrasting two recruits and their experiences during the Vietnam War...on opposite sides of the conflict.

from villemezbrown

I read this in comic book format when it originally came out years ago, and I had a vague memory of being unimpressed. But in the years since, I have come to admire Jason Aaron as a writer so I thought I should use the reissue of the collection as an excuse to revisit a story I might not have ful...

from Unkletom

This is a gut-wrenching look at the war in Vietnam as seen by the soldiers on both sides. It is a painful read that also does a beautiful job of portraying the psychological damage war does to those forced to endure it. It is not for the squeamish but I highly recommend it. Note: This graphic n...