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Title: Art of War (Asiapac Comic Series) by Chih Tsai Chung ISBN: 9-9719856-0-8 Publisher: China Books & Periodicals Pub. Date: 01 May, 1986 Format: Paperback List Price(USD): $9.95

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Average Customer Rating: 3 (1 review)

Rating: 3
Summary: Missable
Comment: Larry Gonick has proven that nonfiction comics can be well-drawn, informative, and entertaining. This one is, at best, informative. Even then, it's not the best translation of Sun Tzu that I've seen.

Every comic has a visual style, and I don't need to like it to respect it. It just has to show craftsmanship and aptness to the text. This fell down seriously on craftsmanship, partly by replicating panels or parts of panels (e.g. pp 13/27 and 77/83). Duplication is fine when there's good artistic reason for it, but this just looked like laziness.

The English was generally good, but had a few rocky moments. For example "Good maneouvres is like water ..." - someone should remind the translator that agreement between nouns and verbs are important.

Still, the Sun Tzu text is strong enough to overcome even this rendering. One phrase had real meaning today: "Attack only to win. Don't move in if there is nothing to gain." I'm writing this during the reign of Pres. Bush the Second, while his Iraqi war is still festering. How I wish that Bush knew today what was common knowledge somewhere around 300BC.

This book has value only for keeping Sun Tzu alive in the Post-Literate society. If the reader doesn't require picture books, though, I'd suggest a different translation.