Guy Delisle's Hostage: World building in a solitary room
Pretty good Graphic Novel ;) Cartoonist Guy Delisle dropped this back in 2016- "Hostage", about the abduction of Doctors Without Borders employee Christophe André. André was posted just outside Chechnya in 1997. One night while alone in the team dorms, men with machine guns drag him outside and plop him into a car with a bag on his head. They drive around a bit, walk through the woods a bit, cross an international border a bit, then bolt the man to the floor in a dark room. This begins a comic book that makes a truely exciting story out of a guy sitting in a room eating, drinking, sleeping. Yup, you heard it here fellow nerds... Page after page of André pondering if people are searching for him and weighing the potential of escape somehow comes togethers as a legit page turner. André patiently waits as opportunity after opportunity passes him while he attempts to understand his abductors speaking in a language he does not understand. My only gripe is that a full page is...