A review by mountsleepyhead
The Sheriff of Babylon, Volume 1: Bang. Bang. Bang. by Tom King

4.0

The Sheriff of Babylon sucks you into an incredibly murky Iraq War circa 2003 and tries to make some sense of the absolute chaos. Because of the differences in culture, the complications and complexity of the war in Iraq (and subsequently the War on Terror) are so often viewed as a black and white, us versus the Terrorists, and as a result we forget that real people live where we are fighting and bombing. The Sheriff of Babylon does a great job bringing humanity to both sides of the situation while trying to inform the readership of the situation while wrapping it up in a bit of a detective story. That is a lot of moving parts, and writer Tom King and illustrator Mitch Gerads do a great job telling an inherently messy story in an artful manner.