A review by storytimed
Banned Book Club by Kim Hyun Sook, Ryan Estrada

4.0

Spoiler

YA graphic novel about the Korean student protests of the 80s! I learned a lot about the fight against martial law during that time

EDIT: THIS IS A MEMOIR!!! Omg. I am even more impressed by it now. How very cool.......... 
There's a lighter touch to the depiction: yeah, bad things happened and people get tortured, but this comic never loses sight of the fact that............. these are university kids and they're kind of stupid and idealistic and they do silly things
There's a moment where our protagonist gets interviewed by the military police and she throws them off the scent by pretending to be totally gossipy and boy-crazy and oversharing about her love life which was FANTASTIC
& the end of the comic is a reunion between our protesting buddies but years later in their adult lives, now protesting again for the resignation of Park Geun-hye. Bittersweet but also sort of... affirming? In a "we will always have to fight, but we will always fight" kind of way