Brought To Light: Shadowplay The Secret Team | Alan Moore and Bill Sienkiewicz
Brought To Light: Shadowplay The Secret Team
Author: Alan Moore and Bill Sienkiewicz
Added by: dave.m.giglio
Added Date: 2015-05-15
Publication Date: 1989
Language: eng
Subjects: Alan Moore, Bill Sienkiewicz, CIA, Central Intelligence Agency, Vietnam War, Iran-Contra, Graphic Novel, Christic Institute
Collections: folkscanomy miscellaneous, folkscanomy, additional collections
Pages Count: 300
PPI Count: 300
PDF Count: 2
Total Size: 142.81 MB
PDF Size: 48.71 MB
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Description
Shadowplay: The Secret Team written by Alan Moore and drawn by Bill Sienkiewicz with an introduction by Daniel Sheehan (general counsel of TCI). It covers the history of the Central Intelligence Agency and its controversial involvement in theVietnam War, the Iran-Contra affair, and its relationship with figures like Augusto Pinochet and Manuel Noriega. The narrator ofShadowplay is an aging anthropomorphic American Eagle, a bellicose retired CIA agent.
As Moore's first major work which was not superhero oriented, it was highly praised for its storytelling and Sienkiewicz's sometimes brutal art. Moore received praise especially for blending the sometimes overwhelming mass of details into a coherent and effective story. Over the years there have been rumors that Moore was unable to travel to America due to the CIA being annoyed at his story in Brought to Light. However this was supposedly proved to be a rumor and the "real" reason was due to Moore not renewing his passport.[1]
The story of "Shadowplay" is of an unseen character (presumably representing the oblivious American public in first-person view of the reader) in a bar, where he is approached by a man-sized, walking, talking eagle. The eagle, from the emblem of the CIA, proceeds to drink alcohol and, in a drunken stupor, divulge all the bloody details of The Agency's sordid past. Early on a reference is made to the number of gallons an Olympic swimming pool can hold, and the fact that an adult human body has one gallon of blood; from then on, the victims of CIA activities (directly or indirectly) are quantified in swimming pools filled with blood, each pool representing 20,000 dead. Sienkiewicz's dark, erratic, and blurry images keep the mood of Moore's narration (through the boozing eagle) unnerving, and hazily nightmarish.