Louisiana's wildlife was utterly destroyed through decades of oil drilling off the gulf coast of this area. the huge oil spill in 2008 is covered in a Steve Duin graphic arts book looking to explain this situation to teenage readers but it falls short. The book falls short because it is short and its drawings are bad. in addition the story lines and dialogue is boring making this book a quick read that doesn't explain as much as it can to the reader of this huge tragic disaster. The dialogue between the characters is often mundane and doesn't really even measure much of the consequences of the Deepwater Horizon oil spill
I think the author could of somehow pointed out that life in this region wasn't so hot before the oil spill and perhaps this is an explanation to the apathy of the local population to this spill and not demanding more action against Exxon mobile from their local governments. As the book shows it was outsiders from other regions of the country that seemed to care more of these disaster than the people living in and around this coastal areas and the dumming down of the population and accepting their crestfallen surroundings. as a bird I was most pleased with the coverage of the oiling of brown pelicans and how many hundreds of biologist activists volunteered their time in rubbing and scrubbing the few pelicans that survived this harrowing ordeal and getting their feathers stuck with oil. aside from this I was really disappointed in this comic book that I thought would really get the progressive message out on what these dirty energy companies are doing to habitats of wildlife and people who rely on it.
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