Bizarre School Essay

Whilst the authors love for the topic is clear and genuinely quite affirming in parts, it's worth being clear that this book is not a reliable history or analysis of the subject. It is a love letter to the franchise, to some parts in particular, and there are factual errors and baffling omissions seemingly taken to extoll a particular narrative and avoid any facts that would appear to contradict it.

The authors push opinions so unusual, and with such overwhelming fervour, they could be suspected of deliberate sensationalism. The book is very poorly structured, jumping around across different types of media and different eras. At its worst this causes repetition of several parts. On occasion there appears to be padding, such as when they exhaustively list all the different groupings comic strips have been published in.

In short, this is best viewed like a child's school essay. It's not complete, it's not always coherent, it's not always correct, it shows little knowledge or reference to wider contexts around the media in question (bar one fleeting reference to 2010s intelligence leaks), and the whole thing reads as a desperate attempt to defend an unpopular opinion by pushing a flimsy narrative. It's a listen only possibly recommendable for how bizarre it is - 2/5.

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