 Welcome to my channel and welcome to this fourth comic book reading set. Now, as we talked about in the previous video, we're going to be doing 32 comic book readings. There's 16 books that I chose and 16 books that you guys chose. And this comic book, A Life Force by Will Eisner, is one of the books from my list. Now, I haven't gone through and organized the list that we came up with, the 32 books and in which order I'm going to read them in. But what I really wanted to do was start off the reading set with this book. And what we're going to do is read a very short chapter because this is sort of a graphic novel format. Right? We're going to read a short chapter from this book, chapter 6 and it's seven short pages. Okay, and the reason I wanted to start off with Will Eisner's work is because I wanted to start off with a bang. And this book, these seven pages that we're going to read, pretty much do that. As far as I'm concerned, there's seven of the most brilliant pages published in comic books. Right? It's some of the best, some of the greatest work you'll ever see. The whole book is actually, and almost everything, Will Eisner's every done, is considered to be a phenomenal, right? And I haven't even come close to reading even a significant amount from Will Eisner's work. I've read some of his earlier stuff, especially some of the stuff he did in the Golden Age of Comics from 1940 to 1952. He published a series called The Spirit, and he's really, for some, he's in the comic book and medium anyway. As far as heroes go, he's best known for The Spirit, for that series I was publishing. But he got involved in The Medium in the mid-1930s at an early age. He got into the industry when he was 19 years old. He was one of the few, actually, from that period that was able to make a go-at at the comic book medium. He actually formed his first company in the industry when it was in his early 20s, and he was one of the few people that was able to make a good living off cartooning, I guess that's what it was really referred to back then, right? Because people who were making comic books, a lot of them anyway, they were also doing advertisement work and marketing work, and Will Eisner did a fair bit of that. So he got involved in the industry in the early 1930s when he was really young. He formed his own company. He created his first comic book series to a certain degree. His creation where it went for a long run was The Spirit from 1940 to 1952, and then for some reason he ended up taking a break at the beginning of the 1950s from the comic book medium. From what I understand, from what I've read, he didn't think that the comic book industry was going to evolve into what it is now, right? So he took a break from the comic book medium and started producing a lot of instructional material, some technical material for the US military and other companies as well, where he was working basically for the Pentagon. For one of the series that he was working on for the Pentagon, or for the military, he just prevented the maintenance manuals on how to do things, how to clean your guns, and how to... I haven't read any of that material. When I was looking up the history, I came across this information and I actually want to... I've already started checking online to see some of the books that he's published during that period from 1952, basically all the way to the 1970s. He worked on this type of material, some sort of tracking some of those books. I'm going to try to get my hands on some of them and if I do, or when I do, I'll definitely be doing a reading of those as well, okay? So he's huge at the beginning, from the beginning of the Golden Age. He was involved in comic books, did a little shift in his, I guess, career in the industry and went and worked for the military and other companies creating instructional manuals and stuff like this. And then in the 1970s, he came back to the medium through the comic book industry, right? Through the comic book format and what he did was basically start putting out graphic novels and Will Eisner is sort of credited with giving birth to the graphic novel format. So what he was doing was releasing some of the chapters, some of the pages from his graphic novels, serializing them, stuff like this, and then putting everything together and releasing in his graphic novel format. And that's what a life force is, that's what this book is, okay? And as far as what this story is about, this is part two of a trilogy. The first part of this trilogy is called The Contract with God and it was consolidated and printed for the first time in 1978. A life force was put together and printed for the first time in one complete format in 1988. But before that from 1983 to 1995, some of the material, I'm not sure if all of it, but some of it was released in chunks, right? Sort of serialized, I don't know if they call it serialized or not, but it was being released slowly. And then finally in 1988, he compiled everything together and printed this book for the first time. And the third part of this series is called Dropsy Avenue and it was published in 1995. Now I haven't read the first part and I haven't read the second part. I was lucky enough to get my hands on this about a year ago, I guess, because one of the local comic shops I go to, they have a box in the front or a few boxes in the front of the store where they've been for the last two years basically putting in graphic novels that they're selling a 50% off sale. So whenever I go to that comic book store, I pick up singles and stuff like this and I flip through the section where they have stuff that's for sale and I usually do that for most comic book stores and I sort of offer this store anyway and go through and if there's any graphic novels that I find interesting, I pull out. And what I did for this book, how I got my hands on this book was I pulled out a whole bunch of graphic novels I was going to buy with my singles and I sort of hit my budget right? And if you're buying comic books, you have to set yourself a sort of a budget otherwise you'll be hurting because it's not a cheap, it's not an inexpensive industry to get into or it's not an inexpensive hobby to get into because these books, you know, once you start buying, it ends up hitting your budget, right? So I usually have a budget when I go into a comic book store when I'm going to spend that day or that month and I had already hit my budget but I saw this thing and I picked it up and I wanted to read a Will Eisner book, right? Because I've read, I've read some Will Eisner before, I've read some of the stuff he did with The Spirit. I haven't even come close to reading a large chunk of that series. I've read some of the other stuff that he's done as well, just chunks, segments, but I'd never sat down and read one of Eisner's novels from front to back, right? So I picked this up and I sort of went, okay, you know, I've hit my budget, what do I do? So I flipped this thing around and I read the reviews of this, okay? And once I read this sentence, I put back one of the other graphic novels I had grabbed and I grabbed this one and I can't remember what I put back but I am very, very happy to have picked this one up, okay? So let me read you the sentence here and then we'll talk about what the story is about, flip through it and read the seven pages that I want to read, okay? Now let me show you what sold this book to me or what made me pick it up. And this is the sentence, it states, I think this is Eisner's best work of all time, a masterpiece. And I went, okay, that's good. And I read who had written this and this was Robert Crum, right? So Crum wrote that a life force by Will Eisner is his best work, right? And that's like, that's saying a lot. So that was the selling point for me. As far as what this story is about. Now this story takes place during the depression in the 1930s, okay? And I believe the trilogy is sort of chronicling the life of the characters here because I haven't read the first part and I haven't read the second part. I'm not 100% sure if the same characters appear in all three books, but basically all three books are the same format. We're talking about the life experiences of the people living in the neighborhood. And for this one basically is the life experiences of people living in the 1930s during the depression in the neighborhood in a tenement in the Bronx. And it sort of goes through and it starts introducing characters and how they interact with other characters and sort of flows in the show's interaction with one character, with this character and then follows that character where they're interacting with another one and then comes back, picks up with this character. So it sort of mingles, flows between what's happening with these people, okay? And it is absolutely brilliant. It is absolutely brilliant. So let's flip through this thing and take a look at some of the information at the beginning of the book where we always do take a look at, for all the readings that we've done, sort of take a look at the front page and here, let me take a read this front page to you anyway. And this panel is actually from at the early stages of the book. So we'll come across it when we're flipping through it. And this is one of the main characters in the book. And he's sort of stuck in an alley and he's talking to a cockroach because he's contemplating his life and stuff like this and he turns to the cockroach and says, so Mr. Cockroach, what are you struggling for? To maybe stay alive a few days more. And this is sort of this little, these few words are basically what this book is about. It's about life. Now let's just read some of the stuff. The Life Force, a graphic novel by Will Eisner and Will Eisner sort of been credited with giving birth to a graphic novel format, these type of compilations, huge accomplishment, revolutionary I guess, introducing this type of format to the industry. The Will Eisner Library from W. W. Norton and Company, Hardcover, Compilation, A Contract with God, Life on Dofsey Avenue, Will Eisner's New York, Rush, Paperbacks, and these are some of the other books available by Eisner. And just to give you how powerful his work is, I think it should be listed here, but Eisner is actually done an adaptation of Moby Deck, which when I was reading through the history of Eisner to make this video in preparation of making this video, I found that out and I'm going to go to my local comic book store and see if they can get their hands on it, because I've never read Moby Deck and wow, adaptation by Will Eisner, I'd love to get my hands on that and have a read through it. And here's some of the fine print, right? Copyrights 2006, so this is the 2006 print run of this, and this thing's originally copyrighted in 1983, 1984, 1985, and this is, those three years are 83, 84, and 85. I believe he released some of the material from this book, and then in 1988 is the first time that he compiled it all together and printed it as one graphic novel. Okay. And then for information about permission to reduce sections of this book, Mop-Ap-Ap on New York, manufactured by R.D. Dali, one of the vision, Library of Congress has cataloged the one volume edition as follows, Will Eisner, The Contract with God, Trilogy, Life on Dobssey Avenue. Oh, so that's the title, they gave it in Library of Congress, that's interesting, it varies a little bit, Contents of Contract with God, Life Force, Dobssey Avenue, okay. So the Library of Congress has taken all three of them and categorized them as one group, right? And I guess that's the ISBN number on it, interesting. And a whole bunch of other stuff. So what we're going to do, we're going to read Chapter 6, The Enchanted Prince. Wow, when I read those pages and it's further down, and I was being blown away as we flipped and I was reading this, right? And when I hit Chapter 6, when I read those pages, it was like, wow, wow, wow. So a list of new illustrations, a Life Force front piece, Last Insects, When Deep Purple Falls, page 140. So page 12 and 140 are four or three new pages, let's go page 140, let's have a read through that, let's see what was added. List of new illustrations. So this is one of the new illustrations that was added, When the Deep Purple Falls over sleepy garden walls. These could be sketches that they found later on possibly, right? About the author, people from Willis near, and these are the other two books, right? The Contract with God and Dobssey Avenue, The Neighborhood. And for sure all three of them are going to be the same neighborhood they're talking about because this place takes place at Dobssey Avenue as well. And we won't talk about Willis anymore from his history and stuff like this. And this is short, I read a fair bit about his history in preparation for this reading. And his work was somewhat great, he was friends with Bob Kane, the creator of Batman, he created some other stuff as well, Black Hawk, Black Hawk is fairly collectible, there's people chasing that Sheena Queen of the Jungle and a whole bunch of other characters that he created as well. And I highly recommend if you're interested in Willisner's work, have a read through his history, I'll give you a little bit of more appreciation of his work and who he was. And this is page one, next one is page two, the new illustrations that were added. And this page, what is this one, say a life force, who knows who knows why all the creatures of the earth struggle so to live, why they scurry about, run from danger and continue to live out of natural span, seemingly in response to a mysterious life force. The question is why? For what? Ask the insects, maybe they know. And one thing he does in this book, he has little sort of advertisements, classifies, headlines, stories appearing throughout the book with the date on there, right? So you can sort of get the history, get a feel for what was going on through that period. Let's have a read through this as well. I think that sort of sets the stage for us. So let's take a look at this. After the crash of the stock market in 1929, a great depression engulfed western society like a grey cloud, suddenly it seemed to a world rich, to a world which had been in gleeful pursuit of the good life, that living had become survival. Many hitherto on question assumptions now came under re-examination. Where they could, people relocated from farm to city or city to farm, seek your greener pastures like hunter-gatherers of old. But in the Bronx, on Dropsy Avenue, most tenement dwellers remained holding fast to their beach-head, simply because they had only just arrived from other more hostile places. They carried with them the tabernacle of a life force they had hardly understood. It was now the middle thirties, and that must be sort of the neighborhood, right? What did these things say? He's got a bank there, he's got rooms over there, so basically a neighborhood that we're going to take a look at, right? We're not going to read too much until we get to chapter 6, but let's take a look at some of the stuff anyway, and we'll read, we'll take a look at each chapter, the front parts of it anyway, the first page of it. It was 1934, and the quote is from Franklin D. Roosevelt. The withered leaves on industrial enterprise lie on every side. The savings of many thousands of families are gone. Unemployed citizens face the grim problem of existence. Franklin D. Roosevelt, from his first inaugural address, and the headliles, 1500 homeless living armory, 69th regimen houses poor, slump can affect people's health, increase in illness and reduction of income effect, rate of death they have here, simply two men faint of hunger in city hall while woman screams. Definitely gives you a pretty good idea of the setting of this place, right? Chapter 1, Is it the cockroach and the meaning of life? The tenement at 55 Dropsy Avenue lay quietly at anchor in its sea of concrete. The sounds of the city were diminishing. Already one could hear Russ Colombo singing from a radio on the second floor back. It was Friday and it was sundown, and the last of the regular congregants of the synagogue on the next block were walking home. There's people walking home here, you can see in the background, right? When the deep purple falls over sleepy garden walls, and those are the same words, right here, from page 140, right? They must be from the radio, who is this person here, the singing, that's already one could hear Russ Colombo singing, so I don't know who Russ Colombo is, right? But I guess those are the words from his lyrics. When the deep purple falls over sleepy garden walls, that was page 140, didn't notice on the first reading of this, right? I read this a few months ago for the first time, and I couldn't put it down. When I picked this up when I started reading, I read it in a few days, and whenever I had time off, I sat down and read this until I finished it. It was very addictive, it was very much for me, it was like Josako's The Fixer. Once I started reading it, I had to continue to read it, and you know, we put on videos on Josako's The Fixer, right? A couple of videos, actually, because I thought that was a magnificent graphic novel, as is this one. So that's chapter one, beautiful pages, splash pages, and just his work, right? Absolutely brilliant. One thing Eisner is really well known for is the animation of his characters, where their expressions, facial expressions, hand expressions, they say so much, so much. I mean, look at this page, the full view of it, and then you do come closer, and when you come closer, you don't lose detail, it enhances more. You can sort of tell where Frank Miller got all of this shadow work from, right? Well, Eisner has influenced so many people, so many people. Really happy that I picked up this book, I'm going to be reading a lot more of Eisner's complete collections, and at some point I'm going to read part one and part two. And what we're doing here is the character that we see here is one of the main characters, and he's basically, you know, a carpenter, he's out of a job, and I believe he was a carpenter anyway, maybe, I've read this a few months ago, so I might be mixing up my characters, but he's sort of walking home, he's trying to get a job, he's trying to make some money, he's very dramatic, and I believe in this page it just shows him sort of, I guess I have an heart attack, a lifetime of working for what, I ask you, he grasps his chest, falls to the ground, leans on the wall, I move my legs, my chest hurts, voy voy, I'm dying. The characters in this trilogy are Jewish, and there's some other religions and atheists and stuff, and it talks about their interaction, what not, and this is his wife doing the housework and what not, and he's actually in the alley that he's sitting, this is his wife doing the shaking the rug is right, so it's right underneath the window of his house, three, is he the cockroach fell to the floor of the alley from two flights up, so when the wife was shaking the carpet, right, the cockroach from their apartment fell to the ground right here, fell right beside the person that he was in the apartment of, right, and the guy sees him and takes a look at him, look at the facial's expression as he does, right, beautiful, and turns to the cockroach and says, so Mr. Cockroach, what are you struggling for to maybe stay alive a few days more, beautiful intro, right, so let's have a little flip through this, and what we're going to do, we're going to go all the way to chapter 6, and the pages that we're going to read are basically from a one-off character, is the main person that represented in that page, and a couple of secondary characters, well I guess they could be main characters, but one of them, one of the ones that he interacts with is a secondary character, so this is chapter 2, SKP, South, Southwest, across the Harlem River, where the Bronx ends, is Manhattan Island, there is the land of promise, and look at the pages set up, I guess this is the Bronx, this is where a lot of the poor people are living in the back, right, you see Manhattan sort of like a mirage, a dream, that's what everybody was working towards, right, witches, and then you know gives description of who some of these characters are that they're coming across, here's them, here's the wife, very dramatic as well, here's chapter 3, top floor back, lived God on Wednesday afternoons, Hebrew lessons, and preparation for bar mitzvahs were conducted by Rabbi Bin Son at reduced prices for those who could not afford the cheddar, cheater, reading up on the history of Eisner, he wasn't a religious man, he was proud of his heritage, but he wasn't a religious man, and there was a couple of reasons that were given, why he wasn't a religious man, my mum would bother getting up the dose, chapter 4, Shabbat skoy, last year, 1929, 1930, 1931, 1932, 1929, stock market drops 15 billion on October 29, set off worse than history, 16 million shares traded, 16 million was like so little compared to now, right, unemployment attacked the senate, recovering near depression peak over says Hoover, and Hoover didn't know what he was talking about, 1930, depression peak over, stock market up, hunger riots fail, as Bronx marches broken up by cops, Franklin D. Roosevelt wins in a landslide, anti-prohibition congress now, and O'Brien becomes New York's mayor, O'Brien becomes New York's mayor, so there's a lot of history in this book, a lot of it, 1933, New York's stock exchange remains closed on Monday, March 13, assassin's bullet misses Roosevelt in Miami, banks closed nationwide, script use planned, 100, 500,000 banknotes used at Penn station, people cashing them for tickets to Newark, Newark, president asks congress to slash civil service payroll by 500 million, right, and then you look at the headline back here 1930, recovery near depression peak over says Hoover, politicians, politicians, and take a look at this one, you know shows person in his room, tick tock, tick tock, no job, looks out the window, climbs to the little firescape thing, and he's about to commit suicide, there's a lot of people that killed themselves during that period, right, yo, Mr. Shatsbury, and he was looking for the job, and if I remember correctly, you know, he gets a little job here to do an errand or something, and that's sort of the beginning where he starts up making a little bit of money, and these are two of the other main characters, their lovers, the movement of those characters, look at that, absolutely brilliant ice skating, characters that we see here, these two characters and the guy, and on the last page, actually the girl as well, the seven pages that we're going to read, these characters are in there as well, but they're not prevalent, there's one off character that is, you know, he appears in majority of the pages of the seven pages that we're going to read, okay, and what these guys are doing are, you know, this guy has something that this guy wants, and he's going to send this goon to try to get it, okay, that's the story behind sort of the setting of the pages that we're going to read, and this is the guy, right, this is the goon, and that's his boss, so chapter five, the black hand, what does the muscle say to the kids, hey kid, this 55 drops you, haven't you, the kids say, and this is chapter six, there's Fernando, we got cockroaches again in the kitchen, I scrub, I wash, I clean every day, and still they come back, sprocco, sprocco, cockroaches, just to give you my experience with cockroaches, when I was going to university, you know, as a university student, you don't, well I think anyway, I didn't have very much money, and we lived in a one bedroom apartment, there were three of us living in one bedroom apartment, and the complex we were living in was actually, you know, nicknamed cockroach towers, and once you get cockroaches in a building, you'll never get them out, it's impossible, you see one cockroach, and there's hundreds, if not thousands in the walls, right, they're everywhere, so just a heads up, if you move into an apartment with cockroaches, if you're, you know, they're there, they're gonna be, they're everywhere, so if you see one, there's more, okay, and maybe someday I'll share with you guys some of those experiences I had as a student, right, there were amazing times, amazing times, so let's read through this, and just to give you a feeling of what's going on here, chapter six, these seven pages are sort of, they're not disjointed from the rest of this book, but they're, they stand out from the rest of this book, because this guy that we're going to read, you know, the story about him, he's a one-off character, okay, and when I read these seven pages, it reminded me of a documentary that I, that I watched a while ago, I should have looked this up, actually, I think it was called In the Realm of the Unreal or something like this, and it was a documentary about a schizophrenic person that, you know, had a day job as a janitor, I believe at a school or a building, that's the documentary, that's not the story, and at night time he would come home and he was sort of schizophrenic, so he had an imaginary world he was interacting with, and I highly recommend that documentary if you want a little bit more feel of what these pages are going to show you, okay, and that's what happened when I read this first page right away on my first reading of this, that's exactly what I thought about the documentary, and you'll see, you know, if you watch that documentary and read these pages, you'll see why, okay, so let's have a read through chapter six, The Enchanted Prince, and this is, this story is about this guy, this chapter is really about this guy, and then at towards the end he interacts with one of the secondary characters in this book, sort of gets involved in the story being told throughout the whole book, once upon a time a young prince was born in the Bronx, his name was Aaron, unhappily somewhere in the divine cauldron where mysterious forces fabricate life, something went awry for Aaron, and the soft circuitry of his brain in infinitesimal welding failed, oh it was only a tiny micro gap between connected tissue, a little cell perhaps that failed from, a little cell perhaps that failed to form or died too soon, but it left forever a flawed engine, an imperfect instrument, invisible and unsuspected, inside a healthy body, so Aaron grew up handsome and bright, a princeling who seemed destined to inherit a secure place in the kingdom of humankind, then one day in early manhood the chemistry that fueled his brain could no longer deal with the flaw, and a short circuit occurred, unfelt, unnoticed, but irrevocable, gradually unreasoned, terrible fear mingled with grandosal dreams in the turret boiling plasma of his mind, his intellect fought for control and this struggle brought him pain, soon the agony became so debilitating that he succumbed to it, and he withdrew into himself more and more, at last he lost touch with reality, in time the pain subsided, leaving him with the numb fear of people, finally he moved into 55 Dropsy Avenue, where he could live out his life in anonymity commonly provided by the tenement walls and sustained by small remnants from a remote relative, in this sanctuary, he could make his own world and populate it with creatures of his own invention, Aaron was now truly a prince in an enchanted kingdom, the window that he is seeing the world at, the light of the window shining behind them, beautiful power work, or beautiful splash page, absolutely beautiful, so much thoughtless, in his kingdom he lived, in a murky world populated by the great, the famous and the powerful, Aaron engaged in an endless dialogue, my calculations concerning the special laws of light, which I wrote in, your calculations are not quite correct, let me quote from your own thesis, Aaron replies right, often he wrote long letters of garbled brilliance and convoluted reasoning on subjects of vague import, letters that were never mailed but which nonetheless reflected a stagnant pool of intellect in an imprisoned mind, dear Mr. President, it appears that your recent statement to the press on the state of this society are quite naive, have you considered the forces of evil that he's been interacting with in his imagination? And as for them, the invisible sinister spies who maintained an inexplicable surveillance on him, they needed watching, so in this magical cocoon, dissentually from reality, Aaron dealt with the uninvited thoughts and the ectoplasmic images that filtered out of the gloom, sometimes in the night when he contemplated the magnitude of his infirmity, Aaron addressed God, why me, what in your grand design in your infinite calculus did this to me, I try but I cannot break out of the iron prison, my thoughts that started out so clearly and quickly in a heap collapsing of their own weight, it's not fair, there must be supreme intelligence, everything else is so geometrically ordered from the movement of the planets to the configuration of the structure of matter, if there is a divine mystery of life then I am a mistake, your mistake, how could you permit this, how could you, there is no reason, so therefore you are not different than all the other creatures that inhabit this room, and if so then you do not exist, then go, the next morning Aaron awoke to a sensation of tranquility, surprisingly the threatening images had left with the night, for the first time in a long while he could look upon the real world without fear, the remission for the consuming agony left him with a sense of strength and a feeling of curiosity, now he could go out into the real world to find reality, that's him, that's Shatsbury boss, okay Lupo, Lupo is the gangster that we saw, this guy, and Shatsbury was the guy that we saw at the beginning that was about to jump out the window right, so they are entering the story right now, and they've been staking him out, they've been following him because they want to rob him, that's the story right now, sort of give you a little background on it, how do you know he's carrying Bond's boss, Angelo's wife Maria, she told me, see he's going uptown, what's doing with Angelo, I thought he, nah, he's got a job now, so he's paying up, paying up the society, so I ought to talk to him, old lady, talk to the old lady, she came through, what we do, he's taking a subway, quick, you drive uptown to 55 Dobsi, you'll get there before him, better to take him there, suppose he gives me trouble, do what you gotta do, just get them bonds, he's carrying it, show boss drives up to Dobsi avenue right, there's a sign there, Dobsi, he goes and stands in an alley waiting for Mr. Shatsbury to come right, and he's got his gun with him, he comes there and down the alley, coming through, look out, the kid says, what do they call these things, box cars, nah, not box cars, it's like a skateboard with a box thing on it, almost runs down Aaron, Aaron keeps on coming, he looks at the goons, oh I'm in a sack, the goons are looking at them, what, what do you want, a bit of shoes on the way, look at this, just the facial expressions, beautiful, absolutely beautiful, pushes him back, I said beat it, let go my arm, get, let go, let go, you crazy son of a bitch, I'm gonna plug you, let go, you see the garbage can there, that's falling over and falls over here right, the flow from one panel to the next is brilliant, absolutely brilliant, blood splattered on the ground and slowly makes his way out, goes to his room, so much for reality, last page sort of brings it all together for chapter six, right, so let's read this last page for this chapter, oh Elton, some hoodlum, okay we gotta read this guy first, Becky, I came home for lunch as I promised, what's happened here, and there's the alley, there's the ambulance, there's the cops, the onlookers, Becky, I came home for lunch as I promised, what's happened here, oh Elton, some hoodlum shot himself in the, in the alley, come on up, I've got lunch ready, and these are the lovers right, there were skateboard arm, there were ice skating, there's two of the main characters, I can't stay long Becky, I've got these bonds to deliver to the uptown bank, sit down Elton, I made hot chicken soup, this bag of bonds you always deliver is it safe for you, nothing to worry about Becky, absolutely safe, and this was one, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight pages of this book, so literally two pages, actually these three pages, this and these two, and then the story continues, chapter seven, the revolutionary, in 1934 the winds of change swirled around 55 Dropsy Avenue of the Bronx, socialist party mass meeting broken up by communists, communist literature ban in Neymar, New York prison, international communist revolution is forecast, precursor to McCarthyism I guess, or sort of a build up to McCarthyism, chapter eight, upturn, stocks rise in response to S dollar policy, bread lies fade from dowry, so what year is this, I guess it's still 1934, 1935, job recover or site, sites improvement worldwide, lumber production continues advance, and the number one comes into play with the lumber mill, there's a lot of things going on here, but I'll leave the rest of the reading for you if you're interested, and this is a life force by Will Eisner, and we never actually read this for a day, I guess we'll read it now, the description of this book, we got too excited, went ahead with the reading, chronically not only the great crash of 1929, the great depression, but also the rise of Nazism and the spread of left-wing policies throughout the poorest neighborhoods of New York, Will Eisner recreates himself in a life force as Jacob Shtorka, whose existential search for the meaning of life reflects Eisner's personal struggle, in this classic graphic novel Eisner combines the miniaturist sensibility of Henry Roth with grand social themes of 1930s novelists such as Dos Poros and Steinbeck, let's read this from the forward, not only is Mr Eisner regarded as a master sequential artist, but his graphic novels made him the Einstein of the medium, he is a graceful and consummate artist whose work offer insight into the human condition, born in New York in 1917, Will Eisner made the author of the legendary comic strip The Spirit, the comic industry's top annual award, the Eisners, are named in his honor, his other books include a contract with God and Dropsy Avenue and a number of other books as well, right, of course, and that's the panel we read with the cockroaches, right? So I think the next reading I'm going to, well the next book that I'm going to read, not reading, but the next book personally I'm going to read from Will Eisner, at some point I'm going to read part one, part two of this, but I'm going to try to get my hands on the adaptation of Moby Dick that Will Eisner did, and that's our first reading, we're sort of kicking off reading set number number four with this book, Life Force with Will Eisner, and we've got 31 more books to take a look at, right? I hope you enjoyed this, I really do, and I'll see you guys in the next video, bye for now.