The ambient dialogue of the generic IS members, especially at the beginning, was really incongruent with the tone in the rest of the book. It almost came off as goofy and made me think of tracts, which isn't really a comparison you want to make w/a graphic novel focusing on the struggles of people creating a democracy and surviving war and genocide. Personally would have put actual quotes or no dialogue for those bits. 

That said, it was otherwise quite good. For all of the horrors the people of Northern and Eastern Syria have faced, the author focuses on showing their resilience and hope for the future. 

An interesting and fast graphic novel overview of the structure of democratic confederalism and self-administration in Rojava- I especially liked the vignettes of stories peoples shared. As someone with some familiarity with Öcalan and Bookchin, and the last 10-20 years in the region, it sometimes felt like it skipped around and lightly touched on too many things in a sometimes confusing way. I also felt like it sometimes made too many attempts to appeal to a more centrist US audience. I would still highly recommend, esp for anyone interested in real life experiments with democracy and who wants to either dip their toes in or expand their learning about this region and these ideologies (everyone!)