A story to be told!

Nat Turner#3 & 4
Publisher: Image Comics
Writer/Artist: Kyle Baker


No words needed.
By John L. Daniels Jr.

Imagine waking up on a beautiful sunny morning and you are working in a field tending to your own vegetable garden with your children they are helping you and you are laughing and smiling with them knowing that the work is strenuous but the work is bringing you all together as a family. Then thundering hooves of horses are heard and you realize something is wrong you sense danger not for yourself but for your children. you are chased sort after like an animal. All the men and women around you are captured, stripped, branded, and kidnapped on a sailing ship and bought to a land you have never seen and sold as property to due the bidding of someone who has split your family up and now you are their property and tending to their gardens and vegetable fields.

Kyle Baker, the Eisner award-wining artist who currently draws Plastic man for DC Comics. Baker’s publishing co. presents a miniseries depiction of the legendary slave freedom fighter Nat Turner. This is not the first African-American comic Baker has drawn, he co-created and drew the Marvel graphic novel “Truth red white and black about the first African American Capt. America in WWII. Baker previously published graphic titles of Birth of a nation, and King David.

Baker’s artwork is visually stunning with pencils that depict the story of slavery and the coming of the life of Nat Turner. Emotionally stirring-eyes are the key to the soul-every panel visually will touch the soul of each individual reader in a certain way. The gazed and sympathetic look of a slave witnessing another person next to them while dying as a rat crossed her face along with panels showing slave parents throwing their baby into a shark infested water so he won’t have to endure the scowls of slavery is heart wrenching.
Nat Turner #1 story was expressive and engrossing from the first panel to the last in this first issue.
the storyboards filled out with b/w pencils was graphically detailed and contain only one non dialogue word bubble the dollar sign which In detail expressed the whole motivation of slavery.



Baker’s message was clear and soul wrenching. The actual story was taken from the testimony of Nat turner from the official court records of his trial. The historical and factual presentation is enduring and informative for any reader. The final chapters 3 and 4 recounts the bloodshed Nat Turner and his rebellion on the dismantling of slavery, and his grisly outcome.This is the final of four in the mini-series Nat Turner #1 is an incredible and historic journey that needed to be expressed.

Being an African American, I was deeply touched by this quality-produced title and its story, expressed so eloquently with so few words.

This title deserves an Inqusitive rating of 5.00.