About Matamoros
December 11th, 2007 . by DariusChuck Sobietti was a seventeen-year veteran of the U.S. military. He’d seen it all - Gulf War I, Somalia, Bosnia, Afghanistan - but nothing in his experience could prepare him for one fateful day in Iraq and its aftermath.
Part political thriller, part war story, and part “classic” action comic book, Matamoros follows one of America’s heroes in the “Long War” - an ordinary guy who discovers that only extraordinary situations exist when the enemy is a protean entity which refuses to adhere to the laws of war or the laws of civilized nations.
Written by Sleet and Darius LaMonica, and illustrated by John Cox of the Cox & Forkum political cartoon team, Matamoros is the first comic book focusing on the U.S. military’s fight against radical Islamists.
Looking forward to this, guys, sounds really good.
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Tell me something, is the name matamoros taken from the name given to Saint James, (Santiago)?Legend says died a martyr in the Holy Land and was buried in Compostela (spain) and whos name was the battle cry for the early portuguese and castilla armys in the 12th century against the arab ocupation of the iberia aka Al Andaluz and whos victories led to name the Saint as “matamoros” or Arab Slayer?
Afonso - yes, you are correct. That’s where the name of the comic book comes from. I can’t give away the part of the plot that leads to the historical reference, however.
Translations of Islamist documents indicate that Islamists are extremely angry about “losing” Spain 500+ years ago and they want it back as part of their new Caliphate and even bin Laden talks about the “tragedy” of al Andalus (the nerve of that S.O.B.). These radicals want to re-fight the historical jihad of the 8th century and the West had better recognize that.
Ok, ít could only be somthing like that. As for the Al Andaluz reference made by Bin Laden, shortly after the Madrid bombings, there’s a couple of things to be taken into account: The portuguese kingdom drove the arab occupation to the sea in the late 13th century and began conquering the north africa territory after that - the ideia was to establish security to the kingdom by driving the arab princes back to the midle east setting free the african region and seezing the trade routes - but spain (Castilla and other kingdoms like Aragão) only became whole much later with the defeat of the Granada Caliphate in 1492. If they act like the Crusades where yesterday imagine waht these people think about the fall of Granada?! Yes, the lection result in our neighbour Spain where a terrible defeat to freedom, bouth Spain and Portugal should be aware that war is a lot closer than we think.
Congrats for the book, beeing a fan of Cox&Forkum for a long time I’ll be reading it soon.
Cheers
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