Chocolate Underground
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A ripping yarn! In the best tradition of plucky British kids' adventures.
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Review: This is a lovely one-shot and worth the 20-30 minutes of reading. The premise --that all sweets are banned-- requires some suspension of disbelief, but the plot and characters, especially the main duo Smudger and Huntly, are executed extremely well. The art is clean and charismatic.
Chocolate Underground sweetly addresses a difficult political ecosystem but with none of heavy bitterness that would usually weigh down a moralizing work: prohibition, authoritarianism, recruitment of youth, passivity of the masses allowing a corrupt minority to maintain power, the risks of rebellion versus fitting in, and defeating censorship in a world where information is controlled and tampered with. You can relax and simply enjoy a world where children rebel against a flavorless lifestyle imposed on them by out-of-touch adults.
Chocolate Underground sweetly addresses a difficult political ecosystem but with none of heavy bitterness that would usually weigh down a moralizing work: prohibition, authoritarianism, recruitment of youth, passivity of the masses allowing a corrupt minority to maintain power, the risks of rebellion versus fitting in, and defeating censorship in a world where information is controlled and tampered with. You can relax and simply enjoy a world where children rebel against a flavorless lifestyle imposed on them by out-of-touch adults.
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