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I have to say, I'm genuinely surprised and intrigued by the responses. The way I saw it, the choice was between having most Americans truly comprehend very little of what actually happened that day (and why), versus making the story accessible to them in a slightly simplified form. The graphic novel does not speculate as to what happened onboard the planes a la the film "United 93". It does not contain dialogue except items paraphrased or directly quoted from the text of the report. You might consider it slightly dramatized, but it really isn't a dramatization.
What it does do is the same thing the Report was designed to do: to explain exactly what we know about the plot, and to explain and evaluate the performance of civil and government agencies on that day. It does so with fewer words and more illustrations, but so what?
And again, this is not a retail product. Like the original report, it is freely available online and available at low cost through retail booksellers.
Has everyone who is condemning this effort actually taken a look at the book itself? (The full work is linked in the OP). I'm interested in hearing a fuller explanation of exactly what you all are objecting to. I didn't anticipate nearly this level of opposition to the project.
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