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Following Congressman Lewis' early career from the Freedom Rides to the March on Washington, this is if anything even more powerful than the first volume, and the unflinching depiction of the response by the racist authorities even more harrowing. Though I did find something especially inspiring in all the controversy over Lewis' climactic speech, which you assume is going to have its teeth pulled by the various objectors to this word or that line. Yet when you compare the original draft included at the back, with the delivered version as found in the comic proper, the latter is genuinely a better call to arms. Non-violent arms, of course, though there is a current here in which Lewis gets increasingly uneasy with the fracturing devotion to that principle, while obviously being able to empathise with the frustrations driving it.

Needless to say, the framing scenes of Obama's inauguration and the progress they imply don't get any easier to read from the further framing level of 2017's tangerine nightmare.