I'll give thumbs up to most anything that preaches to the importance of the freedom of speech, and this book touches on a lot of exciting topics in that regard. But at the same time, be aware that this graphic adaptation of the author's The Fight for Free Speech: Ten Cases That Define Our First Amendment Freedoms is a text-heavy slog. Soooo many lawyers and judges are crammed into the pages as cursorily drawn talking heads spouting leaden balloons of legalese from cases going back decades, a century even, that still hold sway over what free speech means today.

The art doesn't do much to make the material dynamic. Many of the images, especially the ones obviously referenced from Google searches, are just copied and pasted from page to page, so we often get to see the exact same talking head two or three times. The panels that aren't portraits look like they could be drawn from a stock image database or a high school kid's first PowerPoint presentation.

Still, important topic and lots of good information. ( )