Terminal Lance Ultimate Omnibus - Hardcover

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0316412244 ISBN 13: 9780316412247

Publisher: Little, Brown and Company, 2018

Synopsis

The ultimate collection from Maximilian Uriarte, author of The New York Times bestselling THE WHITE DONKEY and creator of the world's most popular military comic strip.

The eagerly awaited Terminal Lance Ultimate Omnibus will finally deliver the complete collection that fans of the military's most popular comic strip have been clamoring for.

With over 500 strips, the collection will feature hundreds of the serialized comics published on terminallance.com, with additional comics previously published only on Marine Corps Times newspaper, and new, never before published comics. The Omnibus will also include Uriarte's signature blog entries and previously unpublished bonus material.

Covering a wide range of topics, including the rules governing the wearing of military uniforms, the most popular (and the most disgusting) MREs, the difficulty of keeping a long-distance relationship alive across thousands of miles, and the struggles marines face upon returning home, Terminal Lance Ultimate Omnibus provides a hilarious and deeply intelligent look into every aspect of life for American marines.

About this title

About the Author:

Terminal Lance Ultimate Omnibus was written and illustrated by infantry Marine and Iraq veteran Maximilian Uriarte, creator of the hit comic strip "Terminal Lance." Uriarte enlisted in the United States Marine Corps in 2006 at the age of 19 and served for four years. During his first deployment to Iraq in 2007 he served as an MRAP turret gunner and dismount of India Company's "Jump" platoon in the Zaidon region southeast of Fallujah. He deployed to Iraq again in 2009 as a billeted Combat Photographer and Combat Artist, then enrolling in California College of the Arts. In 2010 Uriarte created the popular comic strip "Terminal Lance" while still on active duty. The strip is now published in The Marine Corps Times and has grown immensely in popularity.

Review:

"The Marine Corps likes to present itself with dutiful seriousness. Terminal Lance is a counterpoint to that. It is a tribute to the service's permanent underclass, the young grunts who are too weary to feign enthusiasm anymore."
―New York Times


"Uriarte is the Bill Maudlin of millennials. His comic is earthy, cynical and profane, as anyone who has spent time around enlisted Marines would expect. But he also is surprising in his views. He is, for example, scathing about veterans who wail about how gays and women have ruined the Marine Corps.... [This] is probably the best book about Marine Corps culture in decades."
―New York Times Book Review


"Hilarious.... A winking self-awareness and compassion for the daily drudgery of the grunt's life make his collection more than a mere peek into a troop's insider experience--he's poised to become a Bill Maudlin for the social media generation."
―Publishers Weekly


"Terminal Lance is true and vital and hilarious."
―Houston Chronicle


"A clear-eyed view of life as a grunt.... The strips, drawn in a simple, unadorned style, sardonically depict the near-daily tribulations and occasional pleasures of military life.... A rare opportunity for those on the home front to get a sense of the true concerns and feelings of those deployed overseas."
―Booklist

Praise for The White Donkey:
Winner of the Marine Corps Heritage Foundation 2017 James Webb Award

One of Barnes & Noble's Best Comic and Graphic Novels of 2016

One of The Los Angeles Times' 10 Most Important Books of 2016

"It was 2010 when Uriarte, a lance corporal in the Marine Corps, created the online comic 'Terminal Lance,' which swiftly developed a fan base. Using some of the same characters, he created a more serious and involved graphic novel, THE WHITE DONKEY, based on his 2007 deployment in Iraq."

―Carolyn Kellogg, The Los Angeles Times

"A masterpiece."―Ray Olson, Booklist (starred review)

"Combines a casual, straightforward dramatic style with clear, no-frills art that draws readers into his characters' everyday experiences and then wallops them with the tragedy of ordinary life...Both respectful to the military and its role and sympathetic to the delicacy of the young soldiers, the story's power lies in a middle-ground view of the ongoing social conflict, seeking to bridge understanding on both sides."―Publishers Weekly (starred review)

"In many ways, The White Donkey is one long illustrated deployment journal.... Yet, tucked into the panels and frames, are those singular moments that, like a rock cast into a pond, send their ripples out almost infinitely-altering lives and ending others. The White Donkey follows the tremors, backwards and forwards, and manages to illustrate what feels like a 'true' war story and a lonely chapter in a war our country is trying desperately to forget."―The Washington Post

About this edition

• Publisher: Little, Brown and Company
• Publication date: 2018
• ISBN 10: 0316412244
• ISBN 13: 9780316412247
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 352