With Pope Francis direct appeal to Putin and Zelensky it feels like it's time to reread A Canticle for Leibowitz. The 1961 classic by Walter Miller is all about the consequences of nuclear war set upon a background of the responsibility that the Church takes in trying to keep things together. It's also funny as hell and if you haven't read it yet now is a great time to enjoy a marvelous writer at work.
Somebody could make a great manga out of it. However books allow for a much greater range of communication in a similar amount of space. A picture may well be worth a thousand words but those thousand words are likely very different for each person who views the picture. A thousand words in a book are the same thousand words for everybody who reads the book.
