Andre the Giant: Life and Legend by Box Brown - ★★★★

continuing my series of Box Brown historical graphic novels, I read the Andre the Giant graphic novel. I've always been a big fan of Andre drying of course from the Princess Bride movie, but awesome in general, the way that his kindness comes through despite his unbelievable size. The book had all the usual stories about Andre the Giant that I'd heard from the The Autobiography written by the star of The Princess Bride, but it also had more it had more details about his life and reminded me of the recent popular Andre the Giant documentary which I also saw dogs Andre the Giant lived a hard life he had to drink a case of beer to get drunk. He had to drink entire pints of alcohol to deadened his gigantic form, which was constantly growing and constantly stressing him out and causing him pain. I enjoyed the ties in with professional wrestling, the idea of fooling the crowd keeping the secret and how to handle a character as large as Andre only Vince McMahon. I believe Sr. had the idea to take them on tour, make sure that he doesn't get stuck in one town so it's a big deal when the giant comes to your town, making Andre into an even bigger star than he was before. I was impressed to see Andre handing the title over to Hulk Hogan and allowing Hulk Hogan to win the match and putting him over and really giving a lot of the power that Andre had and then sharing it with Hulk Hogan who was pretty much the wrestling champion of my youth. A great book these Box Brown Books have been a joy to read both history and comic book really quick flipped right through it. That'd be the only thing is that you don't get a lot of bang for your buck. But maybe for young people that don't want to read. Get them to read one of these and they get a great history, as well as a comic book.

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