Mind Afire

I supported the Kickstarter for this book, and what a great book it is. I'm glad to have a physical book in this case, because the layout is more of an illustrations-accompany-text than a traditional comic book format, so I think a .pdf layout would have been a problem. The drawings are lovely, the writing is mostly well done and straightforward. The few detours toward flowery language were appropriate, I think, given the interestingly complex character that Tesla was.

I learned a lot about Tesla, and enjoyed the illustrations–the one thing that was lacking was a more detailed, more involved description of the technical details regarding AC and DC, I thought. Just a preference–I would have dug a few intricate, close up diagrams of the actual AC engines–even though the kind of sparse schematic drawings were also cool and interesting.