SOURCE: A review of Brought to Light, in Publishers Weekly, Vol. 235, No. 7, February 17, 1989, p. 73.

[In the following review, the critic comments on the political focus of the omnibus volume containing the graphic novels Flashpoint and Shadowplay.]

In this long-awaited documentary comic book [Brought to Light, which collects two works], [Joyce] Brabner, coauthor of the comic book Real War Stories, and political illustrator Tom Yeates have produced a straightforward and competently illustrated journalistic account [Flashpoint: The La Penca Bombing] of the CIA's pivotal attempt to assassinate independent Nicaraguan contra leader Eden Pastora in a bombing at La Penca. The second story, Shadowplay, by celebrated comics writer [Alan] Moore, and the acclaimed illustrator/author [Bill] Sienkiewicz, is a masterly satiric expose of "The Secret Team" that came to direct the Reagan administration's covert war in Nicaragua. Moore, in combination with Sienkiewicz's viciously parodic drawings, has produced a scathing black comedy...