{"id":22346,"date":"2020-06-24T08:30:08","date_gmt":"2020-06-24T08:30:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.comicsreview.co.uk\/nowreadthis\/?p=22346"},"modified":"2020-06-22T16:54:49","modified_gmt":"2020-06-22T16:54:49","slug":"the-imitation-game-alan-turing-decoded-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.comicsreview.co.uk\/nowreadthis\/2020\/06\/24\/the-imitation-game-alan-turing-decoded-2\/","title":{"rendered":"The Imitation Game: Alan Turing Decoded"},"content":{"rendered":"

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\nBy Jim Ottaviani<\/strong> & Leland Purvis <\/strong>(Abrams ComicArts)
\nISBN: 978-1-4197-1893-9 (HB) 978-1-4197-3645-2 (TPB)<\/p>\n

Like every persecuted grouping of humanity, the LGBTQ community have far too many martyrs, but apart from Oscar Wilde and perhaps Harvey Milk, how many can you name? If any, I’ll bet Alan Turing tops that list\u00e2\u20ac\u00a6<\/p>\n

Spellbindingly scripted by Jim Ottaviani (who has similarly eulogised and dissected quantum physicist (Richard) Feynman<\/strong> and – in Primates<\/strong> – primatologists Jane Goodall, Dian Fossey and Birut\u00c3\u00a9 Galdikas) with compellingly effective art by Leland Purvis (Vox<\/strong>, Pubo<\/strong>, Vulcan & Vishnu<\/strong> and Suspended in language: Niels Bohr’s life, discoveries, and the century he shaped<\/strong> – a previous collaboration with Ottoviani), this full-colour hardback, trade paperback or eBook biography divides Turing’s life into three broad sections, incisively and winningly reviewed as if in a documentary.<\/p>\n

Events from his turbulent life are deftly mixed with faux \u00e2\u20ac\u0153interviews\u00e2\u20ac\u009d and candid disclosures from those who knew him – his mother, the computing \u00e2\u20ac\u0153girls\u00e2\u20ac\u009d at Bletchley Park, fianc\u00c3\u00a9e Joan Clark<\/em>, Professor Max Newman<\/em>, engineer and lab partner Bayley<\/em> and the weak, shady \u00e2\u20ac\u0153rent-boy\u00e2\u20ac\u009d who brought about Turing’s eventual downfall and death\u00e2\u20ac\u00a6<\/p>\n

‘Universal Computing’<\/em> covers the difficult, solitary boy’s childhood and college years, providing plenty of revelatory scenes showing how smart, obsessed and just plain different Alan Mathison Turing always was.<\/p>\n

‘Top Secret Ultra’<\/em> focuses on the war years that built Turing’s reputation as a cryptographer and inventor at the officially \u00e2\u20ac\u0153non-existent\u00e2\u20ac\u009d base where the Enigma Code was cracked and the battle against fascism won.<\/p>\n

The most painful and potent moments are seen in his post-war years at Manchester University, trying to beat the Americans in the ferociously competitive race to build Thinking Machines. Here he came under increasing stress as his open homosexuality – accepted as fact and ignored at Bletchley – gradually overtook and destroyed the life of the mis-socialised plain-speaking genius whose thoughts and writings resulted in the breakthroughs everybody now knows as ‘The Imitation Game’<\/em>\u00e2\u20ac\u00a6<\/p>\n

Rounding out the cruelly educational experience is a poignant and challenging ‘Authors Note’<\/em> touching on the still-unresolved mystery concerning Turing’s death, a vast ‘Bibliography and Recommended Reading’<\/em> list and a bewilderingly comprehensive ‘Notes and References’<\/em> section, covering everything from the panel structures of this tale to the mathematics involved in and comprising much of the book’s subtly beguiling make-up.<\/p>\n

This is an astoundingly inviting way to take in a true story of incredible accomplishment, dedicated passion and terrifying naivety, ending in a horrific loss to us all\u00e2\u20ac\u00a6<\/p>\n

Please be warned: this is categorically not an adaptation of the 2014 film.
\nText \u00c2\u00a9 2016 Jim Ottaviani. Illustrations \u00c2\u00a9 2016 Leland Purvis. All rights reserved.<\/p>\n

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By Jim Ottaviani & Leland Purvis (Abrams ComicArts) ISBN: 978-1-4197-1893-9 (HB) 978-1-4197-3645-2 (TPB) Like every persecuted grouping of humanity, the LGBTQ community have far too many martyrs, but apart from Oscar Wilde and perhaps Harvey Milk, how many can you name? If any, I’ll bet Alan Turing tops that list\u00e2\u20ac\u00a6 Spellbindingly scripted by Jim Ottaviani … <\/p>\n

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