Apache Delivery Service

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Apache Delivery Service by Matt Kindt

My rating: 3 of 5 stars


I will say I was not a fan of the art at all. It has that muddy quality I see far too often in American graphic novels. That said I did enjoy this horror short story which is what it is. I might have liked it to be a bit longer to flesh out the characters because there were interesting ideas that got truncated.

Apache Delivery Service is actually the code name for the main character who is actually Navajo and wants a) to be called by his own name b) for the racism to stop or at least call him Navajo and not Apache c) to not really be in the war at all d) again to stop the racist ideas that all Indians are great at tracking because his commander has definitely bought into there being something nearly mystical about him and it pisses him off.

We see hints of his past as a teen, not even being able to hunt deer without throwing up. He prefers going out on long recon missions to get away from the others in his troop (probably needs a break from all the racist comments slung his way). When he's out, he falls into a trap and ends up in the hands of a rather refined man who is not a soldier but rather a treasure hunter looking for a gold hoard. He has been watching Apache and wants his help to find the gold.

As the blurb suggestions there are a lot of bodies around the gold and for more than good reason which is all I want to say about that because I wouldn't want to spoil it.

I thought the ending was rather clever.



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