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Anthology of comics covering 18 different American Cult groups. I learned about cults I'd never heard of, learned institutions I take for granted are actually cults (or cult-based), & gained new perspectives on cults I already knew something about. The Jonestown comic by Carey & Freiheit was especially interesting. I never knew that Jonestown may have been located where it was because of a development scheme partly cooked up by the Guyanese Government, & that Jonestown was near the site of another Cult's attempt to colonize the area, which also ended in a mass suicide. The hugest revelation to me was the evidence that the Jonestown “mass suicide” may have been a mass execution. On a side note, the use of the phrase “drinking the Kool-aid” to mean whatever it means in American English stopped making any sense to me once I learned that it came from the Jonestown Kool-aid. I don't think I've ever heard the phrase used to indicate someone is being forced to drink the poison. Any of these cults probably could each have their own comic books about them. I definitely could have read more about any of them, except maybe the Manson Family. I feel like I've heard enough about them. I especially liked the comics that were from the perspectives of the people who joined or grew up in a cult, so that means I should probably check out Jesse Lambert's & Lonnie Mann's memoirs.