After breathless fights, the Sangerye family arrives in volume 3 at the end of their fight against the demons. Discover with Bitter Root how an African-American family will save the United States.
All against one
The first volumes of Bitter Root showed the actions of the Sangerye in the United States in the 1930s. For three generations, this African-American family has struggled with the Jinoo demons. Indeed, whites under the influence of hatred metamorphose into demons and attack all minorities. However, Grandma Etta created potions that could reverse the process. This struggle is far from easy, as her husband and almost all of her children died fighting these demons. So it is the grandchildren, Blink, Cullen, Ford and Berg, who continue the fight. The twists and turns in Bitter Root are numerous, because the previous volumes have shown that there is another world where these monsters come from. It was in this purgatory that the reader discovered that some of Etta's children survived. On Earth, in addition to hatred, punishment could transform human beings from all communities into smarter and more resilient Inzondos. These two groups of monsters are puppets of an Adro devil seeking to dominate the world. New threats also arise when nature is touched by hatred. The roots of hatred that were a parable are embodied in reality. To defeat these combined forces, the Sangerye will have to fight with their weapons, but also against their internal demons, but not all will survive…
Bitter Root, a little-known series to discover
Written by David F. Walker, Chuck Brown and Sanford Greene who also provides the drawings, Bitter Root has been nominated several times and awarded at the Oscars of the American comic. However, the series is still too little known in France. This third volume, however, concludes a magnificent series in style. Over the episodes, the fights are more and more massive. The Sangerye family faces a few monsters and then a monstrous mass during the attack on New York, a whole world in purgatory and finally a major demon in the last volume. Bitter Root is also an anthem for tolerance and solidarity of minorities. White people bewitched by demons are a parable of the racist system that infected the country at the time, but also the individual racial hatred of today. The narrative does not make African Americans mere victims of this system, as Sangerye's family fights hate. Through them, Bitter Root demonstrates that a middle class and a cultured bourgeoisie was formed as early as the 1930s. She created a whole culture including jazz and Harlem Renaissance literature. However, the narrative goes beyond communities to become humanistic, as grief also mutates African Americans. In different neighborhoods several minorities organize and gather. In volume three, the scenario expands the historical horizon even further by evoking Mein Kampf and the Holocaust. Published by HiComics, Bitter Root closes in this third volume with a superb final moral: it is through the union of all beings and all knowledge that we can fight against evil. The closing text of this last episode announces that it is only a temporary end. Indeed, the characters so numerous and interesting that there would be enough to write many side stories. You can find the chronicles on the beginnings of the series on this link or a chronicle on the Plot another horror and family story.
