Run: Book One. By John Lewis, Andrew Aydin, L. Fury, and Nate Powell. Abrams ComicArts. August 2021. ISBN: 978-1419730696. 160 pages. Hardcover, $24.99.

March. By John Lewis, Andrew Aydin, and Nate Powell. Top Shelf Productions. September 2016. ISBN: 978-1603093958. 560 pages. Trilogy Slipcase Edition, $49.99.

“Everybody can read comics” (Lewis et. al., 2021, p. 82), a young John Lewis notes in the pages of his posthumous graphic novel Run: Book One. The comment refers ostensibly to the educational comics produced and distributed by the Student Non-Violent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) in Lowndes County in 1966, but ultimately it echoes, with self-reference, an acknowledgment of the rhetorical work Lewis hoped to complete, first with his award-winning graphic novel series March (2016) and then with the follow-up series Run. Both series are co-written by John Lewis and Andrew Aydin; Nate Powell, the cartoonist for March, returns to illustrate the prologue for Run before handing off the reins to L. Fury. Run is inextricably tied up with March; thus, this review reflects necessarily on the earlier series as well as the newest publication.