Riding the Toronto subways in the early '80s, nothing pleased me more than finding religious pamphlets—comic books, really—on the trains. Even though their content was predictable they were wildly entertaining, and best of all: They foretold the future.

Or someone's idea of the future, anyway—one in which those who did not find salvation in Jesus Christ suffered eternal damnation. Being Jewish, the text didn't really speak to me. The illustrations, however, remain etched in my mind 30 years later, such was their power.

"Health Care Reform" by Jonathan Gruber, HP Newquist, and Jonathan Schreiber is an attempt to distill the 1,900-page Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act signed into law by President Obama in 2010 into a common-sensical, easy to understand book in graphic-novel form less than a tenth of the length. Informative, it's also a lot of fun.

Read the full review in the Boston Globe:

http://www.bostonglobe.com/arts/2011/12/19/health-care-reform-jon...