I read and re-read the novel many times and when I saw this book I had to check it out.
Graphic novel follows the same story line and is very faithful to the novel itself. In terms of the graphical presentation it has that Jeremiah look-and-feel, grainy at some points almost pointillist drawing when it comes to people but clean for anything else (machinery, cities and nature). It is a very distinctive art specific for European, especially Belgian comic artists.

Story wise this is novel in graphic form (minus the episode on Marygay Poitter's farm but if I understand correctly this part was usually skipped and is available only in editions with original text). Story is one that never loses on importance and sounds true for every age. This is story of people drafted to fight in conflicts on the other end of the galaxy, conflicts they know nothing about how and why they started. People sentenced to literally leave everyone they know behind since due to laws of physics while they age in normal manner, everything they left behind ages much faster. Fighting in the war spanning thousands of years against the enemy they never have the chance to familiarize with and understand these soldiers will try the survive not only the enemy but also their own army - from incapable officers to technology developed for war that might be even more deadly to its users than enemy ever could be. Finale is truly heartbreaking but so familiar to anyone who has own experiences with conflict (either personally or through relatives and friends).

But even more important part of the story is the one about society itself. Fired up by media and politicians unable to handle the situation (so familiar these days) society wants action, action, action (again, sooo familiar these days) and is ready to send its own to fight in war but then, due to great distances and remoteness of the conflict, they forget them and very fast shun them (again that end is just remarkable). Picture of the modern society is portrayed very well and ever present themes are there - unemployment, violence, crime, social institutions that do not help people except through sheer power and enforcement, society open to everyone and closed to so many to the very extreme (enforcing no need to work (that ends with people going mad or barely surviving on rations provided), medical care that separates the population into very rich and forever living, those to be kept alive and those to be left to die depending on their "usefulness to society" (brrrr), universities that allow people to join them only if they are deemed worthy).

All of this causes our weary soldiers to re-enlist and go back to the front-line because they now share more with the enemy than with their own culture and people. They are looked at as relics and society hates them for a very single reason - they know they need them but how to accept this notion in this brave new world (again, something that is soooo familiar today).

It is obvious that all these themes are ageless and today, to be honest, they hit very close to home. Highly bureaucratized government machine paired with the science that becomes more of a politics driver than science is a truly terrifying picture. Remote warfare where society does not see the corpses and death so is willing to tolerate it (although publicly being quite opposed to it), forced eugenics and political decisions that end not in evolved and improved humanity but in split humanity is truly something to be worried about.

Excellent story and great visual presentation. I am more of a fan of written word but with this book you cannot lose - if you read the novel you will enjoy this comic, if you first read this graphic novel I hope you will also pick up the original novel (for those small details that might be lost in visual presentation and there are many).

Highly recommended to fans of military SF and SF in general. ( )