Wonderful review of the intellectual life of Russell that seems to get across the salient points of the intellectual quest in which he and the other main players were engaged.
Engagingly retold in comic form and with an emphasis on biographical detail and the human dimension it almost conveys the urgency of that quest. But, I have to say, does not fully do so to my mind.
I think the problem is the urge to know lived out in extremis and the effort of consuming a comic, which, all in all, is not at all in extremis.
Why would anyone be possessed of s sense of urgency about these issues, and how to convey that sense to the reader?
I think this is where the comic falls down. It is important not to dilute that urgency by deviating from the the object of the quest: epistemic and metaphysical truth.
However Logicomix does just this, for instance it is suggested that the story isn't that of failure and tragedy, but success in that computers have developed out of the ground work done by the main actors in the history outlined in the comic. This is only partially true in some ways, arguable in other ways and is certainly irrelevant. Metaphysics is given scant regard, possibly mentioned only once in the whole comic, whereas it is central to the theme.
If it were to be suggested that introducing metaphysics would have further diluted the central strand of the story and that it was not particularly important to Russell, through whose eyes this history is repeated, I would have to agree. But the issue remains of urgency, what inspires it, what it inspires and how it is resolved.
We now come to another aspect of the comic which I find tenuous, that is the way that chaos is juxtaposed to rationality. From the comic I am convinced that Russell did see things in this way, and a comic can only progress on its own terms so it is Russell who, for instance, draws attention to the destruction of Belgium when he visits after the end of the First World War.
[Chile - good attempt but ... perhaps connected with the nature of Russell's own dissociated state?]