 White Box Artistic Director Juan Puntes told "WWD" that he had not seen similar violence after an opening since the 1970s and attributed it to the politically charged nature of the graphic novel and its images.Reviews of "The Art of War" have been mostly positive.Critics praised it for its strong characters, visual intensity and experimentation, and social commentary on the modern financial industry and China-US relations, while others criticized it for being too dark and violent.