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Post by Deleted on Jun 10, 2014 21:44:03 GMT -5
I don't think anyone has mentioned Sam Glanzman yet. HE really came to my attention a year or so ago with the strip he did in the Joe Kubert Presents showcase mini DC did, but I have tracked down a bunch of other stuff he's done since. Really good stuff. Like a few others here, I was a late comer to war comics. I had one random issue of G.I. Combat and one random issue of Combat Kelly from Marvel, but the closest I came to reading anything war related regularly was the Invaders. In high school, I started picking up The 'Nam as it was coming out, and that was a brief flirtation with reading war comics. It wasn't until I read Eisner's Last Days in Vietnam that I really started to gain a real appreciation for the genre, and when I got turned on th Joe Kubert's stuff, I started exploring more and more different war titles.
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Post by Ish Kabbible on Jun 10, 2014 21:51:44 GMT -5
I recall Vietnam Journal by Don Lomax getting good reviews in the late 80s
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Post by fanboystranger on Jun 10, 2014 21:56:49 GMT -5
I don't think anyone has mentioned Sam Glanzman yet. HE really came to my attention a year or so ago with the strip he did in the Joe Kubert Presents showcase mini DC did, but I have tracked down a bunch of other stuff he's done since. -M All the USS Stevens stories are great. Well worth tracking down. |
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Post by Deleted on Jun 10, 2014 22:27:37 GMT -5
I recall Vietnam Journal by Don Lomax getting good reviews in the late 80s That series has been pretty much universally praised by people who are really into war comics. I haven't read any yet, but definitely plan to. It supposedly blows The 'Nam out of the water. |
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Post by hondobrode on Jun 10, 2014 22:42:23 GMT -5
I recall Vietnam Journal by Don Lomax getting good reviews in the late 80s Excellent call. LOVE all his stuff BTW, Wayne Vant Sant did some nice Civil War era stuff, with a John Severin feel. |
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Post by fanboystranger on Jun 11, 2014 7:37:01 GMT -5
I recall Vietnam Journal by Don Lomax getting good reviews in the late 80s That series has been pretty much universally praised by people who are really into war comics. I haven't read any yet, but definitely plan to. It supposedly blows The 'Nam out of the water. It does, although there is some very nice Golden art in The 'Nam. Vietnam Journal could really benefit from a collection, preferrably a nice HC. I'm not sure it would sell like gangbusters with the normal comics crowd, but it could get some attention in academic circles. |
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Post by DubipR on Jun 11, 2014 7:54:09 GMT -5
George Pratt's Enemey Ace. His watercolours are so so nice but the script i found even better. I remember that hardcover. Good pull.
Another one I'd add, The Light Brigade by Peter Tomasi and Peter Snejbjerg.
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Post by paulie on Jun 11, 2014 8:45:29 GMT -5
I agree with most of the picks here. It's hard to go wrong with Blazing Combat, the Losers from Our Fighting Forces, and masterpieces like Toth's Burma Sky or the many fine Sgt. Rock stories from Our Army at War, and the Kurtzman work from Frontline Combat are classic. Kubert's Enemy Ace is of course top notch, but I also want to extol the gorgeousness of John Severin's take on Enemy Ace from the Unknown Soldier run from the early 80's. This may be the best work of Severin's career. Severin does full art chores in this thing of beauty. I never knew John Severin did the Enemy Ace series. I'm totally going to hunt all of these down. |
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Post by fanboystranger on Jun 11, 2014 9:50:51 GMT -5
George Pratt's Enemey Ace. His watercolours are so so nice but the script i found even better. I remember that hardcover. Good pull.
Another one I'd add, The Light Brigade by Peter Tomasi and Peter Snejbjerg.
Light Brigade is excellent, but I'd only nominally consider it a war comic. There's the whole supernatural angle that overshadows the WWII setting, in my opinion.
That's also why I'd have a hard time rating Grendel: Devils and Deaths (despite its excellence) as a war comic so much as a comic that takes place during a war.
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Post by thebeastofyuccaflats on Jun 11, 2014 16:21:55 GMT -5
I'm a big fan of the genre... Sgt. Fury with Freidrich, Ayers and Severin would be at the top of my list. Any war comics drawn by Russ Heath would also be right there. The Garth Ennis work in the genre is outstanding. The Enemy Ace prestige format limited series (with art by Russ Heath!) is terrific. The War Stories he did under the Vertigo label are great too with some nicely drawn issues by Chris Weston, Dave Gibbons and David Lloyd. Ennis needs to do a good Sgt. Rock story. He had a pitch, I think about when Preacher & Hitman were still going on. As for the other, he-- and his collaborators-- have been getting the publication rights to his various creator-owned (non-Preacher) material back. Specifically, there's a new edition of the WS coming from Avatar sometime this year, followed by a new series (the new ones include a sequel to WS: Archangel called Out Of The Blue; The Children Of Israel, a look at some Israeli tankers during the Yom Kippur War in 1973; and Our Wild Geese Go, based on a true story of some Irish soldiers taking crap at first from the Brits they fight alongside during WWII, and the discrimination they faced when they returned home). |
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Post by ironchimp on Jun 11, 2014 17:12:18 GMT -5
Bad Company is a good sci-fi sort of war comic. it goes full on psychedelic in the second half (which is equally good but not so much war) but first half is an atmospheric and gripping future vietnam type war.
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Post by Reptisaurus! on Jun 11, 2014 17:41:05 GMT -5
Kubert's Enemy Ace is of course top notch, but I also want to extol the gorgeousness of John Severin's take on Enemy Ace from the Unknown Soldier run from the early 80's. This may be the best work of Severin's career. Severin does full art chores in this thing of beauty. Wow - I've heard about those but I've never got around to reading any of them. That should go way higher on my list. (I did like the George Pratt Graphic Novel, too, now that you remind me.) My favorite non-fiction war comics is Alan's War: The Memories of G.I. Alan Cope, which is about the after-affects of WW II (Alan Cope entered the service just after the fighting ended) and what actual overseas military service was like. (Pretty boring!) But the book is really engaging and funny all through. |
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Post by fanboystranger on Jun 11, 2014 19:11:56 GMT -5
Kubert's Enemy Ace is of course top notch, but I also want to extol the gorgeousness of John Severin's take on Enemy Ace from the Unknown Soldier run from the early 80's. This may be the best work of Severin's career. Severin does full art chores in this thing of beauty. My favorite non-fiction war comics is Alan's War: The Memories of G.I. Alan Cope, which is about the after-affects of WW II (Alan Cope entered the service just after the fighting ended) and what actual overseas military service was like. (Pretty boring!) But the book is really engaging and funny all through. Really good book. I picked it up on a whim a few years ago, and I was very impressed. |
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Post by Deleted on Jun 11, 2014 19:27:00 GMT -5
That series has been pretty much universally praised by people who are really into war comics. I haven't read any yet, but definitely plan to. It supposedly blows The 'Nam out of the water. It does, although there is some very nice Golden art in The 'Nam. Vietnam Journal could really benefit from a collection, preferrably a nice HC. I'm not sure it would sell like gangbusters with the normal comics crowd, but it could get some attention in academic circles. Oh, I definitely liked The 'Nam when I read through it as a kid. it was one of my favorites, although I bought every issue I had out of a bargain bin of a True Value while on summer vacation one year. I didn't really read the later issues except the Punisher crossover. I'd like to reread The 'Nam from the beginning some time. But if Vietnam Journal is supposed to be even better then I'm really excited to read that. A nice reprint hardcover would be great. |
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Post by DubipR on Jun 11, 2014 23:01:16 GMT -5
Of the Sgt. Rock fans here, did any of you read Bill Tucci's "The Lost Batallion"?  I enjoyed it; not really a strong story but damn gorgeous artwork by the Tooch. |
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