Red Tails

New Lucasfilm movie Red Tails comes out Jan. 20th. A story of the Tuskegee Airmen in WW2.

Red Tails Trailer

Cancelled?

Just got news that DC's Men Of War will be cancelled after issue #8, which is ok with me as the series was going down hill after a very strong start. The good news about this is DC will be replacing it with GI Combat, which will feature rotating creators and characters such as The Haunted Tank and The Unknown Soldier. I'm really looking forward to this title and hope they put in a story with Enemy Ace.

Men Of War #5

Not even about war anymore. This has to be one of the worst books I've ever read. The story seems to go no where and everywhere at once without explaining anything. The second story in the book is even worse, it's almost a backwards ripoff of the movie Mr. and Mrs. Smith. I think it's two undercover agents having a knife fight that ends with a missile attack and both walking away. Avoid this book, and quite possibly the series. I'm stuck with it for at least 3 more issues since I've already ordered them.

Marine War Heroes #16

This issue has four comic stories. Three based in Viet Nam and one in World War 2. One of the Nam stories showed a plan I had never heard of or thought of before, using the Viet Cong's tunnels. A Marine hides out in one with a radio man and directs an air attack on surrounding Viet Cong.
The WW2 story was really good as well, and involved Filipino villagers assisting Marines in attacking the Japanese.
There was also a WW1 one page prose story in this issue.

Sgt. Rock Between Hell And A Hard Place #2

Merry Christmas a couple of days late. While I didn't receive any comics for Christmas I did have this issue left over from last weeks new comic pile. Written by Brian Azzarello and drawn by Joe Kubert it's the continuation of a murder mystery tale. With Easy Company doubting each other who is the cold blooded killer of high ranking German prisoners of war only Sgt. Rock was able to figure out who was behind it all. That's all I can really say about this without giving away spoilers. There is also two reprint stories from Rock's past. They don't say what issues but the last one was drawn by Kubert as well and it gives you a great view on how his work has changed from the early years. I kind of prefer the style he uses now. Pick up this two issue series it's really well done.

Fightin' Army #82

The stories in this book are a little slow going but not all that bad. Weird thing is the first story makes reference to The Desert Fox, which I mentioned in my last post.
There's a really well done one page prose piece about the American forces offering gold to any North Vietnamese person who helps an American soldier. I had never heard about this and it makes me want to research it a little further to see if its true. If you know, comment on this post with a link to a story or article on it.

And just a few minutes on google and I found the exact leaflet used in the story, although it makes no mention of anything that happened in the story (which seemed a little far-fetched but you never know).

http://www.psywarrior.com/VNRewardsleaf.html

The Fightin' 5 #30

I'm not 100% sure I would class this as a war comic, it feels more like GIJOE than anything. The main story has to do more with a made up clandestine force than any army or what have you. But that said there are some great one and two page stories that deal with real armies. The best of these being the last story in the book about the Desert Fox, Marshall Rommel. There were some neat historical tidbits in the story. If you're a fan of the real history and you can find this book cheap enough (I paid $3) then i would pick it up based on the Rommel story alone.