I know a person can be sceptic about a manga that talks about vikings but I tell you, Vinland Saga is really something different. The story is about the life of viking explorer Thorfinn Karlsefni, the author has a deep respect for viking culture, he personally made a trip to Iceland in order to do a better research for the manga.
After chapter 18 the art goes from good to great imo, surprisingly enough the story also offers many occasions for psichologycal develepoment.
Here are some panels.
'68 published by Image Comics , its more historical fiction than anything
but i really enjoyed it.
Its an alternative history comic book based on the vietnam war
Spoiler alert!
There might be zombies involved…
It has lots of historical events gone wrong and lots of cool 'nam moments
In most pages its like i can hear “better run through the jungle” playing in the distance.
That looks great! Never heard of the eagles of rome before.
And i finished reading The last Legion by Manfredi last month, which i really enjoyed.
I’ll probably give this one a try!
In the story The Icebox Robber by Carl Barks (1945) Huey, Dewey and Louie try to stop Donald from sleepwalking with various methods includong firecrackers, this causes a full scale PTSD on the duck.
This month 79 years ago, Timely Comics published the first issue a new superhero. In a time when comic books were thought of as solely a kid’s medium, this new hero comic caused a lot of controversy & even death threats on co-creators Joe Simon & Jack Kirby. The reason for all of this was because of his openly political nature. The cover showed him assaulting a real life foreign leader of a country the United States was not at war while doing so in an overtly patriotic costume.
I know for sure that the comic Sturmtruppen has been translated in German so an English translation seems probable, about the current availability of this strip abroad I wouldn’t know…
Ad Astra Scipio to Hannibal is a Japanese manga set during the 2nd Punic War that portrays the rivalry between the two generals, despite its origins I find this read quite accurate and respectful of the actual history, it also shows lesser known protagonists and aspects of this long war, expecially the part after Cannae.
The rivalry begins
Dictator Quintus Fabius Maximus
General Marcellus
Praetor Quintus Fulvius Flaccus and Carthaginian general Gisco
Captain America Comics #1 hit the newsstand on December 20, 1940, though cover dated March 1941.
The comic book industry in the United States did something other entertainment mediums did not at the time, took on the Axis powers, alas in fiction form. If it was not called Germans or Nazis or Japanese, they were given other names but readers knew who they were talking about. With a few exceptions, Hollywood and radio didn’t talk about the war much nor offered much opinion on the actions of the Axis or the Soviet Union either until after Pearl Harbor.
Simon and Kirby were first generation Americans of Jewish immigrant parents. They had kept aprised of what Hitler was up to and loathed him. They were fortunate to work in a medium that allowed them to express their anger towards him, right up to socking Hitler in the jaw.
The telling of fictional tales or WWII was big business after the war. Every company had a war title from the 50s through the 80s. The most acclaimed storywise was EC’s Frontline Combat and Two-Fisted Tales. DC took the hero tack with decades of Sgt. Rock, Haunted Tank, Unknown Solider, Creature Commandos, The Losers, and a host of others lasted over 30 years in publications. Marvel did Sgt. Fury, of which post-war superspy Nick Fury of S.H.I.E.L.D. spun out of the series.
In the UK, Charley’s War is well reverred. Commando is still being published weekly to this day. And 2000 AD science fiction magazine that gave the world Judge Dredd also did the genre mash-up thing with Fiends of the Eastern Front, vampires meet the Eastern Front.
And since mash-ups are the rage, howabout some G. I. Zombie?
