(Image)
The US Army has an annual recruitment goal of 80,000 new recruits per year, so it’s no surprise that, in the shadow of a manufactured war-for-profit, for the past few years they haven’t always been meeting their objectives. As the Associated Press recently reported, “The Army began its recruiting year Oct. 1 with fewer […]

(Top Shelf)
For every James Bond and Jason Bourne, Emma Peel and John Steed, there’s a Willie Caine, Tara Chase or Sharlink “The Shark”. Where The Man From U.N.C.L.E. or the double-oh agents may glorify the life of spies as a sexy, almost cartoonish existence, it’s series like Queen and Country or Matt Kindt’s Super […]

(FirstSecond)
In a country of indeterminate origin (could be any of the war-torn Eastern European countries of the past decade), three young, undereducated men, Christian, Stefano and Guiliano, forge out along the countryside, scavenging and squatting, searching for a life that’s different, if not better, than the one they know. Christian was bandied between foster […]

(DC)
If it sounds like a 1950’s B-movie, I think it’s supposed to. The mini-series opens up in Washington D.C. where, in a flash, a literal army of armed and armored women have appeared on the steps of the Lincoln Memorial, around the Reflecting Pool, and atop winged horses invading a decidedly no-fly-zone. The […]

(Vertigo)
It’s my curiosity that got the better of me. DC needed a new Sandman (for some reason, Geoff John’s “Sand” in JSA didn’t suffice), and the torch was being passed via Vertigo’s Sandman Mystery Theatre. The original Sandman Mystery Theatre by Matt Wagner and Steve Seagle was a brilliant series telling golden age […]

(Virgin Comics)
Vampire terrorists? Well, not quite, but that’s the overly simplified description of Virulents, an extra-sized squarebound one-shot from Virgin comics. The book is the first story I’ve come across that tackles the post-9/11 wars with a supernatural bent, a modern Weird War Tales that sees soldiers facing forces beyond their understanding. […]

(Vertigo)
It’s the “@” that gives it away.
Some reviewers of Rick Veitch’s new series, Army@Love have taken it to task for not being this generation’s “M*A*S*H*”: an anti-establishment view of an unpopular war, with its protagonists the only heroically “sane” people in the asylum. And, no question, Veitch makes it clear in his afterword that he’s […]

(Image Comics)
Mr. Blik, Gordon and Waffle were raised in a mega-mansion by Mrs. Edna Cramdilly who left the little darlings her house and every penny of her fortune when she died. But Mr. Blik, Gordon and Waffle aren’t her grandsons, they’re cats! The brothers live a life of freedom, adventure and, well, usually total mayhem. […]

(Bloodfire Studios)
Now this is more like it. I wasn’t exactly inspired by the first issue of Utopiates but I could see the promise of its premise, and with this second issue Josh Finney and Kat Rocha have capitalized upon it and tamed it into something if not quite unique then definitely enjoyable. It’s […]

(Marvel)
With all the big events that have and continue to go around, Annihilation just kept getting more and more overshadowed, until it was practically lost in the dark. Once it became evident that this pan-dimensional intergalactic war was going to stay out of Earth’s trajectory, well, that was probably lights out for a lot […]

(Boom! Studios)
Take the most popular tabletop war game and merge that with the fastest growing publisher in the comic book business and you have geek synergy - as well as a recipe for success. Damnation Crusade is the first in a series of comic books Boom! has planned exploring the vast and rich Warhammer 40K […]

(Vertigo)
Since the imprint of Vertigo was created to represent the “suggested for mature readers” line of DC Comics, the Sandman is one of few characters that has been allowed to jump in and out of the continuity of the DC Universe. Swamp Thing and Hellblazer aren’t really allowed anymore, and the Doom Patrol isn’t […]

(DC Comics)
The Unknown Soldier character first appeared in Star-Spangled War Stories issue #151 and ran for 64 issues from 1977 to 1982. This Showcase volume contains the first 38 stories featuring the work of writer Bob Haney and artists Dick Ayers and Gerry Talaoc. Backup features in the original comic featured Enemy Ace by Robert […]

(Wildstorm)
Finer minds than mine have thought it first, but it’s worth revisiting: at his worst, Garth Ennis is still better than a greater percentage of writers out there. I’d even go so far as to extend that to his collaborator, Chris Sprouse, whose linework and storytelling are exemplary on a consistent month-in-and-out basis. […]

(DC/Wildstorm)
The payoff issue, and what a payoff it is as writer Garth Ennis’ World War II fighter jock mini-series wraps up. Though the previous four issues weren’t exactly short on action - with plenty of well choreographed aerial combat sequences - issue five takes it to another level with twenty-two pages of non-stop, pulse-pounding action, […]

(DC Comics)
One of the great, if faded, genres in comics is war. Almost every publisher has had war titles of varied quality. DC had several books dedicated totally to combat stories during the 1950s and 1960s. One of the better titles was Our Army At War. This title mainly dealt with World War II. From […]

(Wildstorm)
I was very jazzed about this new action-espionage series when I first heard it announced, being a fan of both writer Brian Azzarello and the old Wildstorm “Team 7” commandos (which former Navy SEAL Michael Cray, codenamed “Deathblow,” was a member). Only problem with that though is that feeling too jazzed about anything can lead […]