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7. War Stories
(Vertigo/Avatar)
No one does war stories like Garth Ennis. The guy loves to write about the horrors of conflict.
Hell, half of this list contains the word Luftwaffe somewhere. And Ennis’ Vertigo series War Stories collection was simply that. One-off stories of warfare featuring various different artists. Each one is about horror and fear and misery and camaraderie.
Some of the tales stretch beyond the boundaries of World War II into supplemental conflicts like the Spanish Civil War. Like Ennis’ other war books, the series may be fictional, but it remains particularly educational. Ennis loves to spotlight the lesser-known oddities of war.
My favorite War Stories issue, Archangel, tells the story of the Hurricats, squads of British pilots whose planes were strapped into catapults for easier deployment. If that sounds terrifying, it’s only because it very much is. From saturation bombing runs over Germany to SAS missions in the deserts, War Stories is what you want out of war comics. Violent, meaningful, powerful.
