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8. Analog Heroes

Recently, I've been reading my way through the Showcase Presents collection of The War That Time Forgot, which was a long-running feature about WWII soldiers stumbling across an island that’s mysteriously full of dinosaurs. I love comic books. But New Frontier's first chapter, the story of how WW2 team The Losers met their end on the island is legitimately heartbreaking.

Darwyn Cooke is able to create an immediate sense of attachment to these characters we've just met, especially Cloud, who is the last Loser standing by the end.

If you told me there was a way to make Dinosaur Island the setting of a heartbreaking story of brotherhood and friendship, I would have laughed in your face. But by god, Cooke does it. It also gives Rick Flagg excellent motivation for his actions throughout the rest of the book. Plus, his insistence on naming the Mars mission be named Project Flying Cloud makes me choke up.

Oh, and the last page of the dinosaur island segment is absolutely beautiful on every single level possible. Perfection.