Actually, it's more like getting sponsored for something you were already doing! From 2018,
World of Tanks: Citadel #5, written by Garth Ennis, art by P.J. Holden, colors by Michael Atiyeh.
I thought
World of Tanks was a mobile game; and maybe it is, but there's an ad for PS4/Xbox One/Xbox 360 on the back of this issue. This was the second of two mini-series tying in for the game; but reads more like another of Ennis's
Battlefields; and this issue was the conclusion of the
Battle of Kursk. The Germans had overextended themselves, and their new
Panther tank wasn't a success. Ennis probably does the best-researched war comics ever; I'm going to have to see if any of the other issues turn up.
Just a random issue here, but it shows how good strategy and planning can be completely undermined by shoddy equipment and bad luck.
One gets the impression that Ennis would rather prefer nothing more than to write period war stories for the rest of his life.
ReplyDeleteI think he’s gone on record that he more or less would. Some of his earliest letters to comic books were war comics, and he has a large collection of books about different war vehicles. I think a few publishers have even convinced him to write for them by giving him access to their war characters.
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