Thursday, August 22, 2024

The overall effect is like the Tankies got a sponsor.

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.
Posted by googum at 5:00 AM
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2 comments:

Anonymous said...

One gets the impression that Ennis would rather prefer nothing more than to write period war stories for the rest of his life.

12:03 PM
H said...

I 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.

3:03 PM

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