COMBAT ZONE: TRUE TALES OF GI'S IN IRAQ #1COVER BY: ESAD RIBI
WRITER: Karl Zinsmeister
PENCILS: Dan Jurgens
INKS: Sandu Florea
Posted on 12/02/2004 2:04:47 PM PST by dennisw
COMBAT ZONE: TRUE TALES OF GI'S IN IRAQ #1
COVER BY: ESAD RIBI
WRITER: Karl Zinsmeister
PENCILS: Dan Jurgens
INKS: Sandu Florea
THE STORY: Combat comics are taken to a whole new level! Three months in the lives of the 82nd Airborne in the Battle for Iraq are chronicled in this groundbreaking series by long-time embedded journalist Karl Zinsmeister ("Boots on the Ground: A Month with the 82nd Airborne in the Battle for Iraq") and penciler Dan Jurgens (Thor, Superman). In chapter one, "Paratroopers Over The Border," American paratroopers in northern Kuwait must contend with choking sandstorms, high-adrenaline training, and the hair-trigger tension that dominates the tense run-up to war in Iraq. War arrives in deadly fashion on their doorstep – in the shape of ballistic missiles. To survive, they must rely on the skills of men whom they’ve never met, but whose fates are inexorably linked to their own.
http://www.marvel.com/catalog/showcomic.htm?id=1543&format=comic
ping for research at home. :)
Another way to bring the true hero's back to the limelight instead of the wannabe hollywierd heros
DC Comics used to have a comic book called "The Nam." Which was really well done and had excellent stories and art. Hopefully this one will be the same way.
COOOOOOOOOOOL!! The cover art looks good...
The Nam was from Marvel as well.
Oh MAN, Fury was my favorite book to collect when I was a kid (and back issues were cheaper). I used to have #1, but I still have a good many of the issues, including #4, when Junior Juniper was killed, #18 when Pam Hawley was killed, and the best one ever, #9...Mission: CAPTURE HITLER!
"The Nam was from Marvel as well."
Noted. My mistake. "Sgt. Rock of Easy Co." was DC's though. The one's with John Severin's art were awesome. Some of Easy's stories were heartwrenching.
Don't forget Sgt. Rock and Easy Company!
Looks interesting. The 82nd was in Ramadi and Falluja last year for Christmas.
All I can say is WOW!!!!!!!!!!! I'm gonna go down to the comic book store in Kokomo, IN and start purchasing these!
The Nam. Yeah I remember that one. Algore invented and penciled it and it starred John F'in Kerry.
"Eat leaden death, Nazi scum!"
Bwhahahaha!
Loved the Rock.
I stopped collecting them in my mid twenties when they turned my favorite, Iron Man, into a cold blooded murderer. He even killed Jarvis the Butler if I remember correctly.
Y'all are just wrong, is what YOU are. :)
Interestingly, though not surprisingly, this book is being denounced as Neocon propoganda by many in comics, because it was created and written by Karl Zinsmeister, the EIC of The American Enterprise magazine.
http://csls.diamondcomics.com/
Just put in your zip code and it will tell you where the closest shops are.
DC came up with some tortured premises...
...but that one takes the cake.
PRICE: $2.99 IN STORES: 01-05-2005
I didn't know comic books had a rating? Whatever! Looks like a nice stocking stuffer for the old man.
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