billcoffin 's review for:

War Stories, Volume 2 by Cam Kennedy, Garth Ennis, Carlos Ezquerra, David Lloyd, Gary Erskine

5.0

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Garth Ennis returns with another squad of artists to tell a series of thrilling, heartbreaking and deeply human tales of those who fought in and around WWII. This time, we read about a Lancaster bomber crew whose shared experience still doesn't make them friends, a courageous SAS team raising hell in the deserts of North Africa, a quartet of disparate figures thrown together by fate and artillery for a fateful night during the Spanish Civil War and a luckless but skillful RAF pilot who gets assigned to a virtual suicide mission borne of desperate measures. As before, Ennis' deep interest in the subject matter drives things forward, and he always knows when to let the story override the history for the sake of narrative, but without trampling on history. The result is, once again, some of the finest war comics you're likely to read any time soon. So good.