Purchased my first digital comic ever over the weekend - a collection of a WW2 Eastern Front comic called The Grand Duke. Growing I loved comics like GI Combat and Fightin' Army, esp the issues that would deal with the air war. There aren't enough WW2 comics out these days and when I find one it's usually not very good or they feel the need to throw in aliens just to appeal to the ADD crowd. Well, that's not the case here...these guys are obviously WW2 German and Russian war machine fans. There are tons of glory shots of weapons, tanks, and those wonderful aircraft. And there are dogfights - LOTS of them.
The Story centers around a German officer named Wulf (who paints the tail of his fighter plane black in defiance of the Nazi party) who is stuck in combat on the Eastern Front against the Red Witches of Russia. He comes to know one of them personally and of course that turns into a romance of sorts. Normally that would spell doom for a story like this, but not here. The book is fast paced and full of action and interesting characters. We need more comics like this in the world today. World War II history is FULL of rich possibilities.
A final money shot of The Grand Duke itself...the He219 UHU...which figures prominently in the story.
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