Combat Zone: True Tales of GIs in Iraq
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| Rating | : | 4.27 (596 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0785115161 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 120 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2016-12-11 |
| Language | : | English |
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Collects Combat Zone: True Tales of GI's In Iraq #1-5.. Longtime 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) chronicle three months in the lives of the 82nd Airborne in the Battle for Iraq in this groundbreaking series
Unintentionally funny. JK I bought this because of the positive reviews and because it sounded like it might be pretty good. It's not. The drawings are well-done. Beyond that, this could easily have been written during the WWII Africa campaign with a few updates on weapons and jargon.All the sterotypes are here. There's Duhon, the dumb but friendly Southerner, Kulzinski, the brawny Pole, Dean, the third-generation Army brat, Marco, the tough Texan, Gordon, the wet-behind-the-ears Lieutenant, and Brown, the token black. I'm pretty sure I've seen all these guys in a John Wayne movie or three. Oh, right, Wayne's there . chrisreeve1969 said fantastic idea. This was a fresh surprise. A gritty, realistic take, so different from the "fantasy" themes I've grown sick of in comics. This is full of human beings and jokes and frustrating dilemmas and sadness and triumphs. No robots!I've been waiting for the war on terror, which has changed our lives so much, to trickle down into the world of storytelling and entertainment. Have been surprised how little has appeared before now. So kudos to Marvel for taking a chance on something very different from today's usual comic book and graphic novel format.This works. It's not like anything else out there. It. mgonzalez said powerful, and a refreshing change of pace. If you're looking for a grown up comic novel, one with real character development, believable dialogue, a positive take on humanity, sincere moral dilemmas, gradually accumulating tension, and lots of realistic details of combat, look no further. In case you are not a regular to contemporary "graphic novels" (as book-length comics are now called--a little pretentiously, in opinion) these are not common features of the genre. So I found this very refreshing, and quite interesting as a document that rings very true, at the same time that it runs counter to much of the conventional wisdom we h