Wayne Vansant’s book Katusha: Girl Soldier of the Great Patriotic War is the first Graphic Novel that we have hosted on DODReads.com. We chose Katusha due to the Wayne’s amazing ability to tell a compelling story combining both words and images. While history books are full of facts and figures, Wayne is able to immerse… Read more

A selection of creepy and haunting tales of men at sea, some told as a comic, and others as text paired with a single illustration. Apparently, this is a third book by the author / creator. Given what I’ve read here, I definitely want to read more. The closing mini-interview with the creator gives me… Read more

Wednesdays are new comic book day! Each week hundreds of comics are released, and that can be pretty daunting to go over and choose what to buy. That’s where we come in! Each week our contributors choose what they can’t wait to read this week or just sounds interesting. In other words, this is what… Read more

Dead Reckoning is the new comics imprint from the Naval Institute Press and these titles are only part of the exciting new lineup of books. For more details, go here: https://www.deadreckoning.org

Here are some amazing titles from Dead Reckoning: The Night Witches by Garth Ennis and Russ Braun; Men at Sea by Riff Reb; and Katusha by Wayne Vansant. I am still catching up since being away in New York. So, here we go, we will jump right in. Our first title pairs up two great… Read more

Comic books and graphic novels are making their return. In many quarters they are replacing novels because they are showing a story, not only telling it. I tend to prefer the printed word (don’t judge me), there is still a place for talented art blended with a good yarn. Riff Rebs (born in Algeria, raised… Read more

The ‘Stan is a graphic novel recounting a series of seventeen snapshot accounts of the war in Afghanistan. Each is told from the perspective of a different person, be they soldier or civilian, who lived and fought there in the last decade and a half. The stories, each usually only three to four pages long,… Read more

As the German Army smashes deep into the Soviet Union and the defenders of the Motherland retreat in disarray, a new squadron arrives at a Russian forward airbase. Like all night bomber units, they risk fiery death flying obsolete biplanes against the invader-but unlike the rest, these pilots and navigators are women. In the lethal… Read more

Renown graphic novelist, Garth Ennis, visits with Mark to discuss his new book, The Night Witches, about the young women who flew night bombing raids for the Red Army in WWII. As the German army smashes deep in to the Soviet Union and the Red Army retreats in disarray, teenager Anna Kharkhova quickly grows into… Read more

The original novel is considered a masterpiece of literature, an anti-war novel told from the inside, from the viewpoint of a World War I German soldier, and describing the lives of his companions in wartime. Wayne Vansant is an excellent and experienced artist in the field of war comics, having done graphic works based on… Read more