The Stringbags. If you do the incredible often enough, they’ll want you to do the impossible. Nazi Germany, Imperial Japan, and Fascist Italy began World War II with aircraft that could devastate enemy warships and merchantmen at will. Britain’s Royal Navy squadrons went to war equipped with the Fairey Swordfish. A biplane torpedo bomber in… Read more

The Stringbags – biplanes flying through WWII, underpowered, undergunned, whose crews never expected to become heroes in a plane that was never expected to become the stuff of legends. Garth Ennis and PJ Holden‘s Stringbags takes three of the most famous missions and ties it all together through the exploits of a trio of fictional… Read more

AUG201282 (W) Jean-Yves DeLitte, Giuseppe Baiguera (A) Jean-Yves DeLitte, Giuseppe Baiguera Since the publication of Alfred Thayer Mahan’s seminal The Influence of Sea Power Upon History, the important and defining role of sea power on civilization has been recognized. This symbol of a nation’s scientific and military genius has often been the deciding factor during… Read more

My first thought on Garth Ennis’ The Night Witches was a question. Would the story fall closer to Kate Quinn’s The Huntress or Aimie K. Runyan’s Daughters of the Night Sky? My second thought was to chastise myself for assuming the three-volume collection would resemble either, but I suppose such comparison should be expected when… Read more

Naval Institute Press Announces Fall 2020 Lineup: The graphic novel publisher Dead Reckoning, an imprint of the Naval Institute Press, has released its Fall 2020 lineup. The press is independent of the military and publishes books on military and naval history and related topics (see “ICv2 Interview: Gary Thompson on New Imprint“); their recent works… Read more

For all you military and war history buffs out there, I’m completely onboard with the graphic novels that depict war, past, present and future. Particularly the stories based on true stories. Here’s the Fall 2020 lineup coming out of Dead Reckoning which even has one that’s a movie streaming on Netflix currently, which looks like… Read more

I was not familiar with Francisco Boix’s story before picking up The Photographer of Mauthausen, but the graphic novel struck such chords that I doubt I will ever forget it. The book offers insight into the lives of Mauthausen’s political prisoners and the protocols designed to exterminate them through hard labor. The artistry of the… Read more

Dead Reckoning, the comic imprint of the Naval Institute Press, has announced three new graphic novels that will be released in Fall 2020. Check out below for what’s coming to shelves. Great Naval Battles of the Twentieth Century: Tsushima, Jutland, Midway by Jean-Yves Delitte and Giuseppe Baiguera. With this collection, Jean-Yves Delitte and Giuseppe Baiguera… Read more

In The Photographer of Mauthausen by Salvia Rubio, we’re off to the notorious Mauthausen concentration camp in this historical graphic novel. Before we get started, I’d like to thank NetGalley, Dead Reckoning, as well as Salvia Rubio, Pedro J. Colombo, and Aintzane Landa for the ability to review this ARC before it officially releases. The… Read more

World War II’s Battle of Stalingrad stands as one of the bloodiest battles in the history of warfare. From August 23, 1942, until February 2, 1943, German troops and their allies fought the Soviet Union for control of Stalingrad, now Volgograd. Targeted because of its industry and strategic position on the Volga River, Stalingrad had… Read more