Smedley Writer/Artist: Jeff McComsey Publisher: Dead Reckoning Description: In SMEDLEY we follow legendary Marine Corps General Smedley Darlington Butler through several periods in his life exploring conflicts and moments in American and Marine Corps history that are often overlooked. Events ranging from The Philippine-American War, The Boxer Rebellion, The Banana Wars in South America, and finally World… Read more

Dead Reckoning. The Stringbags by Garth Ennis and PJ Holden (May 20, $29.95 trade paper, ISBN 978-1-68247-503-4). Ennis (the Preacher series) and Holden (World of Tanks) offer a history of the machines and men of the WWII British Royal Navy’s Swordfish crews, who fought in out-of-date monoplanes the modern torpedo bombers of Germany, Japan, and… Read more

Dead Reckoning have released The Stringbags a graphic novel written by Garth Ennis; drawn by PJ Holden; colored by Kelly Fitzpatrick and; lettered by Rob Steen. Nazi Germany, Imperial Japan, and Fascist Italy began World War II with torpedo bombers that could devastate enemy warships and merchantmen at will. Britain’s Royal Navy squadrons went to… Read more

“A reserve crew in a hopelessly outdated biplane attacking the might of a battleship convoy in the early days of World War Two. The Stringbags is, like the best well-researched military history, delivered with genuine heart— something Garth Ennis excels at. A gripping underdog tale filled with spectacle and tragedy, featuring career-best art from PJ Holden.”… Read more

An international bestseller with over one million copies sold, the French series Once Upon a Time in France, collected here in one omnibus edition, has won the BDGest’Art Best Scenario Award, BDGest’Arts Album of the Year, and Angouleme International Comics Festival Best Series Award, among many others… and I’m not surprised, because it’s a truly… Read more

If you do the incredible often enough, they’ll want you to do the impossible. Writer Garth Ennis and artist PJ Holden present The Stringbags, an original graphic novel based on the true story of the Royal Navy’s Swordfish crews in early World War II. A biplane torpedo bomber in an age of monoplanes, the Fairey Swordfish… Read more

Writer Garth Ennis is back with a new comic set during World War II. Ennis, artists P.J. Holden and Kelly Fitzpatrick, and letterer Rob Steen have teamed for The Stringbags, a graphic novel telling the true tale of the Royal Navy’s Fairey Swordfish bombers. The Swordfish bomber, nicknamed ‘Stringbags,’ were some of the last biplanes used in a world of… Read more

Writer Garth Ennis and artist PJ Holden present The Stringbags, an original graphic novel based on the true story of the Royal Navy’s Swordfish crews in early World War II. A biplane torpedo bomber in an age of monoplanes, the Fairey Swordfish was underpowered and under-gunned; an obsolete museum piece, an embarrassment. Its crews fully… Read more

Dead Reckoning will release The Stringbags, a graphic novel about British World War II pilots by Garth Ennis and PJ Holden, next May, the company announced. “The Stringbags” referred to the Fairey Swordfish, a biplane torpedo bomber piloted by airmen of the British Royal Navy in the early days of World War II. The aircraft… Read more

Dead Reckoning have announced a new World War II graphic novel called “The Stringbags,” from writer Garth Ennis, artist PJ Holden, colorist Kelly Fitzpatrick and letterer Rob Steen. Ennis and Holden have previously collaborated on “World of Tanks.” The book is based on the true stories of the pilots and crews involved in the Royal… Read more