bushco and Iraq War saved!!!!! Marvel Comics 'Combat Zone: True Tales

[bobbieinok]

http://www.marvel.com/catalog/showcomic.htm?id=1543&format=comic
of GIs in Iraq'

heard author interviewed on a program on Tulsa's am religious station KCFO 970am (CFO=Christ for Oklahoma)

author said he'd seen US soldiers praying for Iraquis; said that the 60s changed comic books like it had changed everything else in US BUT he was restoring the concept of heroes to the comic book and to American life

program host (a woman, Donna? from DesMoines?) said the comic book was very educational: it explained and detailed the weapons, showed how soldiers prepared for combat, etc.........she recommended parents discuss it with their children at the dinner table

COMBAT ZONE: TRUE TALES OF GI'S IN IRAQ #1

COVER BY: ESAD RIBI
WRITER: Karl Zinsmeister
PENCILS: Dan Jurgens
INKS: Sandu Florea

THE STORY: Combat comics are taken to a whole new level! Three months in the lives of the 82nd Airborne in the Battle for Iraq are chronicled in this groundbreaking series by long-time 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). In chapter one, "Paratroopers Over The Border," American paratroopers in northern Kuwait must contend with choking sandstorms, high-adrenaline training, and the hair-trigger tension that dominates the tense run-up to war in Iraq. War arrives in deadly fashion on their doorstep – in the shape of ballistic missiles. To survive, they must rely on the skills of men whom they’ve never met, but whose fates are inexorably linked to their own.

[C_eh_N_eh_D_eh]

1. I always preferred DC, myself.

[Stirk]

2. Could be good. Marvel also published "The 'Nam", which was

often very educational. I remember one issue that was told from the perspective of a Viet Cong fighter in his 50's. It recounted the history of Vietnam very well, and offered some perspective on the life of an average Vietnamese citizen at the time.

This "Combat Zone" might be John Wayne-style shoot-em-up bullshit- but it might not be.