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Word Magazine December 2005: "The never-bettered WW1 trench warfare comic strip Charley's War is now in its second volume of reprints and is unmissable."
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Renowned UK comics writer Pat Mills (Marshal Law, Slaine) and legendary artist Joe Colquhoun (Johnny Red) continue the thrilling, humorous and horrifying story of World War One soldier Charley Bourne. It is now the late summer of 1916. Though Charley has survived the early days of the Somme, with treachery on both sides of the wire and a dangerous new commanding officer, triumph and tragedy lie in store as he desperately tries to survive...Rich in the detailed minutiae of the terror-punctuated existence of a 'Tommy', this second volume of Charley's War features a brand new introduction and 'director's commentary' by Pat Mills, plus exclusive extra content.
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14 of 14 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars
What we really need is a SIX STAR rating ......,
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This review is from: Charley's War: 1 August-17 October 1916 (Hardcover)
It's a testament to Messers Pat Mills and Joe Colquhoun that the writing and art work stand the test of time and the hue of the rose coloured spectacles with which men of a certain age view there childhood comics/t.v/curly wurly's etc.It's fair to say that this comic strip effected me profoundly and changed the way in which I perceived history, I had just studied WWI at school when this strip appeared and it opened my eyes to the war and the way it was fought. Horses in gas masks? snipers in armour? tank crews wearing chainmail? The British Class System in the Trenches? he's making it all up said I. a summer holiday trip to the Imperial War Museum soon enlightened me. The research both in script and art surpass anything I've ever seen in this genre and also beat hands down several 'serious' works i've read on the subject. This in a boys comic, which also produced such works as "Darkies Mob", "HMS Nightshade" and "Johnny Red". Buy this for yourself, it's twice as good as what you remember. Then let your kids read it.
11 of 11 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars
Classic, dark, detailed.,
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This review is from: Charley's War: 1 August-17 October 1916 (Hardcover)
Fans of Charley's War brought up on the 1970s/1980s strips in Battle will need no introduction to the work of Mills and Colquhon.For everyone else, you're in for a rare treat. Nowadays its much more common for comics to question or be morally ambiguous. When written, this strip was quite literally, revolutionary. It did the Etaples Mutiny years before the Monocled Mutineer, for example. Colquhoun's exceptionally detailed artwork, almost photographic in its quality, is the perfect foil to Mills' challenging scripts. For anyone wishing for a take on WW1 that goes way beyond the gung-ho, look no further. Excellent stuff - and roll on the following volumes.
3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:
4.0 out of 5 stars
Rediscovered classic for new generations,
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This review is from: Charley's War: 1 August-17 October 1916 (Hardcover)
I was an 80s child. And that meant 2000ad.
Sometimes I'd hear about Charley's War alongside ABC Warriors, Slaine, Nemesis the Warlock and the other classics he'd created for that seminal sci-fi comic that was to my generation what Battle was to those older than me. I'd never heard of it, but if it was mentioned in the same breath as those strips and Marshal Law, well, I owed it to myself to find out. Finding out was pretty hard. My local comic shop fondly remembered Charley's War from their own childhood, but getting hold of reprint editions was almost impossible. Titan have gone much further than I could ever have hoped. The reproduction is surprisingly crisp, the number of collections on the market (and on my shelf) is pleasingly large meaning the reader can immerse themselves (and promptly order the next volume) and the extras are well-done too. Joe Colquhoun couldn't wish for a better epitaph than to know generations who never read it the first time can also discover this lost classic.
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