Warriors 4 Life

Today I bought a poster of 90s era New Warriors from someone online. This makes me happy...

These things come in threes you know

Isaac Hayes dies at 65. Given he was found unconscious by his running treadmill I'm guessing the COD will be heart attack...

'Splosions

Sunday Trade: Enemy Ace

Enemy Ace: War in Heaven, written by Garth Ennis, art by Chris Weston, Christian Alamv & Ayss Heath

Recently the roommate convinced me to try one of Ennis' latest books. War is Hell, where he redoes one of Marvel's 'classic' characters, ace fighter pilot The Phantom Eagle. Of course the books involves black and coarse humor, graphic violence, surly misanthropes bound together by the shared horror of war and so on. And the whole thing left me cold. And I think this book and his War Stories are the reasons why. Ennis loves to tell war stories and westerns. As much as he hates super-heroes of late. But I think he's gone to the same well to often and now everything reads the same. And so he has to try and get you with more and more lurid and graphic "shocks"...

Which is a pity. Because Enemy Ace: War in Heaven is damn good. It takes a WW1 era character, German pilot Von Hammer and puts him into WW2. And you see a character, already cynical and disillusioned about the "glory" of war run into the horrors of the Soviet front, the spying and twisted politics of the Gestapo and the even greater horrors of Dachau. I miss being impressed by Ennis' work...