HUNDRED WORD HIT #79 - WAR IS HELL: THE FIRST FLIGHT OF THE PHANTOM EAGLE #1-5
War Is Hell - The First Flight of the Phantom Eagle #1-5 by Garth Ennis & Howard Chaykin
Garth Ennis’ quest over recent years to make war comics relevant as a genre sees him take on the horrors of the Great War with industry legend Howard Chaykin
The mysterious Karl Kaufmann arrives at 88 Squadron with his own plane ready to take to the skies to fight the Germans.
Over five issues Kaufmann masters the art of aerial combat, earns his first kill but sees fellow pilots (and friends) shot down. A crash landing in no-man’s land reveals the utter futility of the ground war something Kaufmann was blissfully unaware of thousands of metres above the trenches.
Rating 7 out of 10
