Charley's War Vol. 1: Boy Soldier: The Definitive Collection: Volume 1

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I use the word ‘murdered’ deliberately, because ‘manslaughter’ does not do justice to that evil event. I’m unashamed to admit that I learnt far more about the realities of World War One from Charley’s War than I did at school. He wrote the first ever script of Judge Dredd and his multitude of other creations include Slaine, ABC Warriors and Nemesis the Warlock, along with more recent creatons such as Greysuit and Defoe for 2000AD, anti-superhero Marshal Law for the US market and, in France, Requiem Chevalier Vampire (with Olivier Ledroit). As a bemused Jim MacGregor asked me at the time, why doesn’t anyone ask that all important question?

We see, for example, the upper class, promotion-refusing stretcher bearer character of Jack relating some hard-hitting political views about the nature of profiteering in the war. Charley’s War broke new ground and forged what were really the first steps toward a new direction in writing for Pat that still resonates in the genre today.On this page I will try to point out just some of the interesting plots and subjects handled by Charley’s War. VG/VG 1st edition 2012 Titan hardback, unclipped DJ, corners a little pushed with light edge-rubbing to jacket only, bright and unmarked. They do not contain the later Charley's War comics, not written by Pat Mills, where Charley takes part in the Second World War. Charley’s War was also disgracefully missing from Comics Unmasked, Art and Anarchy in the UK, a significant comic book exhibition at the British Library May-August 2014, even though my other stories were very much on display. Why also can a government not do something and own it as a decision- but instead slaps a State Secrets act on it?

Skin is seen talking to a German soldier who is revealed to be his brother but not before the latter is fatally shot by another Briton. In the final explosive volume of never-before-collected comic strip, including for the first time reproductions of strip pages from Joe Colquhoun’s original artwork, we finally reach the epic conclusion of Charley’s story, and the harrowing final days of World War I. I’m sure I don’t need to point out the irony of having to talk about economic exploitation in a review of a book that is, at least in part, about the exploitation of the working class Tommy. I think I cheered out loud when the bully RMP, Sgt Bacon, was about to beat Charley up, but he was foiled by the appearance of a pair of huge Aussie soldiers, who proceeded to administer some well deserved Karma!To End All Wars by Adam Hochschild is the only current anti-war mainstream book I’m aware of that somehow got past the gatekeepers. Over the last few years Moose Harris and I have maintained the semi-official Charley’s War web site, originally established by Neil Emery, which helped generate enough renewed interest in the World War One comic strip by Pat Mills and Joe Colquhoun to persuade Titan Books to reprint it. Their faces stared at us like shrunken mummies, and their eyes were so immense that you could not see anything but their eyes I can’t prove it, but I have the distinct feeling that the majority of historians – even those who focus on the lives of soldiers – exclude anything that’s too humorous and too humanising and I find myself asking why.

com/books/2023/sep/16/british-war-comic-art-rescued-exhibition ) about the fate of the artwork of various war comics, which noted ‘Charley’s War’ and its potency, I then listened to this podcast. It’s why it reacted so savagely – through its surrogates The Daily Mail and The Sun – when Darren Cullen produced the hard-hitting and very watchable film Action Man Battlefield Casualties which to date, has 3. Of course censorship is something no one will ever admit to – it’s always hard to prove – and that’s why it works particularly well in Britain.If you’re a revisionist, or of the revisionist persuasion, this cannot be explained away, I’m afraid. The third viewpoint was unheard of until recent years and is still barely known today, not least because of the cognitive dissonance it causes in all of us. The platoon advances towards Germany during the final weeks of the war, taking part in the crossing of the St. Charley’s War , the comic book story of a young soldier in the Great War, beautifully illustrated by Joe Colquhoun, is still in print today, as a superb three-volume collection from Rebellion.