Tag Archives: World War II

Spotlight on The Unknown Soldier, 1988-1989 – part 2

Posted on March 10, 2022 by I.M. Baytor

As I started to discuss last week, 1988-9’s exhilarating The Unknown Soldier limited series is miles apart from Joe Kubert’s original iteration of the character. For one thing, instead of a fully-committed agent of an unquestionably righteous American war effort, … Continue reading →

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Spotlight on The Adventures of Tintin – part 1

Posted on January 27, 2022 by I.M. Baytor

Something I would like to do more this year is to write about Eurocomics – especially the old Franco-Belgian bande dessinée albums that were such a huge part of my childhood. Today, let’s have a closer look at just a … Continue reading →

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Animal war comics – part 2

Posted on December 29, 2021 by I.M. Baytor

If you read last week’s post, you know I’ve been discussing war comics that prominently feature animals. This week, let’s start by looking at 2004’s science-gone-wrong mini-series We3, about a trio of weaponized animal cyborgs (a dog, a cat, and … Continue reading →

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Animal war comics – part 1

Posted on December 23, 2021 by I.M. Baytor

Once again, the folks at Dead Reckoning have sent me one of their graphic novels to review: Four-Fisted Tales: Animals in Combat, in which Ben Towle spotlights the historical role of different creatures in various wars. Like last time, I … Continue reading →

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Top 12 foreign-language film noirs

Posted on October 21, 2021 by I.M. Baytor

When I ranked my top 50 noir thrillers last month, I only included movies spoken in English. It was an easy way to curb the size of the list. However, this type of gritty, atmospheric crime stories has found an … Continue reading →

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Gotham Calling’s top 50 film noir

Posted on September 15, 2021 by I.M. Baytor

Today is Gotham Calling’s seventh anniversary! I usually mark these occasions with a compilation of fifty images from Batman comics, showcasing the Dark Knight kicking people in the head or breaking through windows. Since the blog’s identity has been shifting … Continue reading →

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15 gripping Our Army at War covers

Posted on September 9, 2021 by I.M. Baytor

Before going on break, I did a couple of posts spotlighting Joe Kubert’s impressive covers starring Sgt Rock. Yet Kubert was hardly the only genius working at Our Army at War… Since their debut in the early 1950s, those comics … Continue reading →

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COMICS CAN BE AWESOME (23 August 2021)

Posted on August 23, 2021 by I.M. Baytor

A tongue-in-cheek (and somewhat topical) reminder that comics can be awesome…  Captain Midnight (v2) #1

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5 weird Sgt. Rock covers

Posted on July 22, 2021 by I.M. Baytor

A couple of weeks ago, I spotlighted 15 cool covers Joe Kubert did for Sgt. Rock comics back in the 1960s-80s. Many of these featured striking images and original designs, suggesting powerful war stories inside… There were also other covers, … Continue reading →

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15 cool Sgt. Rock covers

Posted on July 8, 2021 by I.M. Baytor

Last month I did a post about war comics, including classics of the genre such as 1950s’ Two-Fisted Tales and Frontline Combat as well as serials running in Battle in the late 1970s/early 1980s (although not yet the brilliant Charley’s War, … Continue reading →

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