Tops and Bottoms 6/3/2024

Morning,

Just a quickie today.

Another week of comics. I’ve been doing a few comics rereads and am currently working my way through volume 1 of The Avengers. I’ve just hit issue 115 and am finding the Englehart Swordsman/Mantis storyline pretty interesting. I think I’ll head over to his JLA issues as an aside to see what he continues over there shortly. Both are great characters who I feel like have been given a bit of a short shrift in the televisual/movie world.

Meanwhile, over at the ACP we had a good chat about so-called Silent Issues with special guest Forpey. As usual it all gets a little lively’ Have a listen.

Off to the task at hand. Another exercise in seeing what I’ve been reading this week. The best and the worst.

Tops.

I really need to read more Mad Cave comics if this one is anything to go by. So good in fact that I was checking the credits to see if it was a BD translation.

An old man out walking his dog finds a diary in a den of sleeping wolves. It’s the story of a young Londoner posted to the trenches of the Great War. He is sent to work with a special Unit who are not what they seem.

This is a horror story that weaponises the bleakness of that horrific war as part of an atmosphere of bleakness, death, barbarism and cannibalism. One of the best things I have read this year easily. The growth of the lone soldier shows at every page turn with one major moment taking his innocence.