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scans_dailyTriggerwarning for real but not very often covered war crimes...
Last year's Shadow miniseries by Garth Ennis mixed things up a little by departing from the standard 1930s setting (ie American gangsters or Nazis) and follows along from what was going on in China during the time period, due to the Shadow having received his training there.
Ennis, something of an expert when it comes to military history, covers a part of the prelude to World War Two that doesn't really get as much exposure in the West than the closer atrocities of the Third Reich...
Later in the story, a Chinese bandit chief who has been contracted by the Japanese army (and former associate of the younger of the two Japanese officers, the two having been gangsters in Shanghai together in the years following WWI) decides to call out the... "zealous" commanding officer (who has been chosen by the Emperor personally to head this expedition) for his Hypocrisy.
Wong the Warlord thinks that it's amusing that the officer would look down on his behaviour while allowing his troops to take part in the above activities as they head further into mainland China.
Yes, the mental disconnect here is enough to baffle two hardened criminals.
A possible reason why things such as the comfort women aren't brought up more is covered in a previous Ennis book, the Dear Billy storyline in Battlefields, which I might post here later. Though that book is... easy to misintepret.
Last year's Shadow miniseries by Garth Ennis mixed things up a little by departing from the standard 1930s setting (ie American gangsters or Nazis) and follows along from what was going on in China during the time period, due to the Shadow having received his training there.
Ennis, something of an expert when it comes to military history, covers a part of the prelude to World War Two that doesn't really get as much exposure in the West than the closer atrocities of the Third Reich...
Later in the story, a Chinese bandit chief who has been contracted by the Japanese army (and former associate of the younger of the two Japanese officers, the two having been gangsters in Shanghai together in the years following WWI) decides to call out the... "zealous" commanding officer (who has been chosen by the Emperor personally to head this expedition) for his Hypocrisy.
Wong the Warlord thinks that it's amusing that the officer would look down on his behaviour while allowing his troops to take part in the above activities as they head further into mainland China.
Yes, the mental disconnect here is enough to baffle two hardened criminals.
A possible reason why things such as the comfort women aren't brought up more is covered in a previous Ennis book, the Dear Billy storyline in Battlefields, which I might post here later. Though that book is... easy to misintepret.
