Hulk Smash #2

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Comments

[kd_the_movie]

Huh. This took un-expected turn as a stark reminder of the burden of leadership but also as a inspiring story of Officership in the US military :)

[jmacq1]

Ennis strikes me as a guy that has a soft spot for the folks in the trenches. He's clear-eyed in knowing that some of them can be scumbags and some of them can be heroes but most are smack dab in that wide gulf of "in-between."

[beyondthefringe]

Garth Ennis seems to have two major modes when it comes to his military-themed stories (which also seep into his other work, as seen in Hitman or Preacher or The Boys): hard men making hard choices, or weak men making weak choices with hard consequences...

[ap0cryphal]

It is in a sense peak Ennis to throw in an elegy for Vietnam as a meat grinder in a story with US military characters. Afghanistan, for the Russians. He's sympathetic to the grunts, hard on the officers, and full of contempt for the folks up on high, miles away, giving orders.

See also: Born; Valley Forge, Valley Forge; The Platoon.

Does anyone know when this was published exactly?

[dr_archeville]

#1 was published March 2001, #2 in April 2001.

[locuatico]

Huh. Kinda Makes me wonder how he felt about this story after 9/11

[ap0cryphal]

Well, Born was published in 2003, so....about the same. Except, if anything, angrier.