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Preview: Soldier Stories

Soldier Stories

(W) Rev. William J. Bellamy, Jalysa Conway, Brian Anthony, Megan Ferrell Burke (A) Cecilia La Valvo, Annapaola Martello, Jonathan Bivens, Arturo Lauria (CA) Billy Tucci
In Shops: Nov 09, 2022
SRP: $5.99

SOLDIER STORIES features four compelling tales of military conflict, all written by veterans who served. These first-person accounts of real-life warfare have been reimagined across a variety of genres from sci-fi to horror to personal memoir all written by veterans who served from the Vietnam era to Afghanistan. What’s it like to wait out a chemical attack? How does it feel to abandon your allies? In a world of push-button warfare, has killing gotten too easy? How do you go on when the war is over but the struggle is not? These are personal stories, compelling stories, stories that will haunt and surprise you. Because every soldier has a story.

Soldier Stories

Marc Silvestri’s Soldier Stories cover revealed!

Top Cow is giving veterans a platform to share their experiences in the service through sequential storytelling with a new anthology Soldier Stories, coming this November 9th, 2022. With the release less than a month away, Top Cow has revealed the Cover B variant by artist Marc Silvestri.

The anthology will feature an excerpt by the late Denny O’Neil, writer and editor of many marvel and DC Comics, including The Amazing Spider-man and Green Lantern/Green Arrow.

Soldier Stories features four compelling tales of military conflict, all written by veterans who served from the Vietnam era to Afghanistan. These first-person accounts of real-life warfare have been reimagined across a variety of genres from sci-fi to horror to personal memoir. What’s it like to wait out a chemical attack? How does it feel to abandon your allies? In a world of push-button warfare, has killing gotten too easy? How do you go on when the war is over but the struggle is not?These are personal stories, compelling stories, stories that will haunt and surprise you. Because every soldier has a story.

  • “Terps” by Brian Anthony and John Bivens
  • “Game Over” by Jalysa Conway, Annapaola Martello, and K. Michael Russell
  • “All Clear” by Megan Ferrell Burke, Arturo Lauria, and Kelly Fitzpatrick
  • “The Great Man” by Rev. William J. Bellamy, Cecilia Lo Valvo, and Ryan Cody
Soldier Stories Marc Silvestri

Veterans will tell their stories in Top Cow’s Soldier Stories

Top Cow gives alternative veteran voices a platform to tell their stories in Soldier Stories. The anthology is set to release the week of Veterans Day on November 9th to honor veterans, including the creators of this anthology: Brian Anthony (USA), Jalysa Conway (UAF), Megan Ferrell Burke (USMC), and Rev. William J. Bellamy (ARNG). Ken Pisani (AMP’D), is a Los Angeles Times best-selling author integral in organizing and making this anthology happen.

These stories will allow readers to step briefly into the boots of men and women who bravely served, to witness heightened versions of the sacrifices that they made during their time in the military. Soldier Stories features four compelling tales of military conflict, all written by veterans who served from the Vietnam era to Afghanistan. These first-person accounts of real-life warfare have been reimagined a cross a variety of genres from sci-fi to horror to personal memoir. What’s it like to wait out a chemical attack? How does it feel to abandon your allies? In a world of push-button warfare, has killing gotten too easy? How do you go on when the war is over but the struggle is not?

These are personal stories, compelling stories, stories that will haunt and surprise you. Because every soldier has a story.

  • Terps by Brian Anthony and John Bivens
  • Game Over by Jalysa Conway, Annapaola Martello, and K. Michael Russell
  • All Clear by Megan Ferrell Burke, Arturo Lauria, and Kelly Fitzpatrick
  • The Great Man by Rev. William J. Bellamy, Cecilia Lo Valvo, and Ryan Cody

Soldier Stories will come to comic shops on November 9th and features covers by Billy Tucci and Marc Silvestri.

Soldier Stories

Review: Colonus TPB

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The future: a dying Earth has been abandoned, the poor and weak left behind. While Earth’s elite survivors colonized Mars, its outcasts—the miscreants, criminals, fringe-dwellers, crackpot scientists, and sociopaths—fled inward, to Venus (“a place fit for scumbags”). Three generations later, the denizens of Venus, strengthened by hardship forged in brutality and hellish conditions, are thriving. Attracted by the successful launch of Venus’s second floating “cloud city,” the corporate fascists of the Mars Council launch an insurgency for control of Venus . . . but Braxton, the third generation leader of this colony of outlaws, will fight to save his family dynasty.

Time and nature hardened the first people of Venus. And after three generations, of making their planet habitable Mars wants a share. Unfortunately, they are willing to engage in murder, conspiracies, and rigging elections to get it. Even going to as far as to attack during a sacred event to Venus. This is the world of Colonus that writer Ken Pisani has created. Despite all the hard futuristic science fiction roots within the graphic novel, you can also see some allegories to modern times. It continues a fine honored tradition in science fiction.

Arturo Lauria‘s art style reminds me of Mignola’s art style. There is a lot of contrast between the limited shots of the Martian landscape, and the much crueler Venus landscape. Even between the people of Mars, and the people of Venus.

Story: Ken Pisani Art: Arturo Lauria
Story: 9 Art: 9 Overall: 9 Recommendation: Buy

Dark Horse Comics provided Graphic Policy with a FREE copy for review