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Monday, February 28, 2005
Disappearing comics.
I was reminded by this because of the last post. I have to ask, what ever happened to this book:
From Marvel's solicitations for January 2005
COMBAT ZONE: TRUE TALES OF GIs IN IRAQ #1 & 2
Written by Karl Zinsmeister, penciled by Dan Jurgens, cover by Esad Ribic.
Combat comics are taken to a whole new level! Three months in the lives of the 82nd Airborne in the Battle for Iraq are chronicled in this groundbreaking series by long-time embedded journalist Karl Zinsmeister ("Boots on the Ground: A Month with the 82nd Airborne in the Battle for Iraq") and penciler Dan Jurgens. In chapter one, "Paratroopers Over The Border," American paratroopers in northern Kuwait must contend with choking sandstorms, high-adrenaline training, and the hair-trigger tension that dominates the tense run-up to war in Iraq. War arrives in deadly fashion on their doorstep -- in the shape of ballistic missiles. To survive, they must rely on the skills of men whom they've never met, but whose fates are inexorably linked to their own. In chapter two, "Hair Trigger in the Desert," spend a tense night with Cavalry troopers assigned to guard a secret command post just outside an Iraqi city they have been ordered to liberate.
32 pages, $2.99.
The third issue was meant to be out two weeks ago but I don't think it did. The book doesn't appear in any more solicitations. Rich Johnston revealed that Zinmeister was the editor-in-chief for the magazine of the right-wing think tank American Enterprise Institute. Mike found this thread on a conservative webpage where a comic book reader tries to get people to pre-order it (I'm betting that didn't work out with a bunch of non-comic book readers).
But, just like Crossgen's American Power, nothing came out (thanks to Bjorn for reminding me of that). I guess all you need is a few sentences of copy in Previews to get people talking. After all, these are the things that really matter people. They really, really do.
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