Descrição

The Lion & the Eagle #1 centers on the boredom common to military life, a time of speculation and soldier’s stories. The punctuations of the terror are confined to memories and an epigraph. Some might think a war comic should be axiomatic, shoot first, talk later. For co-creators, writer, Garth Ennis, and cartoonist, PJ Holden, to deny the action, military or otherwise, takes the similar sort of intestinal fortitude that can often be found in the combat soldier. Before pinning any medals on either Ennis or Holden for their bravery (if anyone on the creative team deserves recognition, it’s letterer Rob Steen) to lay back, it would be equally as foolish to dismiss the first issue of this mini-series as mere table setting so de rigueur in today’s wait-for-the-trade serialized comics. That said? There’s still too much damn talking in this comic.