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volksjager (volksjager) wrote in scans_daily,
@ 2009-09-23 22:40:00

Current music:	Black mayonaise " I was Dave Bowman"
Entry tags:	char: enemy ace/hans von hammer, title: enemy ace

Enemy Ace :War in Heaven
This literally fell off a shelf and hit me in the head...

The is about Hans VonHammer (The Enemy Ace) in WW2. Normally when you hear about projects like this you just want to cringe,happily this one bucks the trend :)

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	jlroberson 2009-09-24 03:32 am UTC (link)
	And this is one reason I don't dismiss Garth Ennis as some do. (Reply to this) (Thread)

	okkult3000 2009-09-24 03:53 am UTC (link)
	I'm dismissive of most of Ennis' work, but he is not inherently a bad writer. He excels at war stories and, I would suspect, Westerns. I wish he would focus on these genres instead of "Look what fucked up thing I did now! Aren't I irreverent?" Behind all the perversity and shock content, there is a really good story in Preacher. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	seriousfic 2009-09-24 04:14 am UTC (link)
	Basically, he needs someone -- let's call this imaginary person an editor -- to keep him away from anything that involves superheroes, religion, or sodomy. I think Garth Ennis, superheroes, religion, and sodomy would all be quite happy with this arrangement. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	ashtoreth 2009-09-24 04:54 am UTC (link)
	Nice. (Reply to this) (Parent)

	cmdr_zoom 2009-09-24 05:51 am UTC (link)
	A fascinating idea. If only such a person existed. (Reply to this) (Parent)

	halloweenjack 2009-09-24 07:17 pm UTC (link)
	Good luck with that. (Reply to this) (Parent)

jlroberson
2009-09-24 05:07 am UTC (link)

If you think Preacher's shocking, avoid his biggest inspiration on that, Cormac McCarthy. ;)

And he is probably the best writer of war stories since Archie Goodwin. He has an amazingly even hand when writing about soldiers, on all sides. And the empathy he creates for the soldiers' and sailors' situations is unparalleled; Garth Ennis, whatever you may say(and I personally don't care about his shock content, because I don't find it that shocking and sometimes even find it funny in a YOUNG ONES way, like the latest descendant of Jesus" "Humperdidoo!"), has a really good handle on characterization. It also does seem however, that the stories prove he doesn't really have the need of shock content for his stories to work. Even when he's trying to be funny while in "serious" mode, like "Archangel,"(I think--the one about the poor bastard piloting the camship) he still works well and reveals a great deal of subtlety. And a very strong moral sense based on real life, not ideals.

Which makes me think that he's not trying to shock in the other stuff: I believe he just likes writing that way, that he gets a kick out of it. And I don't have a problem with that.

For the record, my two favorites from WAR STORY were the amazing, beautiful and tragic "Nightingale"(especially given Lloyd's art) and "Condors," because while it's very talky, I enjoy it.

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	cmdr_zoom 2009-09-24 05:49 am UTC (link)
	Motto. (Reply to this) (Parent)

	thehefner 2009-09-24 06:54 am UTC (link)
	Seconded. Sometimes it really feels like there are two Ennisesesess. I love the one who wrote stuff like this and utterly loathe the other. (Reply to this) (Parent)

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