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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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	abagnale008 2009-09-24 03:02 am UTC (link)
	This was my first Enemy Ace comic, I enjoyed it very much. Only had one nitpick was that Von Hammer didn't do anything about the concentration camp other than inform his soldiers. Question, does anybody know what the sign on the camp fence says? Thanks (Reply to this) (Thread)

	thokstar 2009-09-24 03:07 am UTC (link)
	Question, does anybody know what the sign on the camp fence says? Something like "Work makes you free." (Reply to this) (Parent)

	kamino_neko 2009-09-24 03:07 am UTC (link)
	Arbeit Macht Frei - Work Brings Freedom. A number of concentration camps had such signs, notably Auschwitz and Dachau. (Reply to this) (Parent)

	volksjager 2009-09-24 03:09 am UTC (link)
	"Work brings freedom" It was on the gate of 17 of the camps. (Reply to this) (Parent)

	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)

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	okkult3000 2009-09-24 03:54 am UTC (link)
	I liked War in Heaven, but I think Wary Idyll is a superior story. Maybe it's just prettier. (Reply to this) (Thread)

	okkult3000 2009-09-24 03:54 am UTC (link)
	By "Wary," I of course mean "War." (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

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	thehefner 2009-09-24 06:55 am UTC (link)
	Seconding this one also. I personally find the story even more moving that this one, which is pretty goddamned powerful in its own right. (Reply to this) (Parent)

	jlroberson 2009-09-25 05:52 am UTC (link)
	War Idyll is just different, but not terribly. I never saw it as not on a line with this one; to me it's the same Von Hammer. (Reply to this) (Parent)

	lieut_kettch 2009-09-24 04:13 am UTC (link)
	I've always wondered how a Me 262/Gloster Meteor dogfight would've turned out. (Reply to this) (Thread)

	volksjager 2009-09-24 05:29 am UTC (link)
	There were two encounters. The Me262 flew rings around it. The meteor was a jet, but it was no faster than any other piston driven aircraft of the day. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

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	aaron_bourque 2009-09-24 04:14 am UTC (link)
	MOTHERFUCKING RUSS HEATH. HOLY FUCK. RUSS. FUCKING. HEATH. Man. Aaron "The Mad Whitaker" Bourque; I KNEW that art looked familiar. Russ Heath. Damn, man. I'm 4 years old again. Fucking Russ Heath. (Reply to this) (Thread)

	halloweenjack 2009-09-24 07:23 pm UTC (link)
	Did you see the issue he drew for Rick Veitch's Greyshirt: Indigo Sunset? It concerns an elderly comic book artist who is ghosting some paintings for a Roy Lichtensteinesque pop artist (Lichtenstein was famous for appropriating panels from the work of comics artists, including... Russ Heath). I can only imagine the kick that Heath might have gotten out of that. (Reply to this) (Parent)

	jlroberson 2009-09-25 05:51 am UTC (link)
	And consider: he was the FILL-IN for Chris Weston here. Frankly, as much as Weston is a good choice for this, I'd have been happy with Heath in both parts. (Reply to this) (Parent)

	dr_hermes 2009-09-24 04:46 am UTC (link)
	Well done, worth reading. That can't be the same wolf who appeared before Von Hammer back in WW I, can it? Maybe it's really a spirit guide or totem or something... but I always like the wolf appearing in the original stories as a kindred soul. (Reply to this) (Thread)

	volksjager 2009-09-24 05:31 am UTC (link)
	I always seem to recall the classic wolf as being white. I was first drawn to that aspect of how they came together. The wolf chose Hammer signifying that they were the same ,alike as the hunter killer. (Reply to this) (Parent)

	proteus_lives 2009-09-24 05:53 am UTC (link)
	Loved this mini. Ennis does WWII so well. In my perfect world Ennis would write only war stories and Punisher. (Reply to this) (Thread)

	volksjager 2009-09-24 07:34 pm UTC (link)
	Punisher/Sgt.Rock crossover ??? Frank can't be the first member of his family to join the Marines ... (Reply to this) (Parent)

psychop_rex
2009-09-24 11:02 am UTC (link)

I kinda miss the flying ace outfit, but otherwise, this is damned good Von Hammer. I always liked the portrayal of him as an honest and honorable man doing his best to uphold his morals and honor in the bloody, dishonorable business that is war - and if WW1 was that, then WW2 was that times ten. I should pick this up one of these days.
Also, this is kind of a weird question, but does 'hammer' translate to anything in German? Is there a German word that sounds like 'hammer'? I mean, I know that the name was chosen by English-speaking guys who just wanted something that sounded awesome, but I can't help but wonder just what it would translate to in German. 'Hans of the Hammer', right? Something like that? Therefore, if 'hammer' means anything in German, it would be interesting to know.

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	ruthk 2009-09-24 02:47 pm UTC (link)
	"Hammer" means precisely the same thing in German. :) (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

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	volksjager 2009-09-24 04:22 pm UTC (link)
	Von, is just a Prussian title derived from the Viking "Rus" that was settles by them in the 600's ( a Rus is just the name for a settlement,hence in Russia the czar was said to be "czar of ALL the Russia's) (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

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	halloweenjack 2009-09-24 07:26 pm UTC (link)
	Between this and a similar story that Ennis did for War Stories that featured a Tiger tank crew, I get the feeling that Ennis would like to be able to admire the Germans because of their bitchin' equipment and mad fighting skillz, but, you know, the Holocaust. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

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	artnouveauho.livejournal.com 2009-09-24 07:07 pm UTC (link)
	I was just reading these two books last night. So, SO good. This is what got me into Enemy Ace. (Reply to this) (Thread)

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	joysweeper 2009-09-24 11:48 pm UTC (link)
	Interesting. This is pretty much a textbook Heel Realization. Poor guy. So, how does it end? (Reply to this) (Thread)

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