Comments on: 365 Reasons to Love Comics #153

By: n/a

n/a — Tue, 03 Feb 2009 01:25:59 +0000

i think that a movie would be a great idea. as for the actor, what about that guy that played 2 face in batman dark knight?

By: Mr. Alan W Graham

Mr. Alan W Graham — Tue, 01 Jul 2008 14:40:01 +0000

I procured two copies of "The Unknown Soldier" No.218 Aug & No. 238 plus "World at War " &
"Fightin Army." DC has excellent comics!
Todays youth could gain a better understand of our past by reading theses mags.
Exposing the younger school kids to theses exceptional comics will enhance their reading skills and foster
the outstanding American values of God, family and country.

By: Mark_Lucas_TBP

Mark_Lucas_TBP — Mon, 04 Jun 2007 16:42:19 +0000

U.S. was hardcore. In one issue, after he had defected to the Nazi's he took out Sgt. Rock & Easy Company, the Haunted Tank, and the Losers all by himself, when they came to kill him before he could spill secrets to Hitler. Gravedigger and Mademoiselle Marie may have been there too.

He the set them all free later as he revealed that he was really a triple agent still working for the USA. Then, one of WWII's best ever team ups kicked some major Nazi butt.

By: Scavenger

Scavenger — Mon, 04 Jun 2007 16:14:23 +0000

Seek out Priest's Unknown Soldier

It's essentially his take on a real world Captain America.

By: Ben Herman

Ben Herman — Mon, 04 Jun 2007 14:35:48 +0000

Wait, I thought that the Human Torch killed Hitler. History textbooks completely fail to deal with discrepancies like this. This is why American students are falling behind the Japanese.

Bwah-ha-ha-ha!!! Too funny. Thank you for making my day. I feel much better now

By: MarkAndrew

MarkAndrew — Sun, 03 Jun 2007 23:57:35 +0000

"In researching and writing these entries for War Comics Week, Iâ€™ve become convinced that DCâ€™s war books were quite probably the greatest things they ever published."

Hear, hear!

I mean, there's been other patches of brilliance, like Sheldon Mayer's Humor Books and Sandman, but in terms of consistent quality across a whole imprint? (I'm not sure of the word.) DC's War books are unmatched by the rest of the company's output.

But then again Joe Kubert is possibly my single favorite artist in comics ever. So biased.

By: Johnny Bacardi

Johnny Bacardi — Sun, 03 Jun 2007 22:17:31 +0000

Unknown Soldier didn't really hit its stride until David Michelinie took over as writer, along with Gerry Talaoc on art, sometime around Star Spangled #183. Michelinie write his exploits with a nice sense of irony and some clever plot twists, and Talaoc is, in my opinion anyway, one of the most underrated of DC's artists, Filipino or not, of the 70's. I think the first half dozen or so Michelinie/Talaoc stories are in the Showcase Presents: Unknown Soldier tome that came out last year.

By: Danny Wind

Danny Wind — Sun, 03 Jun 2007 18:33:53 +0000

"Thatâ€™s rightâ€“ in the final issue of his series, the Unknown Soldier snuck into Hitlerâ€™s bunker, capped Der FÃ¼hrer, made it look like suicide (in order to have Adolf perceived as a coward), and got the hell out."

Wait, I thought that the Human Torch killed Hitler. History textbooks completely fail to deal with discrepancies like this. This is why American students are falling behind the Japanese.

By: Greg Hatcher

Greg Hatcher — Sun, 03 Jun 2007 18:31:25 +0000

In researching and writing these entries for War Comics Week, Iâ€™ve become convinced that DCâ€™s war books were quite probably the greatest things they ever published.

In terms of a display of sheer comics craftsmanship I would absolutely agree. And the Unknown Soldier was a solid B-list favorite of mine. Always reliably good. I got so revved up writing the "grindhouse" column that I rushed out and got the Showcase -- I don't know about you, but writing this stuff always seems to result in me spending money on more of it -- and you know, those were actually a hell of a lot BETTER than I remembered.

What I really want is SHOWCASE FEATURING ARCHIE GOODWIN. He could do no wrong at DC, especially writing the war stuff. His Haunted Tank stories with Sam Glanzman were a heaping helping of awesome.

By: stealthwise

stealthwise — Sun, 03 Jun 2007 16:45:12 +0000

I would use Gary Oldman, as the guy's incredibly diverse, could pull off many of the masks himself, and has great voice talent overall.

By: Jon H

Jon H — Sun, 03 Jun 2007 15:53:07 +0000

"I think Unknown Soldier would make a great movie, you know, if you found an actor who only played the lead half the time and didnâ€™t mind not showing his face for the entirety of the film. Any suggestions?"

Hugo Weaving's already done that (V), so he's out.

By: Paul

Paul — Sun, 03 Jun 2007 15:08:41 +0000

Ennis' miniseries was great, yeah.

By: Rohan Williams

Rohan Williams — Sun, 03 Jun 2007 13:43:03 +0000

That's an awesome idea, Ian! It'd definitely be a lot cooler than the actual Ocean's 11/12/13.

By: Mike McGee

Mike McGee — Sun, 03 Jun 2007 03:50:05 +0000

The Unknown Soldier Showcase is the anti-TWTTF. Pure awesome.

By: Tom Fitzpatrick

Tom Fitzpatrick — Sun, 03 Jun 2007 03:41:46 +0000

I truly loved Ennis' version of Unknown Soldier.

By: Ian Astheimer

Ian Astheimer — Sun, 03 Jun 2007 01:28:59 +0000

Bonus Edited-In Content Addition!: I think Unknown Soldier would make a great movie, you know, if you found an actor who only played the lead half the time and didnâ€™t mind not showing his face for the entirety of the film. Any suggestions?

Turn it into an ensemble piece, with a different actor for each mask. It'd be like Ocean's 11/12/13, but they'd all be playing the same guy.