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Johnny Red: The Hurricane by Garth Ennis, Keith Burns
5.0

I feckin loved Johnny Red, the tough British fighter pilot in the Russian squadron at mauling edge of the Eastern Front, fighting every day to survive the best efforts of both the Germans and the Russian armies to kill them, a classic war comic set-up of plucky warriors surviving the guns of the enemy and the schemes of their own officers with ingenuity and determination. If there was a wish list for the writers you'd want to get to handle the loving restoration of an old war-horse like that, it was probably exactly one name long, and they got him: Garth Ennis, none better with his in-depth knowledge and over-riding affection for grunts doing their best to get through the grim brutality and horror of it all with body and soul intact. So Johnny Red takes to the sky once more, irrepressible and unbeatable, with all the stalwarts of Falcon Squadron bringing death to the Nazis.