The Army Times has an interesting feature on Rick Veitch’s new Vertigo series, Army@Love. In addition to summarizing the series and delving into Veitch’s history, it also name drops Joe Kubert:
But where Kubert presented a serious picture of war, often through the experiences of the iconic NCO Sgt. Rock, Veitch is taking his troops into a kind of war theater of the absurd.
Veitch drew inspiration, in part, from the state of global politics, he said, and “imagining where it might go.”
What came out is a dark look at war, seen through the experiences of the men and women of a deployed New Jersey National Guard unit, their families and corporate officials who have the job of “selling” the war to an increasingly unsupportive American public. It’s an MTV war — there’s even a hit tune that everyone wants to hear; you just crank up the sex and noise to inspire the warriors. These soldiers, Veitch said in a column at the end of issue No. 1, “are a rowdy, bawdy bunch, brought up on Paris and Tommy Lee, addicted to adrenalin (sic) like it was diet cola, and who only want to f—, fight and footrace (except on Sunday, when they don’t footrace).”
It also wonders what American soldiers might make of the book, though it doesn’t come up with any real answers. Still, it’s an interesting question.
June 11th, 2007 at 6:12 pm
This book is awful. Please don’t inflict it on our troops. They’ve suffered enough.