Blitzkrieg was a different comic book, one which focused on World War II through the lens of the Nazis themselves. The goal was not to be sympathetic to the Reich, but to find new angles to tell stories which had been told in one form or another for decades. In the second issues the focus was on the Warsaw ghetto uprising when the Jewish population which was persistently being shipped to death camps rose up and waged guerilla war for some weeks against the might of the Nazi war machine.
What I found most striking about this story written by Robert Kanigher and drawn by Ric Estrada is how much the story reminded me of the later Joe Kubert masterpiece Yossel, a work which I reviewed a few weekends ago. There are a number of structural similarities including most interestingly an escapee who describes for the Jews of the ghetto the horrors of the death camps. Also, the hero here is a young boy. Kubert drew a magnificent cover which captures the tension of any uprising of just how it's best to used violence effectively.
Note: This post originally appeared at Rip Jagger's Other Dojo.
I only ever had issues 1 and 4 of this comic but I really liked it for Eric Estrada's art, he really excelled in on this title especially in "The Huns" back up strip.
ReplyDeleteI'm a big Estrada fan. I really think that his pencils under Wally Wood's inks on the 1970's All-Star Comics revival had a bit more energy than did the work Wood did alone, though that too was lovely.
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