War Heroes #1-3 (Of 6)

is a six-issue limited series from Image Comics, written by Mark Millar, with art by Tony Harris. Its first issue was published way back in June 2008. Set in an alternate timeline during the coalition wars in Afghanistan and Iraq, the detonation of a nuclear bomb in Washington D.C. prompts the United States administration to expand the coalition War on Terror to include Iran, as well as institute martial law in the United States. As American casualties increase, morale and public support declines with the economy, reducing America's standing in the world. Sounds familiar? The story is based upon the heroic feats of Gunner "Q" who received an honorable discharge from the United States Army on May 21, 2007. Millar has said "War Heroes is everything I've been leading up to with , , , and " and "This is what my would have been if Bryan and I had stuck around." Reception and reviews were positive, even though issue #2 was released September 17, 2008, more than three months thereafter. And more than a year later (with almost monthly solicitations of release), we finally have issue #3, actually released October 7, 2009. I'm interested enough in this story to wait for issue #4, but I hope the periods between releases do not make an arithmetic progression...

After weeks of training, the recruits finally get to try out their super-powers on real-life targets, as Project Olympus marches en masse across the Middle East, much to the horror of the world at large. But things are not as simple as they seem, and Calvin's poster-boy brother is up to something. --

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