Once upon a time, DC comics published a title called Gotham Central, about ordinary cops attempting to go about the ordinary business of police work in a city where the criminals sometimes dressed as clowns or cats and where a man in a bat costume made the work harder than it had to be.
With Men of War, writer Ivan Brandon and artist Tom Derenick seem to be attempting to do for soldiers what Gotham Central did for cops. And it works. Narrow panels feel claustrophobic and add a sense of urgency to the combat scene around which the narrative is built. Meanwhile, a legitimate superhuman threat looms in the distance. Who is he? Is he on our side or theirs? These questions are never answered, and it's frankly not important. This is a book about soldiers, not superheroes, and those soldiers have a job to do.
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