Awesome modern military themed graphic novels!

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Armchair_Marine

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Just reading these right now and thought you all should know about them-

Twilight X (set in an alternate 2002 were World War 3 against Soviets came and went) http://www.antarctic-press.com/html/version_01/viewitem.php?id=4564&bk=store.php?id=Twilight+X

Twilight X War http://www.antarctic-press.com/html/version_01/viewitem.php?id=4887&bk=store.php?id=Twilight+X

It's anime style characters but with beautifully drawn military hardware. The creator was also inspired by Twilight 2000, the military RPG of the 80s.

Some preview art - http://www.antarctic-press.com/html/version_01/viewgallery.php?id=308

http://www.antarctic-press.com/html/version_01/viewgallery.php?id=309
 
Twilight X is pretty good, I've flipped through it a few times.

Another good comic out at the moment that catches the feel of BF Evo quite well is DMZ, which is set in a near-future USA wracked by civil war.
 
Lorcan Nagle said:
Twilight X is pretty good, I've flipped through it a few times.

Another good comic out at the moment that catches the feel of BF Evo quite well is DMZ, which is set in a near-future USA wracked by civil war.
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I saw previews of DMZ, looks interesting but I can't help but think that it has some sort of anti-military/anti-american slant.
 
It's certianly not Anti-Military, and I suppose it could be seen as anti-american if you swing that way politically (Brian Wood, the writer's certainly falling on the left side of the spectrum, but while he often complains about the increasing level of influence corporations have over politics he doesn't use the book as an anti-bush rant or anything). It's more about the people on the ground caught up in a war that doesn't care much about their safety, if it means they can pop a few more of the other guys.

the current arc is about the main character (a journalist who covers Manhattan, now a vicious no man's land) interviewing a squad of soldiers who inadvertantly slaughtered an antiwar demonstration. While that breif synopsis does make it seem like Wood's going to pull a whole GRARGH, all soldiers are murderers story, the first part tells the story through the eyes of a young soldier who was in the wrong place and made a bad decision and is trying to live with it - it's very human and this soldier is portrayed in a very sympathetic light.
 
'Nother cool one - SOCOM:Seal Team Seven http://www.amazon.com/SOCOM-Seven-M-Zachary-Sherman/dp/1582405867/ref=sr_1_1/102-8660506-6194507?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1177712048&sr=8-1

Modern day U.S. SEALS vs the kingdom of ATLANTIS! The guy who wrote it was wit the Marines and worked with Industrial Light and Magic.
 
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