Army@Love #4

Vertigo's sharp-edged war satire continues with issue #4 of Army@Love, and the cover by Rick Veitch and Gary Erskine sets the tone perfectly — a pair of elegant legs in white stockings and heels, carrying a "Motivation Morale Hot Zone" bag adorned with a caduceus, while a vehicle erupts in massive flames in the background. The collision of pin-up glamour and battlefield chaos captures exactly the kind of darkly comic absurdity the Washington Post called "a fresh, overheated satirical stew… Grade A-." If you've been following Veitch's biting commentary on war, consumerism, and desire, this 2007 Mature Readers issue is exactly where you want to be.