Battlefields #5

The second chapter of "The Firefly and His Majesty" arc lands with a cover that says everything about the weight of armored warfare — a heavily camouflaged German tank, its long gun barrel thrusting skyward, positioned before a stark black Balkenkreuz cross painted on a brick wall. Garry Leach's cover art renders the machine with meticulous, almost reverent detail, grounding this Dynamite mature-readers series firmly in the gritty texture of World War II. With Garth Ennis writing and Carlos Ezquerra on interior art, this 2010 issue promises the kind of unsentimental, soldier-level storytelling that makes Battlefields one of the more compelling war comics of its era.