Enemy Ace: War in Heaven #1
"War in Heaven, Part 1" kicks off Garth Ennis’s gripping wartime saga with a grounded, intense look at Von Hammer, a pilot who returns to the skies not for ideology, but duty. Drawn back by a desperate comrade, he commands with skill and precision, yet finds himself at odds with a Nazi subordinate—his own moral compass clashing with the regime he once rejected. When a crash behind enemy lines forces him to confront the brutal reality of German atrocities on the Eastern Front, the cost of war becomes undeniably personal. Illustrated with sharp detail by Christian Alamy and Chris Weston, and colored with stark realism by Matt Hollingsworth, the issue’s cover by Alamy captures the weight of the moment.
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Von Hammer despises Nazism, but agrees to rejoin the Air Force when an old comrade pleads that the young pilots need him. He leads and performs superbly, but clashes repeatedly with a Nazi subordinate. Crashing behind enemy lines awakens him to the horrible suffering that Germans are inflicting on Russians.
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