Enemy Ace: War in Heaven
DC · 2001 · 2 issues
About the series
In 2001, Garth Ennis returned to DC's war comics legacy with this two-issue miniseries, revisiting the legendary German fighter pilot Hans von Hammer—the Enemy Ace—as he is drawn into a brutal, morally complex conflict decades after World War I. With Chris Weston on layouts and Christian Alamy on finishes, the story grounds von Hammer's cold, principled code of aerial combat against the industrialized slaughter of a new war, while Russ Heath's cover art pays tribute to the series' classic roots. A somber, unflinching meditation on honor and the cost of violence, War in Heaven stands as a late-period addition to the Enemy Ace mythos that resonates with Ennis's signature grim humanism.