War Is Hell: The First Flight of the Phantom Eagle

Garth Ennis and Howard Chaykin team up for this 2009 Marvel one-shot, a brutal and revisionist war story that reimagines the classic Phantom Eagle as a haunted, reckless pilot in World War I. Instead of a glamorous ace, readers get a grimly realistic look at the horrors of aerial combat, filtered through Ennis's signature cynicism and Chaykin's sharp, expressive art. It stands as a potent, standalone deconstruction of heroism within the Marvel Universe’s war comics tradition.