Taking Sides: Johnny Red v. Charley's War

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Charley's War: gritty First World War story in which Charley Bourne struggles to survive in the trenches. Very well regarded. Featured evil Captain Snell as main villain.

Johnny Red: vast panoramic Russian Front story about Johnny "Red" Surname, a British fighter pilot who, in an unlikely sequence of events finds himself flying with the Red Air Force. In a curious turn of events it transpires that Soviet & German airmen speak the same language and habitually tune in to each other's radio frequencies to shout things like "Die Ivan Die!".

I'm undecided.

― DV, Monday, 15 October 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

I never read the old UK war comics and now I wish I had. One of the few pleasures of the current crisis though is reading the reports from the Northern Alliance in The Guardian which read like old Rogue Trooper dialogue.

― Tom, Monday, 15 October 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Charley's War, but to be honest I can't really compare because CW was reprinted in the Eagle, which was revamped and went monthly in the early 90s, and which I also WUVVED, whereas my only experience with Johnny Red is from the 1984 Battle Annual which I picked up at a jumble sale. I wasn't very impressed, being a 10 year old self- appointed aerial warfare expert.

― DG, Monday, 15 October 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

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