Written by Garth EnnisArt by Carlos Ezquerra
As a series of individual moments, this title is quite standard Garth Ennis war story fare. There is a tough-as-nails sergeant, a group of likeable, but inexperienced tank soldiers, and some pretty twisted moments ("I say, d'you know you've a chap in your tracks?" being pure Ennis gold).
The problem with this particular iteration of Battlefields is that the story just seems to be a string of these moments, with no real larger plot being furthered. The action shifts from our tank crew to different groups of British soldiers strung out along the Normandy offensive, but there are no caption boxes to inform us of the change of setting. The art doesn't help that much with this, as, like in many war movies, the characters kind of all look the same.
The book is enjoyable, I just have come to expect slightly better.
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