The Light Brigade - Part 1 Author:Peter J. Tomasi Learning of the death of his wife in a stateside accident, American soldier Chris Stavros has only one goal: to get home to his young son any way he can. But fate has other plans: a blinding white-hot energy mass hurtles to Earth just as German troops advance on the Americans' position. Within, two mighty figures wage a battle over a gleaming, t... more »imeless object...
This collected edition of a four-issue 2004 miniseries may be the best mainstream comic of the year, an outstanding achievement at all levels. The German troops who overrun an isolated pocket of U.S. soldiers during the winter of 19441945 are worse than Nazis; they're the descendants of fallen angels who now see a chance to steal the sword of God. The surviving Americans, led by an immortal Roman centurion in disguise, must fight these supernatural, almost-indestructable foes.« less