Commando comic!

[gareth h]

This is starting to become a dirty secret, I loved the war comics as a kid, I’ve just discovered Commando on my readly app, and …well…can’t stop reading them, anybody else addicted?

[Fastchas]

My brother bought these when he was a kid, I never bothered with them. Then one day, I had nothing to read so I picked one up out of his collection.
Devoured it in one sitting, then went into his box to read them all.
Then I started on his 2000AD comic.

[Wildfire]

I used to get Air Ace as a kid. Loved it!

[coppice]

I've been triggered ! I was a serial consumer of this guff until I was about 12 ,I suppose. Square jawed Brits - usually 'ard but fair NCOs - controlling burning planes , parachuting with knives between their teeth, and bayonetting and grenading ...err... Japs and Krauts aplenty. Dialogue was economical , and the enemy only said stuff like 'Achtung Englander' or (In the case of bespectacled Nips ) 'NNNNGGGG I die !!'

No cliche unspared , no national stereotype ignored. I bet Lee Anderson still reads them

[Alex Z]

I don’t read all of them, but as an occasional nostalgia hit they are great. I don’t remember there being any scifi stories back in the 80s, but there’s a few now that I’ve enjoyed.

How much is fresh content and how much is repeats?

[gareth h]

coppice said:

I've been triggered ! I was a serial consumer of this guff until I was about 12 ,I suppose. Square jawed Brits - usually 'ard but fair NCOs - controlling burning planes , parachuting with knives between their teeth, and bayonetting and grenading ...err... Japs and Krauts aplenty. Dialogue was economical , and the enemy only said stuff like 'Achtung Englander' or (In the case of bespectacled Nips ) 'NNNNGGGG I die !!'

No cliche unspared , no national stereotype ignored. I bet Lee Anderson still reads them

I remember as a (probably) 6 year old being in a public toilet with my dad when a Japanese gent came in, cue me in dramatic stage whisper “look dad it’s a Nip” much to everybodys (except my) embarrassment!
In my defence that was exactly how they were described in my weekly edition of Victor comic.

[Countdown]

gareth h said:

This is starting to become a dirty secret, I loved the war comics as a kid, I ve just discovered Commando on my readly app, and well can t stop reading them, anybody else addicted?

I felt the same when I first saw it. However it's a bit like watching the A-Team or Knight Rider. It's good from a nostalgia point of view but it's never as good as it used to be!

[blue_haddock]

These were a staple for our family back in the day when we went on holiday, dad would buy them and we'd read them in the caravan when it invariably pee'd it down and we were stuck inside!

[Flip Martian]

I must admit when I had a Readly sub I would read a story a night before sleep. "Achtung! Spitfeuren! "Hande hoch, Englisher pig!" etc. Wonderful stuff.

They did seem to repeat them eventually - notes in the (modern day or more recent ) mag saying "first appeared in Jan 1967" or whatever.

[Lefty]

I liked Commando but always preferred the Victor/Warlord annuals, I still have loads of mine which my son read to death when he was young and thankfully looked after them.

[renmure]

I used to regularly read them as a kid. The old adage about never judging a book by its cover couldn’t have been less appropriate as it was always the cover that dictated whether I wanted it or not.

[Furbo]

gareth h said:

This is starting to become a dirty secret, I loved the war comics as a kid, I ve just discovered Commando on my readly app, and well can t stop reading them, anybody else addicted?

Yes, I used to love all of that stuff too. I am not sure how my father felt, given that he was actually in the second world war.

[Lefty]

renmure said:

I used to regularly read them as a kid. The old adage about never judging a book by its cover couldn t have been less appropriate as it was always the cover that dictated whether I wanted it or not.

Yes, 100%

[Flip Martian]

renmure said:

I used to regularly read them as a kid. The old adage about never judging a book by its cover couldn t have been less appropriate as it was always the cover that dictated whether I wanted it or not.

Same. The cover art was always done by someone rather better than the one who drew the actual story! But the "golden age" 60s and early 7u0s ones seemed to be drawn very well. Reading so many of them on Readly, I soon noticed that some of the "much later" comics were drawn so poorly, many characters looked very similar to each other, even on the same page.

[Countdown]

Warlord was much better.

[marcosgt]

coppice said:

I... and the enemy only said stuff like 'Achtung Englander' or (In the case of bespectacled Nips ) 'NNNNGGGG I die !!'

No cliche unspared , no national stereotype ignored. I bet Lee Anderson still reads them

Now, now, we all know the Germans almost always said "Donner Und Blitzen" and "Achtung Spitfeur!", whilst the Japanese frequently yelled "Aiiieeeee!" - Yes, I used to love these as a kid, I've got a hardback compilation somewhere, which bought in a nostalgic moment, but never read (likewise the complete Warlord comics, which were very similar in tone, in an e-book form - I won a 1/24 Airfix Spitfire from them once!).

A friend of mine used to butcher Commando comics to make up hilarious stories featuring our colleagues at work - I wish I still had those, especially the first one, inspired by the discovery that our boss was once in a band called "The Tank Commanders"!

M

Edited by marcosgt on Tuesday 24th February 09:40