UNKNOWN SOLDIER #20
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Art by ALBERTO PONTICELLI
Cover by DAVE JOHNSON
Size: 32 pages
Price: 2.99
This review contains spoilers, click here to read
So we come to the end of "A Battle of Little Note" and we're just 5 more issues from the end. The final pages of the story marks a sharp turn in the overall story and I get the sense that Moses' story is barrelling towards it's inexorable conclusion. Dysart knows the end is coming and I'm hopeful from this issue that it will all finish in a satisfying way.
This issue itself is more of the expected excellence, like nothing else that's available on the stands. Moses finds himself on the run and meets with a small family trying to survive with a handful of cattle on a hillside. Moses brings his pursuers to their "door" but they help him to defend their home. They are from the Karamojong, a people made up basically of survivors, and they treat this incident as just another of life's trials to overcome. It is, as always, kind of a grim story and is never an easy read. What I find interesting is that it always strikes you as an important read, but always manages to avoid that "worthy", cliched feeling you get from other efforts to tell this kind of story. Plenty of writers can create very deliberate, manufactured moments designed to pull on the heartstrings, but Dysart produces something gutwrenching and natural. His language is lyrical and seems to replicate the genuine voices of these various tribes of Africa, they linger in the mind long after the read is done.
Alberto Ponticelli is an amazing artist, perfect at creating the sights of the real African world. He's as at home drawing the barren plains of Uganda as he is helicopters and soldiers. It's rich in detail and his characters act and react as people really do. A special note should also be made of Oscar Celestini's restrained, parched colour palette too as it's the perfect accompaniment to Ponticelli.
25 issues is as far as this series is going to go, and we know that Uganda has stories enough to fill another 75 and beyond. Still, it's a good run for something so challenging and I think it's a genuine masterpiece which will stand the test of time.
Art: 5 - Excellent
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