RED SKULL #5 (OF 5)
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Art by Mirko Colak
Cover by David Aja
Size: 0 pages
Price: 2.99
This review contains spoilers, click here to read
Greg Pak's latest historical effort isn't simply an origin of the Red Skull. His previous WWII origin story, "Magneto: Testament" used the character's name and origin to tell a moving, and very historically accurate, Holocaust story. Now he's writing a wonderful (albeit depressing) story of one boy's struggles in Germany at the end of the Weimar Republic. Could the young man have avoided becoming the Red Skull if he had been raised in a different time and place? Pak doesn't spend too much time on this question, he tells a tale of that time and place and he does it well. The series contains many events that actually happened, although some are simplified for the purposes of the narrative (Ernst Roehm's death and the Night of Long Knives, for instance), and leaves the reader with quite an impression of what life was like for someone growing up there.
I'm not especially familiar with the Mirko Colak's work, but the art on this series was very effective and evocative and, as I've said in previous reviews, every single cover has to be a candidate for cover of the year. If you enjoy history this book is definitely worth picking up in trade. There are no superheroics and the main character isn't one that the reader likes (since we're dealing with the Red Skull, we know there won't be a turn away from evil) but it is a well-researched piece of historical fiction.
Story: 5 - Excellent
Art: 5 - Excellent
Art: 5 - Excellent
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