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Enemy Ace: War in Heaven 1, page 8, May 2001 by Christian Alamy and Chris Weston

Artists: Christian Alamy (Penciller) , Chris Weston (Penciller) , Chris Weston (Inker)

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Enemy Ace: War in Heaven 1, page 8, May 2001 by Christian Alamy and Chris Weston Comic Art

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Title:	Enemy Ace: War in Heaven 1, page 8, May 2001 by Christian Alamy and Chris Weston
Artist:	Christian Alamy (Penciller)
Artist:	Chris Weston (Penciller)
Artist:	Chris Weston (Inker)
Media Type:	Pen and Ink
Art Type:	Interior Page
For Sale Status:	NFS
Views:	125
Likes on CAF:	6 7
Comments:	6
Added to Site:	4/29/2024
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I was concerned when this page arrived that it was not the original art but a copy taped to DC stock. Other pages on CAF from this story also looked like mine.

Fortunately, I was able to contact the artists who confirmed that the art was authentic. They kindly described how the pages came into existence.

Christian Alamy did the initial pencils. Chris Weston finished or refined and inked the pencils using a light box. He then taped the inked pages to DC stock for lettering and editing. This process was used for the first half of the story. Russ Heath, a veteran of the heyday of DC war comics, drew the second half.

The writer, Garth Ennis, grew up reading British war comics and has a keen interest in telling sequential art stories about World War II. His numerous works include Battlefields, Battler Briton, Dreaming Eagles, Johnny Red, Out of the Blue, Sara, The Lion and the Eagle, The String Bags, and War Stories.

He might well have recalled the Soviet apparatchiks in British pilot Johnny Red stories in choosing, to quote Enemy Ace�s compatriot, a �sniveling little Nazi bootlicker� as the protagonist.

I wonder where Ennis would have taken the story if von Hammer�s contempt for Hitler and the Nazi Party drove him into the plot to assassinate Hitler. Perhaps that is a story that fits between the first and second volumes of this comic.

Story summary from the DC Database website:

"In Bavaria, 1942, Hauptmann Peter Stalschmidt arrives at Castle von Hammer and tries to convince its owner and his compatriot, Hans von Hammer to join him as a pilot, flying against Russia as Germany is starting to take serious losses. Reluctantly, Von Hammer agrees even though he has no sympathies for the Nazis.

On his first day as flight leader, Von Hammer buzzes the gathered pilots in his bright red plane. An hour later he takes the first flight up. They encounter a group of MiG-3s and run them off, destroying twelve in the process."

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Marcus Wai
Member Since 2005

2 - Posted on 4/29/2024

Ennis, Alamy, and Weston came up with some of the finest modern war comics in a long time when the genre was all but gone from modern comic stands. The gritty realism was there and they almost look like images pulled from b&w photos. Ennis was probably the driving force with the most clout coming from Preacher just a year before.

Lee Harmon
Member Since 2020

1 - Posted on 4/29/2024

This does have a very classic look for a book produced in 2001. The flow of the first three panels in particular is superb!

Congrats on the addition my friend and thanks for sharing this with us.

Peter Roe
Member Since 2009

Posted on 4/29/2024

Lee Harmon wrote:

This does have a very classic look for a book produced in 2001. The flow of the first three panels in particular is superb!

Congrats on the addition my friend and thanks for sharing this with us.

Hi Lee, thank you for the kind comments.

Miki Annamanthadoo
Member Since 2003

1 - Posted on 4/29/2024

Great layouts and detailed inks portraying realistic images of the airfield. Congrats!

Jeffrey Wedding
Member Since 2009

1 - Posted on 5/3/2024

That third panel of the ME-109 is the money shot, and worth the price of admission. This is one of the Ennis war series I haven't ready yet, and now I'll need to.

Peter Roe
Member Since 2009

1 - Posted on 5/3/2024

Jeffrey Wedding wrote:

That third panel of the ME-109 is the money shot, and worth the price of admission. This is one of the Ennis war series I haven't ready yet, and now I'll need to.

Thanks Jeff. It is worth reading. I don't know if you've seen Ennis's recent revival of Battle Action comics, most of which are collected in two TPBs. They're pretty good.

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