Sgt. Rock - The Lost Battalion Day 2 Cover

Day Two – Rain.

This cover, on 11X 17 DC art board, like all in the series is devoted to the ordinary dogface of WW2. Worn-out men in their twenties and thirties, plucked from a peaceful existence and sent to the other side of the world to kill. Men, prematurely aged beyond their years by the horrors of war -- but whose spirits, though battered are never bested and have become that of iron. They know they have a job to do, but hate it. Here, Rock, serving in 1st Battalion 141st Infantry Regiment of the 36th “Texas” Division. Having seen so much brutality, this man knows the single rain droplet pelting his helmet is the harbinger of a coming storm. Not only anxious of being able to survive yet “another one”, he also has the burden of those men who are counting on him to keep them alive. The significance of one tiny raindrop is as powerful as having the entire world on one’s shoulders – especially when you’re surrounded on all sides by 7,000 crack troops and armor of the Wehrmacht.

Issue on Sale December 2008