Charley's War

[catsmate]

I'm currently re-reading (for the first time in decades) the reprint version of the old British comic 'Charley's War' the story of a man (boy really) who enlists underage in 1916 just in time for the Somme.
I followed the original thirty odd years ago as a kid, and it's fascinating how parts of it come back to me.
BTW I'd recommend it to anyone; good artwork, excellent characterisation and high level of accuracy and attention to detail. It doesn't shy away at all from the brutality of war, and that war in particular.
I'm just up to part dealing with the Etaples Mutiny, an event that seems rather under-represented in general histories of the war.

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Anyone else read this or remember it from the eighties?

 

[Rat]

I certainly do. It was in Battle comic, which I got for a few years, and it's one of the strips that I remember the best (i.e. both that I remember it well and I remember it being good). I went looking a couple of years ago to see if there was anywhere I could get it to find out whether it was as good as I remembered, but there was nothing other than torrents, none of which were well packaged or described.

 

[catsmate]

I certainly do. It was in Battle comic, which I got for a few years, and it's one of the strips that I remember the best (i.e. both that I remember it well and I remember it being good). I went looking a couple of years ago to see if there was anywhere I could get it to find out whether it was as good as I remembered, but there was nothing other than torrents, none of which were well packaged or described.

You can order the hardcover collections though I don't think there's a legit ebook version yet. There are unofficial scans floating around the net of course.