And yes, I know WW2 wasn’t pretty, but that doesn’t mean I need to see half of the crap in this comic, especially as it doesn’t add anything to the wafer-thin story. It’s page after page of Nazi superheroes killing people in visceral detail and it’s completely miserable to read. That’s all there is for vast chunks of the book: tons and tons of gratuitous violence.Īnd we see it in such bloody detail – women getting raped, men literally having their bodies ripped in half, others being strangled with intestines, on and on. It’s not entirely the fact that watching the Nazis win is horrible to read, so much as the total absence of any story to hold the attention while Nazi supermen rip apart Allied soldiers. I tried reading this book but after stopping and starting a half dozen times, I just put it down for good and immediately felt better. Plus, this being an Avatar book, it’s also hyper-violent and grisly. Uber asks: what if at the end of WW2, Hitler’s mad plans to create an ubermensch – overman, superman – came to fruition just as Berlin was about to fall? With the emergence of Nazi supermen, the war is turned around with the Nazis pushing back the Allies, putting Hitler back on top. Not the art – Canaan White does a fantastic job with that – but the “story” itself.
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