Crisp White and Waiting

This is how life should be! Plenty of opportunities to laze around in crisp whites waiting for the officer's mess to open, where the other chaps are waiting to have ding doing time. Surely there could be no better place? All that fun below decks and above and on base a fellow has to relax.

 

Yet this is early on. Time and events will no doubt move fast. Faster than you might expect.

 

So keep the back straight, shave the chin and comb that hair. There's much ado with your Atlantic cousins.

Fear Not...

Normal transmission will be resuming soon. So remember don't fly straight for too long. Keep an eye out and beware the Hun in the sun. Keep a stiff upper lip and hold on until help arrives.

Cover of the Week War Picture Library 131 Line of Fire

Sometimes the situation is bad. Real bad. The captain is dead. The support weapons are no longer manned. There's no other option but to wave the men on. Despite the shell fire and the enemy intent on plowing the fields with machine gun fire. At some point someone has to yell 'enough'.  The cover of War Picture Library 131 Line of File sadly lives up to any number of stereotypes of what  pocket war comic should be, without the drama or excitement that other  editions have created. I am not one who should question anybody else's artistic ability  - but the composition of Line of Fire is not the best. Having said that this cover is 10 million times better (and then some more) than I could ever create. 
The long grass is good. The dead officer is good. The abandoned mortar is good. The fingers into the heading are good. The perfect bullet stitching,  not so much. The Sten gun smoke under the bullet stitching, not so good. The red sky, the purple tones... I really want to like it, but I just can't. 7/10