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Fiends of the Eastern Front
Fiends Of The Eastern Front
Talks about a unit of Rumanian soldiers, experts in night-fighting. This work is the diary of Hans Schmitt - a German soldier who was posted to the Eastern Front. Schmitt details the true nature of his 'comrades' - blood-sucking vampires! When the Rumanians change sides, Schmitt realises that his own unit have become the targets of these fiends!
96 pages, Paperback
First published June 6, 2006
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May 28, 2019
This is good. Ezquerra art with very grim and violent Finley-Day art. It just is just perfect horror fun.
January 16, 2013
WW2 German infantryman discovers Romanian allies are vampires. Oh no!
Nice, icy horror from Gerry Finley-Day with thrill-powered art by good old Carlos Ezquerra. I enjoyed this now, as an adult, and I can only imagine how this would have seemed, had I read it as a child. It's pretty bleak, so it is.
Concise, atmospheric, full of action and cliffhangers, and better than the whole '30 Days of Night' thing (which I realise is damning it with faint praise).
It's just a shame this volume also includes two modern stories, by Dan Abnett and David Bishop, which are decent enough but utterly disposable, not as good as the original, and kind of dilute its appeal a bit. Guess they needed to pad out the trade paperback, though? It is good value if you like those stories, that's true. Hmmmn.
Oh, is that Durham Red that appears in the Abnett story, or just some other anachronistically-dressed, out-of-place bit of pointless, patronising 'eye candy'?
I hate comics.
The original story is fucking ACE, though.
Nice, icy horror from Gerry Finley-Day with thrill-powered art by good old Carlos Ezquerra. I enjoyed this now, as an adult, and I can only imagine how this would have seemed, had I read it as a child. It's pretty bleak, so it is.
Concise, atmospheric, full of action and cliffhangers, and better than the whole '30 Days of Night' thing (which I realise is damning it with faint praise).
It's just a shame this volume also includes two modern stories, by Dan Abnett and David Bishop, which are decent enough but utterly disposable, not as good as the original, and kind of dilute its appeal a bit. Guess they needed to pad out the trade paperback, though? It is good value if you like those stories, that's true. Hmmmn.
Oh, is that Durham Red that appears in the Abnett story, or just some other anachronistically-dressed, out-of-place bit of pointless, patronising 'eye candy'?
I hate comics.
The original story is fucking ACE, though.
March 3, 2022
Great idea, great art, really sloppy narrative execution.
August 28, 2018
One of the best and earliest ventures into horror by 2000AD. Vertigo missed a trick by not giving Gerry Finlay-Day his own series. This is adult horror at it's most intense. The lone private fighting against vampires with the end of WW2 happening all around them. Twists and turns abound.
Read this. Read it now.
Read this. Read it now.
July 29, 2015
War x hammer horror. Beautiful bleak art but too brief to do anything but glide over the concept.
June 30, 2019
Vamped up
I love vampires and this is aggression of vampires and the second world war. Beautiful artwork and interesting story lovedit
I love vampires and this is aggression of vampires and the second world war. Beautiful artwork and interesting story lovedit
December 6, 2020
I bought this book as I remember reading it in the 2000 AD comics in my youth, but I couldn't remember how the story ended.
I still found it very enjoyable, and it was easy to read in one sitting.
A very gripping tale with vampires and soldiers. I would class it as a mild horror, by today's standards, so would be suitable for most children of 12 years and older.
I still found it very enjoyable, and it was easy to read in one sitting.
A very gripping tale with vampires and soldiers. I would class it as a mild horror, by today's standards, so would be suitable for most children of 12 years and older.
February 20, 2024
Not the kind of story that I’m normally interested in, but it works here, as a German Wehrmacht soldier slowly realizes that some of his Romanian Allies are Vampires…
Art is decent and it’s an interesting story well told
Art is decent and it’s an interesting story well told
December 31, 2019
Fantastic wartime horror as only the greats of 2000AD can bring.
March 27, 2022
A schlocky horror gem from the pages of 2000AD comic. Lovely artwork by Carlos Ezquerra and later Colin McNeil in this tale of WW2 vampires.
April 7, 2022
A pretty good example of what it does. Not entirely to my tastes but enjoyable enough.
October 2, 2022
A mixed bag collection of WWII vampires, classic 80s on one hand, modern on the other, all good fun. Art by Carlos Ezquerra and Colin MacNeil, all excellent.
June 13, 2019
It's a comic retelling an unholy alliance between the most heinous monsters imaginable, unrepentant murderers, bloodthirsty fiends with an uncountable number of deaths in their hands... and a bunch of vampires.
Ah, I'm kidding. Hans is about as good of a person as you can be in his time and place: he fights for his country, does what he can to stay alive in some of the worst hellscapes in human history, and probably would not approve of what his motherland's been doing if he knew about it. He's got his hands full as it is, and the story he leaves behind is a good one - tense, full of suspense, with a monstrous yet strangely charismatic villain. Carlos Ezquerra's art, always a delight to see, helped to get the right impression through. I felt genuine chill at times.
2000AD has a lot more going for it than just Judge Dredd - it's stories like this what makes it probably my favourite comic publication of our time. Highly recommended.
Ah, I'm kidding. Hans is about as good of a person as you can be in his time and place: he fights for his country, does what he can to stay alive in some of the worst hellscapes in human history, and probably would not approve of what his motherland's been doing if he knew about it. He's got his hands full as it is, and the story he leaves behind is a good one - tense, full of suspense, with a monstrous yet strangely charismatic villain. Carlos Ezquerra's art, always a delight to see, helped to get the right impression through. I felt genuine chill at times.
2000AD has a lot more going for it than just Judge Dredd - it's stories like this what makes it probably my favourite comic publication of our time. Highly recommended.
December 24, 2013
This was a strange story to find in 2000AD which dealt with sci-fi or time travel stories, not WWII ones which tended to appear in Battle Action. I don't particular enjoy reading war comics but I enjoyed this vampire crossover. It has all the vampire cliches - silver bullets, garlic, crucifixes and stakes stabbed into the heart. What is unusual is that the hero of the story is a German soldier rather than an Allied one.
It's one of the 2000AD stories that lodged permanently in my memory when so many have faded away. Re-reading it 33 years later was a pleasurable refreshing of a childhood memory. Even though I always knew how it was going to end, I got caught up in the story all over again. A sign of a good yarn. I can recommend it if you're looking for a change from sci-fi or superheroes.
It's one of the 2000AD stories that lodged permanently in my memory when so many have faded away. Re-reading it 33 years later was a pleasurable refreshing of a childhood memory. Even though I always knew how it was going to end, I got caught up in the story all over again. A sign of a good yarn. I can recommend it if you're looking for a change from sci-fi or superheroes.
February 23, 2017
Saksalainen sotamies törmää operaatio Barbarossan alkaessa kummalliseen romanialaiseen joukko-osastoon, joiden tehokkaat mutta epätavalliset keinot tehdä selvää venäläisistä jäävät vaivaamaan mosurimme mieltä. Käy ilmi, että kapteeni Constantan johtamat sotilaat eivät olekaan tavallisia sotilaita... vaan vampyyreja.
Gerry Finley-Dayn käsikirjoittama ja Carlos Ezquerran kuvittama "Fiends of the Eastern Front" (Rebellion, 2007) julkaistiin alun perin brittiläisen 2000 AD -lehden numeroissa 152-161 vuonna 1980. Sarjakuvassa olisi perusideansa puolesta ollut aineksia vaikka mihin, mutta eipä lopputulos jää mieleen erityisen ihmeellisenä kauhutarinana.
Gerry Finley-Dayn käsikirjoittama ja Carlos Ezquerran kuvittama "Fiends of the Eastern Front" (Rebellion, 2007) julkaistiin alun perin brittiläisen 2000 AD -lehden numeroissa 152-161 vuonna 1980. Sarjakuvassa olisi perusideansa puolesta ollut aineksia vaikka mihin, mutta eipä lopputulos jää mieleen erityisen ihmeellisenä kauhutarinana.
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