Johnny Red: The Flying Gun

Johnny Red #5

by Tom Tully, John Cooper

"From the pages of classic war comic Battle comes the finest air-combat strip ever created in Britain! Johnny Redburn has just led Falcon Squadron on a successful mission over Stalingrad. But Major Rastovitch has a new mission for to fly an important Russian official to a top-secret conference in England in the incredible ""Flying Gun"". The stakes are high and danger never far away ..."

Genres: Graphic Novels

141 pages, Kindle Edition

First published August 10, 2016

Reviews

[John Davies · Rating 5 out of 5]

This is the 4th Johnny Red volume, and it's got the B-25 Mitchell with the twelve .50cal machine guns in the nose, and the other machine guns everywhere else. Johnny, Yakob and Vorishkin must fly a V.I.P. to England, with the entire Luftwaffe trying to shoot them down.

Johnny then has to deal with his desertion problems, before he gets to fly back to Russia, and try and teach a load of young pilots, barely teenagers how to survive in the skies.

It's a great book, and it's still not the entire story of Johnny Red, but until they release a new volume, it'll have to do.

[James Kinsley · Rating 3 out of 5]

Still a lot to love but, as Ennis points out in his introduction, the plots are getting more fantastical. Misses some of the edge of the earlier strip. And how does Johnny not recognise Nina's voice, the only Russian woman he knows?