Commando #5139: The Forlorn Hope

Commando #5139

by Andrew Knighton, Manuel Benet (Artist)

The men of the 45th Regiment of Foot gripped their Brown Bess muskets with sweaty hands, ready to storm the breaches at Badajoz. The 45th were the soldiers chosen to be the first part of the attack. Their fight would be the hardest with the most casualties. For this, they called them... THE FORLORN HOPE!

66 pages, Kindle Edition

Published July 12, 2018

About the author

Andrew Knighton is a British author, comics scribe, and freelance writer. His works include steampunk adventure story The Epiphany Club and alternate history thriller The Bear’s Claws. He lives in Yorkshire with a savage black cat and a huge heap of unread books.

Reviews

[S. Scott · Rating 4 out of 5]

Ah, Commando. This little comic has been around longer than I have, and alongside 2000AD, Eagle, and Starlord was a staple of my childhood. This entry in the collection tells the story of Tom Hopper and Sam Jones, and the soldiers of the 45th Nottinghamshire Regiment during the Peninsula War.

Penned by Andrew Knighton and drawn by Manuel Benet, this one clearly draws a lot of inspiration from Cornwell's Sharpe series, and the comic format works well from a storytelling point of view.

I enjoyed dipping back into my childhood with this one, and shall certainly be on the lookout for more.