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Commando #5255
Commando #5255: Codename Warlord
The Coward. The Lord. The British Agent. In comic pages for the first time since 1991, Flint is back... and someone needs his help. Professor Von Bessner has defected, but he has been imprisoned by the Nazis he refuses to serve. It's Flint's job to get him out!
67 pages, Kindle Edition
Published August 22, 2019
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January 6, 2020
Lord Peter Flint, the British agent best known as Warlord, appears here in comics pages for the first time since 1991. Professor Von Bessner has defected but been imprisoned by the Nazis he refuses to serve and it’s Flint’s job to get him out!
In the 70s, my favourite comic “Bullet” had a good run until it was absorbed - as so often happened - into another, in this case “Warlord” (Flint was Fireball’s guardian). I read “Warlord” for a while but it wasn’t really my thing and moved on to 2000AD, so it’s probably 40+ years since I’ve read any of Flint’s adventures. When I found out two stories were being published as part of the ongoing Commando series (another comic run I used to read as a kid), I picked the first one up. Told over 63 pages in black & white artwork, it’s a simple enough story but gives plenty of opportunity for Flint to shine as both a secret agent and a wit (something I thoroughly enjoyed in the comic) and it was lovely to see the Warlord logo again. The story has a good pace, lots of action and a decent twist and it appealed to the nostalgic in me, so I thought it worked. If you read the comic, or remember the war comics of the 70s and early 80s (an ad at the back, talking of reprints, mentions the fact “some pages may contain references which are of their time, but would not be considered suitable today”), this has the same kind of violence, thud and blunder and I’d recommend it.
In the 70s, my favourite comic “Bullet” had a good run until it was absorbed - as so often happened - into another, in this case “Warlord” (Flint was Fireball’s guardian). I read “Warlord” for a while but it wasn’t really my thing and moved on to 2000AD, so it’s probably 40+ years since I’ve read any of Flint’s adventures. When I found out two stories were being published as part of the ongoing Commando series (another comic run I used to read as a kid), I picked the first one up. Told over 63 pages in black & white artwork, it’s a simple enough story but gives plenty of opportunity for Flint to shine as both a secret agent and a wit (something I thoroughly enjoyed in the comic) and it was lovely to see the Warlord logo again. The story has a good pace, lots of action and a decent twist and it appealed to the nostalgic in me, so I thought it worked. If you read the comic, or remember the war comics of the 70s and early 80s (an ad at the back, talking of reprints, mentions the fact “some pages may contain references which are of their time, but would not be considered suitable today”), this has the same kind of violence, thud and blunder and I’d recommend it.
January 7, 2020
Just love Warlord, best story for me... had everything I wanted in the story
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