Hexagon Comics: The Partisans -North Africa / Pacific Theaters

 

- THE PARTISANS - NORTH AFRICA - starring Baroud, the Senegalese Guardian, Antales the amazon, Tanka, Imhotep & Wazilla

- THE PARTISANS - PACIFIC THEATER - starring Dan Diamond, Apollo, Red Feather, Corsak, Xiu Kappa & Ricky Rox

7x10 squarebound comic,

 64 pages 

b&w
ISBN-13: 978-1-64932-016-2. 

US$12.95.

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1942. North Africa. Under the direction of Erwin Rommel, the Nazis prepare to seize the mysterious city of Heliopolis, once the home of the mythical Egyptian gods and the depository of all their secrets. This will insure Germany’s victory and her domination of the world.
 
But in order to stop him, French General Leclerc has gathered a team of PARTISANS, comprised of Baroud, the Guardian of the Republic of Senegal, the amazon Antales, young Tanka, the legendary Imhotep, and the powerful Wazilla.
 
1945. Pacific Theater. The Americans’ plan to seize Okinawa is compromised by the sudden arrival of a powerful alien, Lord Manduk of Vaur, who teams up with the formidable Japanese scientist known as Madame Y.
 
President Roosevelt asks Dan Diamond of the O.S.S. to assemble another team of PARTISANS. These are Borneo jungle lord Corsak, Tibetan martial artist Xiu Kappa, sun-powered Apollo from the Midwest, the mystic Cheyenne warrior Red Feather, and super-fast Ricky Rox.
 
This book presents two World War II sagas about crucial events that, if allowed to unfold, might well have changed the course of history, without the intervention of the heroic champions known as… THE PARTISANS!

We've seen Marvel use heroes in the excellent 1970s series The Invaders and in the 1980s DC Comics produced The All Star Squadron -both excellent series created by Roy Thomas. So it is interesting to see how Lofficier tackles the idea of super powered folk fighting in a theatre of war -World War 2 of course.

As always an interesting story and characters and there are no complaints there. What surprised me was that Guevara employed two different art techniques to define each story and, literally, define one as North Africa and one as the Pacific.  For North africa he relied on a lot of grey tone as well as black and white and it worked really effectively. For the Pacific he relied on clean black and white art which, again, worked effectively.

Now might be the time to get out that copy of Hexagons Top 100 Characters!

This is a good solid read and well worth trying.