It’s the closing stages of the war in Europe and Hitler’s running out of soldiers. The solution? Reanimating dead soldiers to fight once more - but not if Sgt. Rock and Easy Company has anything to say about it!
Bruce “The Chin” Campbell is the latest Hollywood actor to make a foray into comics with a WW2 horror comic along the lines of his most famous movies, Evil Dead and Army of Darkness: Sgt. Rock vs The Army of the Dead.
Who doesn’t like Bruce Campbell? The guy’s a living legend - and that chin? Phwoar. Still, even though I wanted to, I didn’t love his comic. It’s just generic US GI characters effortlessly gunning down Nazi zombies one issue after another without much variation or tension as to the outcome - it’s very one-note throughout.
Joining Campbell is Eduardo Risso, whose art is excellent and suitably gory. The covers are fantastic too. In the same way that he drew Superman as Christopher Reeve, Gary Frank draws Sgt. Rock to look like a young Bruce Campbell, which is great, and Francesco Francavilla’s covers are having fun riffing on horror b-movies.
The comic delivers on the title - it really is just Sgt. Rock (and Easy Company) vs an army of the dead - but that alone wasn’t enough for me. The endless action got mundane and drearily repetitive very quickly, and ultimately doesn’t make for much of an interesting read - Sgt. Rock vs The Army of the Dead didn’t rock my world.
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