tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8026774725178592968.post6434026162306354589..comments2023-08-02T02:23:35.019-04:00Comments on I Love Rob Liefeld | A Comic Book Blog: Review: It Was the War of the TrenchesSandyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09672666055136757425noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8026774725178592968.post-84220654275021169602010-06-22T15:39:25.570-04:002010-06-22T15:39:25.570-04:00Yeah, Tardi has been obsessed/interested in World ...Yeah, Tardi has been obsessed/interested in World War I for a long time; echoes of it are in Adele Blanc-Sec as well and earlier works like <i>La véritable histoire du soldat inconnu</i> and <i>Adieu Brindavoine/La fleur au fusil</i>. France is of course much aware of WWI than America is, or even the UK, alive in the way WWII is elsewhere, especially when there were still quite a few veterans about back when Tardi first started drawing comics. Almost everybody would have a granddad or granduncle or more in their family who fought in the trenches and perhaps another granduncle no longer there because they died in the trenches...<br /><br />On a more political level WWI also fits in with the cynical, leftist view of the world that his generation of French cartoonists have: life's absurd and controlled by forces beyond your reach and then they make you fight in the trenches.Martin Wissehttp://cloggie.org/wissewords2/noreply@blogger.com