![]() ![]() ![]() The easy choice to portray a hero in the context of the war is by making them British or American to show how democracy and freedom are the primary driving forces of “good”. The first thing that elevates this graphic novel from the traditional World War II story is the writer’s choice to focus on the Soviets, rather than the Western Allies. This status of being the best places Sara in the crosshairs of an enemy German sniper who puts the Soviets to a standstill, and the rest of the book is Sara’s attempts to kill the enemy before he can kill her. The titular protagonist of the comic, Sara, is by far the best sniper in the regiment, but also the most reserved. Sara follows a group of eight female soviet snipers caught in a dangerous game of cat and mouse with a German assassin during the wintery Siege of Leningrad. The series is written by Garth Ennis, with art by Steve Epting and is rounded out by colorist Elizabeth Breitweiser and letterer Rob Steen. Sara, a graphic novel from the first wave of comics from TKO Presents, bucks against the notion of a morally simple war story. On the other hand, the Vietnam War is shaded in tones of gray, caught in a more morally complex situation. The Allies are good, the Axis are bad and sometimes there’s some complexity to the action of soldiers. In both fiction and literature, World War II narratives are generally clear-cut. ![]()
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