Geek Syndicate Issue 5 | Page 39

Geek Syndicate
Conclusion
Looking back it’s odd to think that such a dominant genre could vanish nearly without a trace, a victim of changing reading habits, and it’s own stagnation. It is not so much that War Stories themselves have gone - fashions change, after all - but they seem to have taken with them a mass comics industry in the UK that hangs on only in places. Too often we think of comics as an American form and look at the current vibrant UK indie scene as something creatively exciting (which it is) but rarely do we question why home grown comics aren’t commercially bigger. Well once they were; giant lumbering dinosaurs of steel, petrol and cordite, and like the dinosaurs, they are all now extinct.
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Matt Farr
Commando Comics can still be purchased in collected editions in book stores and also online at http://www. commandocomics.com/. The site is nicely divided into different eras and the comics can also be searched by the nationality of the protagonists or by the type of service featured in the service. For anyone interested in comics, war or the combination there-of, it is highly recommended that Commando be looked into.

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