Mark Russell and PJ Holden have teamed up on Dog Tag, a six-issue World War II series with colors by JP Jordan and lettering by Buddy Beaudoin, which will launch in May from Mad Cave Studios.
Inspired by real events from the final year of the war, the series follows Corporal Tom Fuller, a soldier/journalist whose account draws on little-known true stories from the conflict.
“Dog Tag is the kind of World War II story I’d always hoped to write,” he said. “An homage to a grandfather I never knew but who served in the war, a reminder of the consequences of giving a nation over to belligerence and cruelty, and also the re-telling of true but little-known chapters of the war through the eyes of a writer who is worried that no one will believe him when he tells them what the war is really like.”
Mad Cave shared more on the miniseries:
Dog Tag is a fictional story about a very real war. It follows the life and thoughts of Corporal Tom Fuller through the final year of World War II as his service takes him from the invasion of Normandy to the surrender of Japan. Borrowed from real-world stories and little-known events of the war, Dog Tag asks big questions about the war while focusing on the heroism of the ordinary people who lived and died during the conflict.
“Growing up in the 70s/80s, I was exposed to WWII through a steady stream of War movies, great rollicking adventures, heroic missions and manly sacrifice,” Holden said. “Of course, real war is often nothing like that. Real war is often sacrifices made by scared, tired boys who are barely old enough to be classified as men. I hope from reading this book we can get a sense of the sacrifice required for even a ‘good’ war.”
Holden drew the main cover, while variant covers for the first issue are by Sebastián Piriz and Erica Henderson:
The series kicks off May 6.