The local store got shorted on their Marvel stuff for the week, but hopefully I'll have the second issue of Damage Control and the other 2 books from this month by the weekend. In the meanwhile, here's the first issue of a new mini-series!
This issue is basically all set-up. Establish Hitler has a program for reanimating corpses and sending them into combat, and that he wants more of them. Establish the Allies are aware of this, and that Rock and his guys are assigned the mission of finding a way to shut it down. Establish what the Allies know about how the corpses are reanimated (regenerating drugs, and a doodad at the base of the skull, that artificially stimulates the brain), who to look for, and where to look.
Spend three pages on the nifty things they're outfitting Rock's guys with. Keep in mind, "nifty things" in this case involve walkie-talkies, night-vision goggles, and a thermal visor thing. We'll see how useful any of it proves to be. For example, do undead Nazis have a thermal signature? Even though one of the last bits is Rock and his guys getting an up close encounter with a captured undead, they didn't exactly try out any of that stuff. But it does establish how difficult this might be if they try to fight they way they do against living soldiers.
One can hope Campbell is getting the exposition of the way now, so next issue he can jump right into the action. He introduced a few of the other soldiers, to the extent of giving them names, but not much in the way of personalities yet.
Russo's version of Rock is hard for me to get used to. He's scruffy looking to be sure, but the haircut is odd (shaved on the sides but like a scraggly mop on top). Plus, he smokes a cigar. Does Russo think he's drawing Sgt. Fury and his Howling Commandos? Russo's also fond of shadowing soldiers' eyes with the rim of their helmets. Usually its just dark underneath, but in a few panels, one soldier's eyes are visible as tiny white circles with a dot in them. Not sure why, since he went the other way with Rock's face in the same panel. It could be for an expression of terror, which would fit some of the uses, but not that particular one.
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