I don't know what brought this mini-series about, but it's Sgt. Rock and Easy Company trying to stop a last-ditch plan by the Nazis to augment their forces by bringing their soldiers back from the dead, with enhanced strength and aggression.
The mini-series is essentially one long mission, except Campbell keeps having Easy Company locate some critical objective, only to withdraw and do further planning with the rear command. That's already where they spend most of the first issue, being alerted to the problem they're facing and given general directives on what to do, so it seems like a bad idea to keep stopping when they have some momentum. Especially as the chief scientist (and Hitler's personal physician) is aware he's being followed by issue 4.
Campbell writes in a lot of tough guy one-liners - one soldier with a flamethrower watches a pair of burning zombies stagger from a pillbox and asks, 'Is it just me, or is it hot outside?' - and despite all the planning sessions, keeps the action moving. As Rock and Co. chase the scientist all through issue 4, they have to take over a guard post, destroy the previously mentioned pillbox, crash another barricade and wipe out a couple of motorcycle-riding zombie Nazis. The last two issues are a big hand-to-hand fight with a Hitler pumped up on the revitalization drugs while bombers try to level the place.
Risso's Sgt. Rock, who a thick mop of hair on top and shaved close on the sides, and smoking cigars, more closely resembles Sgt. Fury to me, but he captures the horror aspects of the story. The leathery skin of the revived soldiers, that has drawn back to leave their teeth exposed in this massive grins. The casual indifference to being shot. Campbell and Risso get some dark humor from that in a scene where the revived soldiers are in a pub and one shoots the other, causing his beer to fountain out his stomach, while they all laugh about. But prior to that, Rock had shot one two or three times without it even pausing from strangling Rock's C.O.
The pages tend to be drenched in shadows, but that allows the occasional use of brighter colors by Rossi to have greater effect. The orange as gasoline ignites, or the bit of light in the trail of a bazooka shell as we watch its path reflected in a soldier's goggles. Risso and Rossi make a good team.
Campbell also makes the decision to start giving Rock caption boxes, but not until issue 5. It isn't a case where he's writing from other characters' perspective prior to that; Rock is the main character throughout. So I'm not sure why he waited until that point, but the narration does more closely resemble what I'd think of as Rock's "voice" based on my dad's comics, versus the action movie, profane dialogue.
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