That was scarier than anything from the nightmares of church going folk about the devil and his details. With such a dire backdrop, the story of a serial killer who may or may not have suckered two FBI agents into taking a trip into the literal realm of Hell itself, paled in comparison to the surge in radical political polarization in the US. While parts of the story are set during the election season of would-be President Donald Trump, it was released in an era where President Trump was running for a second term. Roughly two years later, the work remains as rich and powerful as the political dread that gripped a nation and a world in 2016 through 2020. There is a lot of horror competing for the eyeballs and off-hours of readers across the world.

Americans, a book written by Garth Ennis (who’s worked on famous superhero characters like Punisher and Batman but also writes original sci-fi works like Caliban) with art by Goran Sudzuka, (most famous for Vertigo Comics’ dystopia Y the Last Man, but having also worked on American superhero comics Thor and Wonder Woman ) was quietly released into a market glutted with many works. Volume one of series in paperbackĮarly on, during the point where The Pandemic was still just “That thing that’s like the flu, but a little worse” in the minds of most U.S.

Garth Ennis & Goran Sudzuka’s horror masterwork remains powerful and will be relevant for ages to come.

War Is Hell by Garth Ennis