Flying FortressThe World War II era used to be a fairly popular setting for comics. Captain America, Nick Fury, and Sgt. Rock were all originally active during WWII (and Captain America Comics was actually printed during the war). But there aren’t many WWII comics being published today. Half of the story in Scott Austin’s webcomic Heroes, Inc. took place during WWII, through flashbacks. Sadly, Scott had to discontinue Heroes, Inc. last year and for a while, The Specialists was just about the only WWII comic around.

So we were really glad to have found Flying Fortress! Flying Fortress is the story of a B-17 bomber crew whose mission is to bomb Hitler’s “Eagle’s Nest”. But a funny thing happens on the way to Berchtesgaden and the crew soon find themselves battling an enemy from their darkest nightmares. (I don’t mean to be vague, but I don’t want to give anything away!)

Flying Fortress is the work of writer Andrew Walker and artists Eric Weathers and Andy Moore. I don’t mean to diminish the overall artwork, which is nice, but I have to call out the planes. Someone clearly put a lot of time into drawing all the planes in this series, and they look great!

Flying Fortress is available in print and online. There are three print issues available, and the online version has been adding a page every weekday (it’s about halfway through the second issue as of this writing). So check out the comic for free online and if you like what you see, you can order hardcopies from their store.

You can also come meet the Flying Fortress Crew at the Denver Comic Con in June, which, coincidentally is also where Al and I will be!