Battlefields #7

(2010)

Motherland Part One of Three (Table of Contents: 1)

Battlefields / comic story / 22 pages (report information)

Script

Garth Ennis (credited)

Pencils

Russ Braun (credited)

Inks

Russ Braun (credited)

Colors

Tony Aviña (credited)

Letters

Simon Bowland (credited)

First Line of Dialogue or Text

Lieutenant Anna Borsinova Kharkova.

Genre

war

Characters

Lieutenant Anna Kharkova; [Anna Borsinova Kharkova]; Colonel Golovyachev (commanding officer); Major Merkulov (political officer, or commissar); Private Meriutsa [Mouse] (female mechanic); air crew; ground crew

Synopsis

Demoted and transferred for habitual belligerence, Kharkova nevertheless is now assigned to a high-performance fighter aircraft. While she receives stern encouragement from the colonel, she's avoided as a weird loner -- not least because of her conversations with the long-dead Zoya. When the airfield is attacked the neophyte Merkulov panics, breaks down completely, and has to be taken away. Zoya opines that the colonel likes Anna.

Reprints

• in The Night Witches (Naval Institute Press, 2019 series) (2019)

Keywords

Gender roles; Great Patriotic War; Red Air Force; Russia; Soviet Union; U.S.S.R.; Union of Soviet Socialist Republics; USSR; World War II