Battlefields #6 - Motherland

(2010)

[no title indexed] (Table of Contents: 1)

cover reprint (on interior page) / 1 page (report information)

Pencils

Garry Leach (credited)

Inks

Garry Leach (credited)

Colors

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Letters

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Chapter 1 (Table of Contents: 2)

Battlefields: Motherland / 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.

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

[no title indexed] (Table of Contents: 3)

cover reprint (on interior page) / 1 page (report information)

Pencils

Garry Leach (credited)

Inks

Garry Leach (credited)

Colors

?

Letters

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Chapter 2 (Table of Contents: 4)

Battlefields: Motherland / 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

Are you a pilot, Comrade Lieutenant?

Genre

war

Characters

Captain Anna Kharkova; [Anna Borsinova Kharkova]; Colonel Golovyachev (commanding officer); Private Meriutsa [Mouse] (female mechanic); air crew; ground crew; dying soldier

Synopsis

The Colonel, clearly enjoying Anna's company, takes her for a drive and informs her that because of heavy losses she is promoted back to captain, and given command of a flight. The entire unit is ambushed as they try to blunt the Nazi attack, but she commands well, breaking away from her insistence on going it alone, even praising and encouraging Mouse. When she is named a Hero of the Soviet Union she makes a drunken pass at the colonel, who tells her that although his wife was killed by Germans he considers himself married until the last invader has been driven from their homeland.

Keywords

Battle of Kursk; Hero of the Soviet Union; Red Air Force; Russia; Soviet Union; U.S.S.R.; Union of Soviet Socialist Republics; USSR; World War II

[no title indexed] (Table of Contents: 5)

cover reprint (on interior page) / 1 page (report information)

Pencils

Garry Leach (credited)

Inks

?

Colors

?

Letters

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Chapter 3 (Table of Contents: 6)

Battlefields: Motherland / 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

You're not putting me in charge of them...!

Genre

war

Characters

Captain Anna Kharkova; [Anna Borsinova Kharkova]; Colonel Golovyachev (commanding officer); Private Meriutsa [Mouse] (female mechanic); air crew; ground crew; neophyte pilots; Captain Bobrov (political officer, or commissar)

Synopsis

Because of staggering losses, Anna is assigned six new female pilots, all scarcely trained to fly, barely introduced to the fighter plane, and with no preparation for combat. She grounds them all, but while she and Golovyachev are fighting the new political officer orders them up. Anna and the colonel set off to find them, but he is killed, forcing her to face the truth that she no longer wants to be alone. She finds her pilots, who have hung back because of fear, talks them into formation, and leads them home.

Keywords

Battle of Kursk; Red Air Force; Russia; Soviet Union; U.S.S.R.; Union of Soviet Socialist Republics; USSR; World War II

Sketches and Designs by Russ Braun (Table of Contents: 7)

illustration / 5 pages (report information)

Pencils

Russ Braun (credited)

Inks

Russ Braun (credited)

Letters

typeset

Characters

Lieutenant Anna Kharkova; [Anna Borsinova Kharkova]; Colonel Golovyachev; Private Meriutsa [Mouse]