Coinciding with the 50th anniversary of Battle Comics, Pat Mills brings Ragtime Soldier (the continuation of Charley’s War) to Kickstarter.
The World War I story (which first appeared in a 11 page story in the Great War Dundee) is written by Mills with art by Gary Welsh and Phil Vaughan.
Mills said “I wanted to show the Ragtime Soldiers as they really were. Often they were teenagers –like our hero Robbie McTaggart- crazy about Ragtime, the cool music of its day. Their parents hated Ragtime because it was hot, sexy, black music. And these kids had a dark, Monty Python, very cynical, British sense of humour as you can see from their song.”
“The story starts with Robbie in a barbaric trench raid, with soldiers using weapons straight out of the Middle Ages, and develops into a wider story of modern mass-murder and soldiers driven crazy by battle. It’s a story with not just a twist in the tale, but a sting in its tail.”
Ragtime Soldier is available as a 48 page comic (with a digital version included), a standard hard cover edition, and a deluxe hardback with dust jacket, ribbon and foil, and exclusive end pages.
The Kickstarter campaign ends on March 27.
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