Female protagonists in Commando?
Posted: 09 Oct 2017, 05:43
Are there any Commandos that have female protagonists rather than male? I know that one, "Fatherland", has just come out, but are there any others?
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Thank you. The first of many we hope.colcool007 wrote:You also have Operation Nachthexen (4599) which featured the first female lead. The same characters also featured in Witch Hunt (4616) and Warrior's Return (4635).
All three featured the same creative team of Mac Macdonald writing and Carlos Pino doing all the art.
To be fair, she did last for 21 weeks. Quite a number of girls' serials didn't get that many.Tammyfan wrote:And let us not forget the sadly short-lived Kitty Hawke from Girl I.
How on earth can you read all those war stories, Col, and still stay sane?colcool007 wrote:You also have Operation Nachthexen (4599) which featured the first female lead. The same characters also featured in Witch Hunt (4616) and Warrior's Return (4635).
Very easily. I saw what the real thing does and these can easily be classed as light relief. Now there's a point, what would anyone class as the funniest Commando issue?Phoenix wrote:How on earth can you read all those war stories, Col, and still stay sane?colcool007 wrote:You also have Operation Nachthexen (4599) which featured the first female lead. The same characters also featured in Witch Hunt (4616) and Warrior's Return (4635).
Obviously I have to read all relevant war stories when I am preparing something that will eventually be published, but war is only one of a large number of themes that would feature in such a book. When you have heard the Air-Raid sirens, and after the blackout curtains have been drawn and the electric lights switched off, and you've had to be protected by your mother under a table or whizzed out to your local stone-topped brick shelter, you tend to get very angry indeed with the people attacking you. War anywhere offends me to such an extent that I don't see any aspect of it in print as light relief, and as for the current Trump (arrogant)/North Korea (pragmatic) situation, it may not be too long before we become collateral damage in a ''my pecker's bigger than yours'' situation. So no, Colin, there is no light relief in war fiction, just more glorification.Phoenix wrote:How on earth can you read all those war stories, Col, and still stay sane?colcool007 wrote:Very easily. I saw what the real thing does and these can easily be classed as light relief.
On this subject, we are going to have to agree to disagree. If you ever watched Blackadder Goes Forth, M*A*S*H, Soldier Soldier or Bluestone 42 or read Catch-22, you will see that there is humour in any situation. As my sense of humour is very dark, I will laugh in the face of fear because otherwise you cave in to it. As to the sirens calling, I have heard them for real on a grand total of two times and that is when you truly understand the meaning of "brown adrenaline"!Phoenix wrote:Obviously I have to read all relevant war stories when I am preparing something that will eventually be published, but war is only one of a large number of themes that would feature in such a book. When you have heard the Air-Raid sirens, and after the blackout curtains have been drawn and the electric lights switched off, and you've had to be protected by your mother under a table or whizzed out to your local stone-topped brick shelter, you tend to get very angry indeed with the people attacking you. War anywhere offends me to such an extent that I don't see any aspect of it in print as light relief, and as for the current Trump (arrogant)/North Korea (pragmatic) situation, it may not be too long before we become collateral damage in a ''my pecker's bigger than yours'' situation. So no, Colin, there is no light relief in war fiction, just more glorification.Phoenix wrote:How on earth can you read all those war stories, Col, and still stay sane?colcool007 wrote:Very easily. I saw what the real thing does and these can easily be classed as light relief.
That is probably because when you don't see someone for a long period of time, Col, you tend to remember them as they were when you last saw them. In our case that was when you lived in High Barnet, and you may recall that I even slept over on one of my visits. I particularly remember three things, chatting to Karen, reading to your youngest daughter Iona from a Dandy annual that she was leafing through, and holding my nose every time the underground train went through Finchley.colcool007 wrote: I must admit that I never realised that you were in your mid to late 70s
"Nobody Loves a Genius!" is one that incorporates humour, and the platoon themselves have a really good laugh in the end. Scroggs from "Entry Forbidden!" is also a comical character.colcool007 wrote:Very easily. I saw what the real thing does and these can easily be classed as light relief. Now there's a point, what would anyone class as the funniest Commando issue?Phoenix wrote:How on earth can you read all those war stories, Col, and still stay sane?colcool007 wrote:You also have Operation Nachthexen (4599) which featured the first female lead. The same characters also featured in Witch Hunt (4616) and Warrior's Return (4635).
He'd have to be with a name like that!Tammyfan wrote:Scroggs from "Entry Forbidden!" is also a comical character.
You will find more on Scroggy here https://jintycomic.wordpress.com/2017/0 ... dden-1981/Phoenix wrote:He'd have to be with a name like that!Tammyfan wrote:Scroggs from "Entry Forbidden!" is also a comical character.