{"id":4301,"date":"2017-06-25T22:00:34","date_gmt":"2017-06-26T02:00:34","guid":{"rendered":"\/\/kirbymuseum.org\/blogs\/kirby\/?p=4301"},"modified":"2017-06-26T01:21:49","modified_gmt":"2017-06-26T05:21:49","slug":"kill-me-with-wagner-k036","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kirbymuseum.org\/blogs\/kirby\/archives\/4301","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;Kill Me With Wagner&#8221; (k036)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"\/\/kirbymuseum.org\/blogs\/kirby\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/8\/2017\/06\/k036a.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter  wp-image-4303\" src=\"\/\/kirbymuseum.org\/blogs\/kirby\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/8\/2017\/06\/k036a.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"447\" height=\"375\" srcset=\"https:\/\/kirbymuseum.org\/blogs\/kirby\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/8\/2017\/06\/k036a.jpg 1200w, https:\/\/kirbymuseum.org\/blogs\/kirby\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/8\/2017\/06\/k036a-300x252.jpg 300w, https:\/\/kirbymuseum.org\/blogs\/kirby\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/8\/2017\/06\/k036a-768x644.jpg 768w, https:\/\/kirbymuseum.org\/blogs\/kirby\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/8\/2017\/06\/k036a-1024x858.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/kirbymuseum.org\/blogs\/kirby\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/8\/2017\/06\/k036a-624x523.jpg 624w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 447px) 100vw, 447px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Kill Me With Wagner&#8221; is a 20-page story by Jack Kirby from\u00a0OUR FIGHTING FORCES #151 [1974], inked and lettered by D. Bruce Berry. \u00a0At this time the title featured The Losers, a team made by combining three separate cancelled war features, Johnny Cloud, Captain Storm and Gunner &amp; Sarge, placing them in various theatres of operation in WWII. It was primarily written by Robert Kanigher, but for a dozen issues in the middle of their run, starting with this one, Jack Kirby was the writer\/artist for the feature, which turned out to be a surprising highlight of the last year of his five-year run at DC. Kirby drew on his own war experience, filtered through his boundless creativity, to tell some exciting stories.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"\/\/kirbymuseum.org\/blogs\/kirby\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/8\/2017\/06\/k036.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-4302 alignright\" src=\"\/\/kirbymuseum.org\/blogs\/kirby\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/8\/2017\/06\/k036.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"406\" height=\"611\" srcset=\"https:\/\/kirbymuseum.org\/blogs\/kirby\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/8\/2017\/06\/k036.jpg 1200w, https:\/\/kirbymuseum.org\/blogs\/kirby\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/8\/2017\/06\/k036-200x300.jpg 200w, https:\/\/kirbymuseum.org\/blogs\/kirby\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/8\/2017\/06\/k036-768x1155.jpg 768w, https:\/\/kirbymuseum.org\/blogs\/kirby\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/8\/2017\/06\/k036-681x1024.jpg 681w, https:\/\/kirbymuseum.org\/blogs\/kirby\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/8\/2017\/06\/k036-624x938.jpg 624w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 406px) 100vw, 406px\" \/><\/a>For his first story, Kirby places the Losers in a small town in occupied France, where they have the mission to rescue famed (but apparently never photographed) concert pianist Emma Klein, being hidden by the Maquis. The youngest Loser, Gunner, gets captured, and the others come in with the help of the Maquis. I like how the women brought in as hostages get into the fight in the middle of their rescue.<\/p>\n<p>Kirby does an especially good job with a sequence on the last few pages, showing the the entire town being leveled by Allied shelling following the rescue. Very cinematic, with Kirby setting up Wagner\u2019s \u201cRide of the Valkyries\u201d as the soundtrack to the destruction in the previous scene (which is significantly before APOCALYPSE NOW used it in a similar vein).<\/p>\n<p>https:\/\/www.comics.org\/issue\/27687\/#182752<br \/>\nJACK KIRBY&#8217;S THE LOSERS [2009]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;Kill Me With Wagner&#8221; is a 20-page story by Jack Kirby from\u00a0OUR FIGHTING FORCES #151 [1974], inked and lettered by D. 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