{"id":815,"date":"2006-05-10T02:50:22","date_gmt":"2006-05-10T02:50:22","guid":{"rendered":"\/\/kirbymuseum.org\/blogs\/kirby\/archives\/815"},"modified":"2006-05-10T02:50:22","modified_gmt":"2006-05-10T02:50:22","slug":"our-fighting-forces-161-1975-the-majors-dream","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kirbymuseum.org\/blogs\/kirby\/archives\/815","title":{"rendered":"Our Fighting Forces #161 [1975] &#8211; The Major&#8217;s Dream"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Despite a generic Joe Kubert cover showing the Losers wandering into a German trap, this is another Kirby issue of OFF and set in Burma, where the Losers team with a British officer, Major Soames, to set up an observation post in an area where the Major previously lost his whole regiment.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" id=\"image814\" src=\"\/\/kirbymuseum.org\/blogs\/kirby\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/8\/2006\/05\/OurFightingForces1611975.jpg\" alt=\"OurFightingForces1611975.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Ever since, the Major is plagued by vivid dreams involving demons, bottomless pits and multi-armed creatures.  The Losers manage to fulfil their mission among the ruins of a temple, but the Major finds his dream coming to life.<\/p>\n<p>Not the greatest main story, but there&#8217;s a lot to like about this issue, like the depiction of the dream, which Kirby always does well.  I especially like this bit of narration:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Soon there is silence, the &#8220;<strong>Half-Sleep<\/strong>&#8221; of tired men&#8230; whose senses listen while their bodies regenerate for <strong>renewed<\/strong> action.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>A nice description no doubt based on Kirby&#8217;s own experiences in WWII.<\/p>\n<p>D. Bruce Berry inks the 18-page story.<\/p>\n<p>Published 1975<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Despite a generic Joe Kubert cover showing the Losers wandering into a German trap, this is another Kirby issue of OFF and set in Burma, where the Losers team with a British officer, Major Soames, to set up an observation post in an area where the Major previously lost his whole regiment. Ever since, the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,22],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-815","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-genre","category-war"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kirbymuseum.org\/blogs\/kirby\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/815","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kirbymuseum.org\/blogs\/kirby\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kirbymuseum.org\/blogs\/kirby\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kirbymuseum.org\/blogs\/kirby\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kirbymuseum.org\/blogs\/kirby\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=815"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kirbymuseum.org\/blogs\/kirby\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/815\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kirbymuseum.org\/blogs\/kirby\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=815"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kirbymuseum.org\/blogs\/kirby\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=815"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kirbymuseum.org\/blogs\/kirby\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=815"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}