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Wunderwaffen #1
The Devil's Pilot
In the summer of 1946 the war still rages in Europe after the surprise failure of the Normandy landings. Strange, revolutionary jets nicknamed WUNDERWAFFEN now defend Germany and the Allies race to halt what has become an aerial slaughter.
Hauptmann Walter Murnau, a talented pilot and man of honour, is personally decorated by Hitler and dubbed “The Devil’s Pilot”, instantly becoming a propaganda icon for the Nazi regime. In a future where the bad is about to get worse, “The Devil’s Pilot” will learn that hell is never that far away...
Hauptmann Walter Murnau, a talented pilot and man of honour, is personally decorated by Hitler and dubbed “The Devil’s Pilot”, instantly becoming a propaganda icon for the Nazi regime. In a future where the bad is about to get worse, “The Devil’s Pilot” will learn that hell is never that far away...
51 pages, Unknown Binding
First published January 1, 2012
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December 24, 2022
Rating 3 out of 5 | Grade: B; WWII dogfights with Nazi Jets
Here we are back again, indulging in the junk food of Alternate history fiction; what if the Nazis won the war. Only this time around they didn't. As what happened in the real world, WWII happened, and the allies defeated Imperial Japan by dropping the nukes on Hiroshima & Nagasaki. Everything is quiet on the eastern front.
Only, the western front is still very much a contested battlefield. Downright catastrophic weather conditions saw the Landings at Normandy, as well as D-day, turn into a devastating failure. Much like the Persian fleet on the Greek shores, the allied naval offensive was blunted, and the Axis powers got a brief respite, allowing them to stay in the war late into 1946.
The coinciding launch of the Lippisch .13a, the German ramjet prototype, swung the scale more in favor of the Germans, especially when it came to aerial engagements.
Skies above Europe became a graveyard, where slower propeller driven aircraft flying at lower altitudes, became fish in a barrel for the faster higher altitude Nazi jets. Now, I can already imagine the armchair historians start winding up to argue how just because they're faster jets, doesn't necessary mean they'd have been able to take out the WW2 level fighters. Something about heat seeking weapons, maneuverability and the likes.
I'm not arguing with you. Like most fictional stories, this wouldn't hold water under scrutiny. But, for the sake of reading a pulpy entertaining what if? tale, let us assume that Nazis developed jets, and successfully put them in service to them completely outclass the allied counterparts. After all the story has to happen.
With greater losses, and the loss of the technological edge, the Allied offensive is on the backfoot, trying to catch up fast (If this goes like the other alternate history stories, they will soon). But for now, the Nazis rule the skies, and have managed to defend Germany and the bulk of their empire.
Now Hitler being the neurotic f**k that he is, starts ordering more and more Wunder-waffen (wonder weapons) out of R& D to be developed so that they might turn the tides of war. Which has resulted in a stalemate, between the vast industrial capacity war machine of the allies, versus the limited in number, but technologically superior German Luftwaffe.
But hey man, you might wonder, 'Why haven't the Americans dropped a couple of nukes on Berlin to end the war like in Japan?' For which there is an in-story answer, one which you'd have to read the story to know.
Anyways, this is the first of 16 issues for what I'm hoping for is a good series. But before proceeding, some thoughts.
Story, Art & Dialogue
The story, as I mentioned above is interesting enough that you'd want to keep reading the formulaic alternate history fic. And it seems to fall under the sub-niche within the 'Nazis won WW2' genre; the 'Nazis didn't win the war, but have the allies in a stalemate, leading to a bloodier war'.
The highlight of the comic is its art, with the visually gorgeous, action-packed dogfights between the German Jets and the allied air force. the Illustrators were able to capture the sense of urgency, chaos and impending doom of aerial warfare. The frames with the jets are dynamic and pages filled with dogfights and debris make for pages with a lot happening.
The same cannot be said about the people design, where faces are drawn in wooden and unemotive manner.
Which might be apt considering the wooden dialogue. Reading through the dialogue was stilted, artificial sounding and didn't really sync with the character expressions or pace of the story. It just seems broken and disjointed, which makes you think this was written by someone for whom English is not the most fluent second language (Which might be the case, as I peruse the author section on Goodreads)
So far, the pay off between the great art vs bad dialogue is towards the art, and I'll keep with the series. Hoping things would improve.
Here we are back again, indulging in the junk food of Alternate history fiction; what if the Nazis won the war. Only this time around they didn't. As what happened in the real world, WWII happened, and the allies defeated Imperial Japan by dropping the nukes on Hiroshima & Nagasaki. Everything is quiet on the eastern front.
Only, the western front is still very much a contested battlefield. Downright catastrophic weather conditions saw the Landings at Normandy, as well as D-day, turn into a devastating failure. Much like the Persian fleet on the Greek shores, the allied naval offensive was blunted, and the Axis powers got a brief respite, allowing them to stay in the war late into 1946.
The coinciding launch of the Lippisch .13a, the German ramjet prototype, swung the scale more in favor of the Germans, especially when it came to aerial engagements.
Skies above Europe became a graveyard, where slower propeller driven aircraft flying at lower altitudes, became fish in a barrel for the faster higher altitude Nazi jets. Now, I can already imagine the armchair historians start winding up to argue how just because they're faster jets, doesn't necessary mean they'd have been able to take out the WW2 level fighters. Something about heat seeking weapons, maneuverability and the likes.
I'm not arguing with you. Like most fictional stories, this wouldn't hold water under scrutiny. But, for the sake of reading a pulpy entertaining what if? tale, let us assume that Nazis developed jets, and successfully put them in service to them completely outclass the allied counterparts. After all the story has to happen.
With greater losses, and the loss of the technological edge, the Allied offensive is on the backfoot, trying to catch up fast (If this goes like the other alternate history stories, they will soon). But for now, the Nazis rule the skies, and have managed to defend Germany and the bulk of their empire.
Now Hitler being the neurotic f**k that he is, starts ordering more and more Wunder-waffen (wonder weapons) out of R& D to be developed so that they might turn the tides of war. Which has resulted in a stalemate, between the vast industrial capacity war machine of the allies, versus the limited in number, but technologically superior German Luftwaffe.
But hey man, you might wonder, 'Why haven't the Americans dropped a couple of nukes on Berlin to end the war like in Japan?' For which there is an in-story answer, one which you'd have to read the story to know.
Anyways, this is the first of 16 issues for what I'm hoping for is a good series. But before proceeding, some thoughts.
Story, Art & Dialogue
The story, as I mentioned above is interesting enough that you'd want to keep reading the formulaic alternate history fic. And it seems to fall under the sub-niche within the 'Nazis won WW2' genre; the 'Nazis didn't win the war, but have the allies in a stalemate, leading to a bloodier war'.
The highlight of the comic is its art, with the visually gorgeous, action-packed dogfights between the German Jets and the allied air force. the Illustrators were able to capture the sense of urgency, chaos and impending doom of aerial warfare. The frames with the jets are dynamic and pages filled with dogfights and debris make for pages with a lot happening.
The same cannot be said about the people design, where faces are drawn in wooden and unemotive manner.
Which might be apt considering the wooden dialogue. Reading through the dialogue was stilted, artificial sounding and didn't really sync with the character expressions or pace of the story. It just seems broken and disjointed, which makes you think this was written by someone for whom English is not the most fluent second language (Which might be the case, as I peruse the author section on Goodreads)
So far, the pay off between the great art vs bad dialogue is towards the art, and I'll keep with the series. Hoping things would improve.
March 16, 2020
Three and a half stars.
I suppose, like many others, that I am fascinated by the mythical Wunderwaffen, Hitler's secret weapons. So, I enjoyed this comic because of the detailed drawing of some of these planes, most of which did not pass the experimentation or prototype phase in our history because fortunately the war ended earlier.
Precisely this is an alternate history set in 1946. In a similar way as in The Man in the High Castle novel, the premise is that although the Japanese Empire was defeated (not in the Philip K: Dick's novel), in Europe the Normandy landing was a disaster and the war continued. There are also many other World War II planes, both from the Allied and from the German side. The script is more than correct, and the story unfolds from two perspectives, in the aerial battles and intrigues from the Churchill and Hitler's head quarters.
I suppose, like many others, that I am fascinated by the mythical Wunderwaffen, Hitler's secret weapons. So, I enjoyed this comic because of the detailed drawing of some of these planes, most of which did not pass the experimentation or prototype phase in our history because fortunately the war ended earlier.
Precisely this is an alternate history set in 1946. In a similar way as in The Man in the High Castle novel, the premise is that although the Japanese Empire was defeated (not in the Philip K: Dick's novel), in Europe the Normandy landing was a disaster and the war continued. There are also many other World War II planes, both from the Allied and from the German side. The script is more than correct, and the story unfolds from two perspectives, in the aerial battles and intrigues from the Churchill and Hitler's head quarters.
December 3, 2022
Sağlam bir What-if hikayesi. Amerikalılar ikinci dünya savaşında Japonyayı atom bombası ile vurmuş ve pasifik cephesinde savaş bitmiş ancak Avrupa'da başarısızlıklar birbirini kovalamış; Jukov öldüğü için Sovyetler ilerleyemiyor, Normandiya çıkartması başarısızlıkla sonuçlandığı için Almanya savaşa devam edebiliyor... Tüm bunların içinde savaştaki çatışmalardan sağ çıkması ile ünlenen bir Alman pilot, başına geleceklerden habersiz şekilde Goebels'in propaganda makinesi için Hitler'den madalya alıyor...
Nazilerin gerçekten savaşın kaderini değiştirebilecek jet motorlu savaş uçaklarından füzelere ve daha başka teknolojik atılımlarını yapabilselerdi nasıl bir savaş yaşanırdı sorusuna yanıt arıyor çizgi roman.
Nazilerin gerçekten savaşın kaderini değiştirebilecek jet motorlu savaş uçaklarından füzelere ve daha başka teknolojik atılımlarını yapabilselerdi nasıl bir savaş yaşanırdı sorusuna yanıt arıyor çizgi roman.
April 29, 2025
Quelle platitude. Espèce d'uchronie slaque, sans envergure, qui se prend les pieds dans les détails poches de la gestion des nouveaux avions de l'Allemagne nazie. La moitié des pages met en scène des combats aériens incompréhensiblement découpés, saupoudrés de « Sale yankee ! » toutes les deux cases. Le reste, c'est des discussions ennuyantes à se flinguer qui se déroulent dans des bureaux génériques. On ne comprend rien, c'est plate, c'est laid, who cares ? Comment cette série a pu se rendre à 24 tomes dépasse l'entendement. Ça devient peut-être super bon au tome 13, mais désolé, je me rendrai pas là.
March 8, 2023
Very good, interesting.
November 4, 2025
Tamamen savaş kazanmaya yönelik üretilmeye çalışılan Alman silahlarıyla ilgili bir konu. İlginç, ama tamamiyle doğru da değil.
August 22, 2016
Concept intéressant, surfant sur la récente vague d'uchronie sur la WW2 mais pas mauvais pour autant. Le dessin est correct tout en étant loin de frôler le génie mais les scènes aériennes sont bien ficelées (ce qui d'un autre côté paraît le minimum vu qu'il s'agit de l'idée de base).
Il s'agit d'un tome 1, donc d'une introduction et l'instant le personnage principal apparaît sans trop de relief. Cela pourrait être gênant mais à ce stade c'est acceptable; on entre dans l'uchronie, il faut poser les bases.
Non, ce qui m'a gêné le plus ce sont les dialogues/pensées des personnages et divers commentaires du genre "Pendant ce temps..." qui m'ont donné l'impression de faire un voyage dans le temps. Il faut que le scénariste intègre le fait que Quentin Tarantino et Brian Michael Bendis sont passés par là et que ce style de narration a pas loin de 20 ans de retard. Ca m'embête un peu de lire une BD du 21e siècle qui me donne l'impression d'avoir été écrite en 1960.
Ce tic de narration a clairement fait baisser la note d'une * en ce qui me concerne mais ne m'empêchera pas de tenter le tome 2 un de ces jours.
Il s'agit d'un tome 1, donc d'une introduction et l'instant le personnage principal apparaît sans trop de relief. Cela pourrait être gênant mais à ce stade c'est acceptable; on entre dans l'uchronie, il faut poser les bases.
Non, ce qui m'a gêné le plus ce sont les dialogues/pensées des personnages et divers commentaires du genre "Pendant ce temps..." qui m'ont donné l'impression de faire un voyage dans le temps. Il faut que le scénariste intègre le fait que Quentin Tarantino et Brian Michael Bendis sont passés par là et que ce style de narration a pas loin de 20 ans de retard. Ca m'embête un peu de lire une BD du 21e siècle qui me donne l'impression d'avoir été écrite en 1960.
Ce tic de narration a clairement fait baisser la note d'une * en ce qui me concerne mais ne m'empêchera pas de tenter le tome 2 un de ces jours.
June 29, 2014
The first in a series, this fun WW2 alternate history graphic novel is an easy read and the artwork is top notch. It's cool seeing some of the experimental prototype aircraft from WW2 Germany come to life as well as some rather notorious characters of the day. A little of the dialogue seemed a bit unusual and didn't seem to flow all that well to me, but I read the English edition that is translated from the original French so maybe that's the reason. This said, it's still really easy to read through, and the images help tremendously to follow the action.
July 22, 2017
Not very polished but still interesting concept for an alternate outcome of the WWII Normandy invasion, in which the Allies are defeated and pushed back to England, and Germany is having the upper hand in the still raging war in 1946 with super-jets for the Luftwaffe that look like modern drones. Nobody is neither likable nor truly dislikable here as far as I could tell.
April 25, 2017
This is actually a re-read but it seems I forgot to register this book the first time.
The art is very decent and the plot so far is pretty good.
This is another uchronie about world war two where the Normandie attack was a failure and the war is still going on in 1946.
The art is very decent and the plot so far is pretty good.
This is another uchronie about world war two where the Normandie attack was a failure and the war is still going on in 1946.
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