DON`T WALK THE TRAILS - A tale from the NAM

I originally done this story likely over ten years ago . I felt it worth reviving , especially with my new acquittance with Comic Life . Hope you enjoy the story .  

Great comic, Chip!

Wow! That story is intense!

Visually, the images and dialog flows logically. There is no confusion as to the order of images or captions.

The pics are sharp and clear.

The lettering layout in the panels is clear and readable.

The technical aspects come together to create a gripping vignette where the drama of the story is at the forefront of the presentation.

Great work!

Nice job Chip.

Flows really well.

A fantastic read Chip! really well photographed and put together. The guys really do look god outside

As bad as a day in the Nam!

Thank you so much for those quick and encouraging replies . So pleased you enjoyed it .

Nice work Chip these are Brilliant!! Ian

Great work, love the photography!

Thanks Chaps , glad you liked it .

awesome story Chip

now why the heck while I was reading it in my head I could hear Fade to Black playing

Chip wrote:

Thanks Chaps , glad you liked it .

This prompted me to re-watch an old Vietnam flick called "Go Tell The Spartans," starring Burt Lancaster, just yesterday. It deals with the US military's early involvement in Vietnam, just before it became a quagmire, but when there was still time to pull out.

"Though the film had a limited release in the United States, critics, especially those opposed to the Vietnam War, praised it: "In sure, swift strokes", wrote Arthur Schlesinger Jr. in the Saturday Review, "it shows the irrelevance of the American presence in Vietnam, the corruption wrought by that irrelevance, and the fortuity, cruelty, and waste of an irrelevant war." Stanley Kauffmann of The New Republic wrote in June 1978- 'This is the best film I've seen to date about the Vietnam War excepting two documentaries. Roger Grooms, in the Cincinnati Enquirer, judged it to be "one of the noblest films, ever, about men in crisis".

"Over time, the previously overlooked film became an antiwar classic. At one of its revivals, it was described as:"

"A cult fave – and deservedly so – Go Tell the Spartans was hard-headed and brutally realistic about our dead-end presence in Vietnam; released the same year as Coming Home (United Artists) and The Deer Hunter (EMI Films released by Universal Pictures), the film won critical admiration, but audiences preferred individualized sagas, sentiment, and romantic melodrama. Rather than tackle the effects of the war on physically and emotionally wounded vets, this brave film exposed the fundamental, tactical lunacy of the war as perceived by an American officer (Burt Lancaster) who knows better, but must follow through on stupid, self-destructive orders from above. This is one of Lancaster's best performances: embittered, a cog in the military juggernaut, this good man foresees the killing waste to come."