This is the fourth volume of the series but the first I've read. Wierdly I only found out it existed about a fortnight before I found this copy on New Years eve in Cheltenham.I can't comment on the other volumes but this one pretty much carries on where his 'War Stories' books left off. It's very much in the tradition of the British war comics I used to love as a kid but with the swearing and the futility left in.
'Happy Valley' concerns the crew of a Wellington bomber who have just received their hot shot new kiddie pilot with only 3 sorties of their stint remaining. It's pretty formulaic stuff plot-wise but Ennis is always readable even when, like here, he's not firing on all cylinders (horrible cliche there - shame on me).
The art is nice - nothing amazing but I really don't dig the colouring - everyone's exactly the same colour. It's not going to stop me keeping an eye out for the others though.
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