Special Forces #3
Kyle Baker, story, art, everything ever
Kyle Baker
Joe Kubert and Garth Ennis have spent decades and hundreds of issues demonstrating how the ultimate manifestation of man’s inhumanity to man reaches its peak during times of war. War puts good people into terrible situations, chews them up, and spits them out.
Serious war comics, [...]
Baker said that his intent with “Special Forces” was to skew the current war in Iraq, pointing out how stupid and absurd all wars ultimately are, but that he also wanted to create the “war comedy” of our generation and our current wars. “I wanted to do a Joseph Heller type of thing,” Baker said. [...]
“First and foremost, [Special Forces] is about teenage hot-bodies blowing shit up… All the best comic books are about fights and teenage angst. You want messages, buy a phone. This story is more about teenagers growing up in the 21st century. A world where kids post suicide manifestos on YouTube before shooting up their school [...]
“…not too much happens in our home that’s particularly interesting, let alone funny. If something funny occurs, I sketch it. The gag also needs to be fresh, something I haven’t seen a million times before. Like I never do the ‘kid mispronounces something cutely’ gags, because see that everywhere from Rugrats to Dennis The Menace. [...]
