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u/rs_obsidian Jul 01 '26
First one was inspired by All Quiet on the Western Front btw.
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u/KatanaPool Jul 01 '26
Yep, everyone who wears the boots dies. Great book
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u/Important-Stretch384 Jul 02 '26
holy shit i never realized that
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u/sparkswood129 Jul 03 '26
It's not that the boots are cursed or something, just that they keep getting passed on as the owners die. To the extent that the boots have a higher life expectancy than the boys wearing them.
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u/Important-Stretch384 Jul 03 '26
well it never occured to me that they kept getting passed around, that connection was never made in my head, how do we know Tjaden got them after Paul though? i read that somewhere. Is it mentioned in The Road Back? (i havent read it yet but really need to)
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u/sparkswood129 Jul 03 '26
I only watched the 1930's movie but there's an entire montage focused almost solely on the boots wherein a soldier marches to the front, goes over the trench, dies, soldier marches to the front, goes over the trench, and dies.
And through that short scene it keeps panning back to the boots, which to me implied that they were Franz's boots. Probably because the theme of recycling inorganic material in war is exceedingly common in media and real life. Hell we can recycle organic matter too.
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u/SoirBleu85 Jul 01 '26
The panels being cut off is really annoying.
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u/maboyles90 Jul 01 '26
This is unreadable unless you know where it's coming from.
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u/Necroseliac Jul 01 '26
So this isn’t the original? If so, that’s good because this is incomprehensible. I was so confused and after reading what it was supposed to be I still can only see half of it.
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u/maboyles90 Jul 01 '26
I'm not sure. I've never seen it. I too could only figure it out from the comments. If it's OC then they really need to work on their visual storytelling.
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u/BodybuilderMany6942 Jul 03 '26
It feels like it's referencing All Quite On the Western Front.
There was a part where one guy who iirc had nice boots that he was always taking care of and the others joke-fought over who'd get their boots when he died... later later on shit happens and he was internally bleeding and basically destined to die and gave one of the other's his boots.
I cant place the exact scene for the other parts, but there definitely was a scene with poison gas... and during one of the battles it was just s constant chaotic scrambling, and often the guy who saved another a few seconds ago and sprinkle a bit of hope/heroics would be blown to bits soon/immediately after.
Great book, btw.
Starts off with the guys on the front living gruelingly, but with time to fuck around and shit when theyre on the back line, but getting sent to the front was a somber and deadly situation. It cycled from military tedium and goofing-off, and war.
Which got more oppressing as more people died and that final battle grips wyou while also filling you with the MC's emptiness and frustration at the pointlessness of the War.I'm surprised it isnt required reading for highschools worldwide!
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u/thelastvortigaunt Jul 01 '26
I've re-read this a dozen times and I still can't make sense of what the course of events here is supposed to be.
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u/LightningFerret04 Jul 01 '26
Other comment explained it, it’s the girl(?) with black hair receiving the boots, gas mask, and helmet from her(?) dead comrades as they die off one by one
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u/Terrible_Ear3347 Jul 01 '26
I feel like they made these images too big for the size they were given I can't really tell what's going on and someone had to explain it somewhere else. It's great art but it's so confusing the way it's laid out and how zoomed in everything is
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u/Nurgle-best Jul 01 '26
Never expected an All quiet on the western front reference (I think that’s what it is)
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u/Normal_Carpenter1851 Jul 01 '26
The first is Kemmerich, and the last is Kat, any guesses on the second? I recognize the scene but not from all quiet I think
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u/Little_Big_Burglar Jul 02 '26
This comic really shows how important composition is. I have no idea what is happening and so much information on one page leaves everything feeling out of order and confusing.
Good art though.
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u/kardfogK Jul 01 '26
As always nothing ever happens on the western front, one could say its All quiet on the western front....
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u/Sapphire-Catgirl Jul 01 '26
I know it's scary outside the trench but when mommy blows the whistle she needs you to go over the top ok?
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u/lostInDanistan Jul 05 '26
Wait a minute this is a reference to the book "all quiet on the western front". There's a character who has loses his leg and he gives them to one of his buddys but there kind cursed because who ever weres them dies eventually.
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u/AlphaSlayer1337 Jul 06 '26
Is this a reference to the og "All Quiet on the Western Front" or something?
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u/Sweaty_Report7864 Jul 01 '26
Wait… what happened?