In your defense, Silver Age comics were weird about death sometimes. I know that Sgt. Rock and his company actually killed and got killed(at least in the stories I read) but his counterpart Sergeant Fury and the Howling Commandoes never seemed to kill anyone in their adventures. Fury seemed to win all of his battles through shooting the guns out of his enemies' hands or fisticuffs. Perhaps this wasn't true of all issues(I've only read a few of each title), but the bloodlessness of Marvel comics was extremely strange in war titles. Perhaps Cooke is merely suggesting an ideology behind such behavior. However, merely luring enemy planes into the path of his comrades does seem pretty cowardly. If Cooke had merely made this about Jordan's refusal to engage an enemy that had already effectively surrendered and holding onto that hope as things became more desperate, I think the story would have worked and the morality wouldn't inspire "What the-" reactions.
I think you're being way too hard on yourself, Johnny. There's a lot to like about the book. And Robby certainly has a point that the "tradition" in question goes a long way back.
Hey, remember when we dropped the atomic bomb on Hiroshima, and it blasted the guns out of the hands of everybody in Japan? Then they picked them up again, so we had to drop another one on Nagazaki. Those were the days, man!
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