History + Vampires = One Fun Graphic Novel

Lesser Known That You Should Own #4: Comics and Graphic Novels

My, possibly concerning, obsession with vampires has been made abundantly clear. The fact that I am also a sucker (haha) for historically inspired fiction, especially when it is a subject that has inspired many a rabbit hole, made this graphic novel a no-brainer.

Our story takes place during WWII, specifically in 1944, and along the Czechoslovakian border. Czechoslovakia was subjugated by the Germans in 1938, due to its powerful arms industry, in direction violation of the Munich Agreement, in which the whole region was basically screwed over by everyone in an attempt to stop Hitler from Hitler-ing which didn’t actually work and ended in the deaths of 340,000-345,000 people.

The main character of the story, Nocona, is a Comanche Code Talker. When you read something like this, you immediately know that the author actually did at least some research on WWII. Not only that, but the character is from Oklahoma, which is where the first code talkers from WWI and WWII were from. After the Germans broke communication codes in WWI, a better code was needed, and the code talkers were formed. Using their native languages, the Choctaw Code Talkers were able to develop coded communications. In WWII, the Comanche Code Talkers were tasked with developing an unbreakable code based on their language. They succeeded, and the Comanche code was never broken. Even the main character’s name seems to be a nod to one of the real life Comanche Code Talkers, Haddon Codynah.

I refuse to spoil anything for you besides providing historical information and what is literally written on the cover. But the plot revolves around the Nazis finding a vampire and planning to use the vampire as a weapon to win the war. The Comanche Code Talker, Nocona, has to try to communicate with them in a way that will, hopefully, prevent he and his fellow POWs from being used as human Capri-Suns.

The art, the writing, it is all well done. The story is engaging, and you won’t want to put it down. Instead, if you are anything like me, you will devour it in one setting and not shut up about it for days.

At the time of writing this post, here are the stats for this graphic novel.

GoodReads: 118 ratings; 10 reviews

Amazon: 128 reviews

Like all of the books in this series, it is available on Kindle Unlimited, but you can also purchase it from all the standard places or borrow it through your local library.

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