Apache Delivery Service 1 serves up a frightening look at the Vietnam War. Read our full review of the new Dark Horse miniseries here:
It's not uncommon to find a first issue with a solicit that provides more information than the issue itself, such is the case with Apache Delivery Service #1. The solicit for the new miniseries from writer Matt Kindt and artist Tyler Jenkins emphasizes an odd-couple pairing in the midst of the Vietnam War hunting for gold from past conflicts. Almost none of this is in the issue readers discovered today.
Apache Delivery Service #1 is paced more like the first 24 pages of an original graphic novel and focuses on establishing its setting and mood before all else. It cuts between Ernie's life as a soldier in Vietnam in 1967 and being raised with Navajo traditions in Arizona 5 years earlier. This establishes Ernie as a solitary figure most comfortable in the wilderness, whether that means southwestern canyons or dense jungles.
The miniseries' title is found much sooner than any proper nouns as a splash panel reveals a bomb labeled"Apache Delivery Service" being dropped on coordinates provided by Ernie. He is sent as a tracker to discover North Vietnamese forces and relay their positions for aerial assault. Despite all of the value he brings to his unit, when he does return from a sortie no one even uses his name, opting to define him by his heritage and nicknames instead.
Jenkins leaves no room for doubt about the terror and trauma inflicted on the front lines of Vietnam. As Ernie clambers through the jungle at night and discovers mutilated corpses , readers are left to witness a frightening experience. Dialogue is only used when characters have good cause to speak and so readers are left to parse the silent odyssey through a jungle where fatal intentions run rampant. It's disquieting to say the least.
That eerie mood combined with the very beginning of a character study is enough to keep me interested in wherever Apache Delivery Service might be leading. The series initial pitch seems disconnected from its actual focus. This is a story about an isolated soldier left in the wilderness who discovers new depths of horror in the Vietnamese jungles – a potent pitch.
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