Zero tolerance

Discerning fans of war comics will revel in the flashy, hard-edged carnage that unfolds in Chuck Dixon and Doug Mahnke's thrilling Team Zero. A WWII romp of impossible odds with no shortage of gruesomely-dispatched bodies, the story goes that a commando unit comprised of "seven of the killingest bastards that America has to offer" infiltrate eastern Germany for a mission that will determine the end of the war. Mahnke's vigorous artwork drags the genre into these show-anything times, the violence littered with oddly-compelling details - be it gritted teeth spattered with blood or the look of shock on a soldier's face as he's riddled with rifle fire.