First is this shit-show. The begining panel, from the POV, makes it look like the Japanese are the ones invading the island, as the bulk of their forces are coming from the beach. The battle lines have completely collapsed AND the offshore bombardment is actually between both forces, which have degenerated into complete free for all like it's fucking 1400 France, meaning that whichever side fought to create the beach-head outran their artillery support. The artwork is jumbled and confusing. It's a bad panel with no real movement and tells you little more than the Japanese and US forces are engaged in pitch fighting.
Now, the character on the left suffers from Tumblr "Bandage Face" syndrome, especially the strip across the nose. Overlooking that bandaids weren't a thing, it still looks pathetic and sad. If she WAS injured in those locations during an island invasion, either her face would be bandaged or the wounds would be left open to the air with iodine and sulfa powder dumped on them.
So she's Tumblr OC all the way.
The one on the right looks like Brie Larsen taking a shit. And that fucking sword is goddamn hideous in design, making me wonder if the designer had seen a kitchen knife, much less a broadsword.
Sigh.
Second panel: Casualties on all sides are mounting. Apparently civilians are joining in with farm implements. The wounded are not being evac'd to the rear and instead are being forced to push forward. The artwork is goddamn terrible, and it (un)intentionally looks like the US troops are massacring civilians while the Japanese Army tries to protect them.
Neither panel has our heroes in it, making you wonder what the fuck they're doing.
Panel Three: Oh boy, some action lines.
First of all, apparently the jap on the left threw a fucking black-cat firework, since a real grenade going off right there would have turned three of them into fucking hamburger.
One of our heroes, Sword Girl, is leaping from a high point (the cliffs nearby), meaning that either the US troops have the high ground to either side or that she ran up there on her own. She's jumping from behind the tank with her sword.
And here's where it goes to shit...
Panel Four...
The Japanese soldiers shown on either side of the tank are now missing. None of them are taking an obvious shot. Her motion pose now suggests she came at the tank from the front, the path of the sword, which is apparently slicing through a light tank despite being held sideways. She has sliced through the barrel too. This is supposed to be an "OMG SO COOL GIRL POWER" moment, but instead looks fucking stupid and your brain laughs and goes "LOL NO" even though we've seen Supes throw tanks, Captain America blow them up with a light tap of his shield, and the Hulk gently shake out soldiers then hang around long enough to hand out bandaids and headpats.
The tank has apparently also moved backwards, away from the ditch that the helpless male soldiers were cowering in.
There is so much wrong with this panel...
BUT, you might say, it's just the ROUGH DRAFT! Maybe the colorized is...
oh.
Well, our GURL POWAH character, who is apparently a God, has pink fucking hair. Great.
Oh, and the rank on the second guy from the left is upside down. And why did they put camo-lines on the tank and uniforms when mono-color was pretty much the word of the day, and the soldiers on the left hand panel would be wearing OD green, not camo.
Holy fuck, this is a goddamn shitshow.
Oh, and the 4 guys are still fucking dead if that was anything bigger than an M-80.
And holy shit, if you know your fucking history involving the Pacific Campaign, the idea that "Gods" joined in because of hate is laughable. That was some of the most brutal and savage fighting the US has ever seen.
Those two women are fucking blood Gods of the Warhammer 40K style if they showed up to participate in a theater where the fucking nips were eating POWs and the US forces were strapping dead bodies to the tanks to act as additional armor and to let the Japs know what was going to happen to them. If they stuck with what went on, those two "Gods" would be ripping Nip heads off to drink their blood, feast on their yellow flesh, and adorn themselves with skulls before indulging in orgies and burning motherfuckers alive.
