Hey Black Powder! I know you probably don’t take requests but my uncle is a marine veteran and he’s starting to get to the age where his mental health is taking a bit of a toll I was wondering if you could include a character called Sather in his honour
Mercenaries? Cool guns and equipment? Morally grey concepts and situations that characters realistically react and deal with? Very cool, it just needs Revy and it'd be perfect.
Oooh, you used an unattractive straw man and name-calling. How incisive. You're not a good person for not finding violence entertaining. You're just sanctimonious and lack anything but the most superficial understanding of moral principles.
Never heard of this series, but I adore the comic art style. The thick and somewhat dirty outlines being accompanied with a color palette of mostly red and black just speaks to my personal tastes. It's like a perfect marriage between grounded realism and militaristic spectacle.
The desaturated style with the emphasis on the bright red highlights, usually the sunglasses really reminds me of how the VOTOMs OVAs would stylize the Red Shoulders Scopedogs as having glowing bright red shoulder pads in flashback scenes
No Step on Snek (Snake) Comes from the old colonial rebellion flag in the 13 colonies that says don’t tread on me. It’s a yellow flag with a boot about to step on a snake. Why is the animal a snake? I have no idea.
@@lillasagna5487 basically means that you want to be left alone from especially the gov and you've got arms to back it up weirdly enough you sometimes see them fly side by side with blue lives matter flags so... idk what it means in modern day US poltiics but everything gets warped there to fit one of the two camps lol so who cares
I’ve been supporting these guys since 2010. Have always loved their stuff. Glad so see someone I subscribed too reviewing them that had no affiliation before.
BPRE is one of the best graphic novels I’ve had the privilege to support for the past few years. Glad you made this review Loki. The more support they get, the higher quality gear and comics we’ll have.
I’ve met the two guys behind this series multiple times and the passion/love they have for it is amazing. Over the years I’ve bought stuff from them (be it books, patches, shirts, stickers, etc) in the hopes of supporting their dream while getting some really cool things. Couldn’t agree more that I wish they got more attention because they certainly deserve it!
This feels like a series that will turn into an underrated fan-animation that blows up after guntube catches wind of it. One can hope. Oh fuck, there's a numbered cloth bound hardcover available on the site. Goddamnit, time to spend money. DAMN YOU LOLI
funny enough there is a really good fan animation for BP:RE, the original animator deleted their channel but someone reuploaded an archive of the video back on to UA-cam, just serach for Reticulon "Spall & Splinter"
On the note of how plausible the overall plots are, you can debate on if certain governments would allow PMCs to run around warzones like this, but while *possibly* unrealistic it is still very grounded. Not to mention that if you're a somewhat authoritarian government who can't rely on the loyalty or competence of your own security forces, hiring American private contractors as advisors and private kill teams is well within the realm of possibilities. Another aspect I love is how it shows terrorism not even as pure fanaticism and radicalism, but often intertwined with the criminal underworld and national interests. Such as the involvement of Iran in balkanized Iraq and their threat to the newly-established Kurdistan, with Quds Force and Hezbollah officers often making side deals with ISIS in the comics for monetary gains. I've yet to read the Awbari books but I played the game and I love the worldbuilding, especially with the Ayari network and Shadow Emirate's dealings with the black market and I definitely wanna see more of the Hongbin mercenaries.
Most stuff regarding pmcs in fiction are not accurate to how it is irl. Most pmcs are basically glorified security corps. The legal rules of engagement are incredibly restrictive, basically you can't shoot at someone unless you are feeling the bullets whip past your head. Aside from obvious proxy armies like Blackwater back in the day and Wagner for the past decade, most pmcs just guard stuff like any security company would. Just with bigger guns and the guards are ex-spec ops types.
I cant speak for the AWBARI books, but the ones in syria actually had some pretty acute predications about geopolitics in the middle east. the Islamic State in the comic, if I'm remembering correctly, was pretty emblematic of what ISIS would eventually become back then. I cant speak for everything in the book but I think its safe to say they've done their research.
@@cabnbeeschurgr6440 Yeah tbh that's what I meant by grounded. Unless the local government is desperate enough to run interference on their own, or the client state wants to do that to international journalists, a Western PMC would never get away with that except in exceptional circumstances. Now I think you could easily make the case for Eastern PMCs though, especially since you mentioned Wagner, but afaik they tend to be extensions of their state's security forces and are basically serving national interests rather than being a completely private entity.
@@averymicrowave1713 Correct on Wagner. Aside from that little rebellion with Prigozhin, they have operated as plausible deniability for a lot of Russian interests in Syria and Africa (their Africa branch is called the Africa Corps now, go figure) and they also tend to do a lot of war crimes and claim they are acting independently of the Russian govt. Again while Western pmcs aren't exactly saints either they're more likely to abide by international law and rules of engagement.
@@cabnbeeschurgr6440 for the context of BPRE it's really not that unrealistic. UAE or Qatar did hire American PMC to conduct high risk missions or training of private kill squads years ago and I believe that's how the Syria book took inspiration from. It was called Spear Operations Group or something if i remember right and there were news about it. If you dont limit this thing to Americans, then of course you have Wagner groups whose generally private death squads with heavy weapons.
I served in Iraq as an army medic with the 101st airborne and I love this series. I could honestly see this as a true to form alt history. The military industrial complex, PMCs and insurgents are depicted really well and realistically if they were to progress unchecked
Man I hope the normies don't find this series. No offense to the creators and I think the comics are awesome but once normies find anything the tourists are quick to follow
Just read the first issue of the Awbari arc on my lunch break at work and loved it. Thanks for bringing the series to my attention, I'm ordering the second book as soon as I finish typing out this comment.
Definitely wouldn’t be remiss if a AA game studio picked this up for a fps title. Challenge call of duty and have a bit more grittier down to earth story then Special Ops dude winning every fight. Play as the new guy for two missions and then by the end of the second, you just get sniped and die. And then you change characters to the guy to your left, watching the newbie die.
Black powder, red earth is basically what would’ve happened if call of duty Black ops series mix with rainbow six and add elements of Metal gear solid but without the metal gears.
BPRE has been on my radar for awhile, I’ve just been holding off on diving into the table top (my pile of shame is too high), and I wasn’t sold on the graphic novels, but if it’s got your seal of approval, I’ll get the whole series.
It's nice to see you review a comic (Edit:an non-manga comic). Would love to see you review the punisher max comics especially volume 5 of punisher max some day. To keep it short, Great review bro keep it up.
Holy shit! I not only was planning on starting it, but I also got a Ready or Not mod where it gives the NVGs a red tint. Update: I just finished Syria..... Holy shit that ended brutally.
Me: "You're a mercenary. Why do you think we're here?" I do know where the line came from but... with the context of this video, I'd definitely say that to him. :p
Yeah, I’ve had no interest in Rainbow Six Siege. I wish we had gotten Patriots instead. Ghost Recon hasn’t been the same since they went Far Cry with it. And Conviction basically killed Splinter Cell.
I'll keep this one on my radar. I've thought about reading some Tom Clancy before, but I'm more into visual media than full novels. If nothing else, I do like military stories, if they're done right, and I'd love to be able to write something like it, albeit not in the same way, if that makes sense. Also, I kind of found the title generic, at first, but realized it does at least make sense. Decent contrast, lets you know what it's about.
Oh yeah, this. Got the first four volume bundle as a birthday gift from dad back in the 2010's. Totally forgot about it. Thanks for reminding me, i should follow up on this.
Damn, never heard of this series until I watched this video. Now I need to check it out. I haven't read much from Tom Clancy, but I am an avid Vince Flynn reader so I can easily see myself getting into BPRE.
@@deathsnitemaresinfullust2269 yeah he discussed it towards the end lol but there’s a PC version and an IPad version, I played the latter and it’s basically the only game I have on it. This game has more in common with the tabletop game being turn based using movement grids and action points. You can play a campaign or individual missions, three game types (these also being the whole of the campaign but just given context for the scenarios you’re in) and I think 7 maps to play them on. The interior cells of buildings are kinda lacking, being one of two options, but that’s just to have uniformity with the 7 different maps. It’s great for short term play because the individual missions can be done in a few minutes
@@mattthornhill554 yeah, once I got to the end I saw what what your talking about. Sounds like it could've turned into a thing if they just had a bit more time and money to push on.
@@deathsnitemaresinfullust2269 yeah I actually messaged their account on Instagram a couple months back asking about updating the video game and that’s where they told me about the publisher backing out on supporting the game. Which, kudos for them for reaching out to randoms messaging them, love the quick feedback I got. It really bums me out that these guys just aren’t as known as they are because they clearly care about the content they make and the fans
To my surprise I had the game wishlisted on Steam & must've forgot it. huh...it looks like something I would love to play especially since I've gotten into a tactical FPS groove lately.
Checking back in to say I bought/read all 6 available issues of the Awbari arc last week and I'm hooked. I haven't bothered with comics in years but BPRE is really scratching an itch. Can't wait for Awbari VII.
Sounds like something written by a teenage Cormac McCarthy, the author of grim novels exploring the violent potential behind all human interaction like _No Country for Old Men_ and _The Road_ (both now major motion pictures though, I recommend the books before watching). I'm currently reading through his bloody and breathtakingly dream-spectacled dark Western *_Blood Meridian - or - The Evening Redness in The West_* and your description reminds me of the gruesome horrors unfolding on the pages in front of me. I can see Judge Holden's modern incarnation captaining one of these companies or even accompanying its mercs into Hell.
@@BlackPowderRedEarth He has a way with words. Beyond the blood and brutality, he paints vivid desert landscapes in poetic detail that could make for one hell of a graphic novel or HBO series (done right, like _Chernobyl_ or _True Detective S1)._ To illustrate, a single paragraph from Chapter XIV: *_"They rode for days through the rain and they rode through the rain and hail and rain again. In that gray storm they crossed a flooded plain with the footed shapes of the horses reflected in the water among clouds and mountains and the riders slumped forward and rightly skeptic of the shimmering cities on the distant shore of that sea whereon they trod miraculous. They climbed up through rolling grasslands where small birds shied away chittering down the wind and a buzzard labored up from among bones with wings that went whoop whoop whoop like a child's toy swung on a string and in the long red sunset the sheets of water on the plain below them lay like tide pools of primal blood."_* My only complaints are his lack of specialized punctuation marks like commas(,), semi-colons (;), and em dashes (-) to break rambling sentences; his lack of parentheses ( ( ) ) mid-sentence capitalization to emphasize things and onomatopoeias that're clearly meant to convey non-convsational noise like those bird "whoops"; and his total disuse of quotation marks (") to distinguish things spoken by characters. The writing is superb but, the marking is lacking and makes it harder to read because you have to constantly retread sentences and puzzle out relationships betwixt words, characters, and how they're accentuated. I didn't mind his extensive vocabulary and use of Spanish though; it's challenged me to get a thesaurus, dictionary, and diccionario de Español and it's almost like a linguistic archeological exploration into the past when books were made by men more than mindlessly churned out by corporate committees and witless female/DEI authors promoted for the content of their pants and ethnicity. It's not been easy but, I love _Blood Meridian._
I remember there was a cool 4ish minute BPRE fan film a guy made on SFM that was pretty neat but I think the guy nuked his channel. Shame EDIT: It's called "Spall & Splinter" and someone archived it. Looks like there's a bunch of edits with music but the original one had none.
I really need to buy the comics, I’ve played the game and also played a mod for Doorkickers 2 which is a conversion mod that lets you lead the operators of Cold Harbor into various missions along with the theme when its time to get loud called “Compromised”.
9:45 - yes, it is Loli. As long as the culture war exists, it will be a problem. Nothing can be grim, dark, classic (in terms of fantasy or sci-fi, at least), heroic or "unique" anymore. Everything nowadays has to be a sanitized version of the original idea just so it doesn't trigger or offends a member of the so-called " M O D E R N A U D I E N C E". I mean just look at IPs like Star Wars, Marvel, DC, D&D, Tom clancy as you mentioned, and now WH40K with the whole femstodes and boycott fiasco. Trench crusade doesn't even have miniatures and already looks like it's Dead On Arrival.
Loli was talking about normies rather than the woke crowd. I can't imagine a politically neutral dad who loves cod campaigns and Micheal Bay flicks being into a franchise where the "good guys" slaughter an entire village.
While we are on the topic of war, Forever Winter seems to be a game worth keeping your eye on. The premise and world are awesome, I hope the gameplay will be up to snuff.
Awbari was a soft reboot, written originally as a mini series for Netflix pre-COVID. We typically recommend new readers start there as it’s our strongest work 🦅
>"Hopefully it doesn't get too popular too fast." Habibi, not to worry. The creators are doing it for their love of the game, not just for the money. They know who they're making it for: themselves. It just so happens that *we* like it, too.
The comic art looks really fucking good especially the coloring for the various combat scenes, hell I would say this would look good as a video game cut scene.🐱
One instalment in a series that I love that still keeps blessing me with insomnia, and alcoholism because it's easier for my brain to process under the influence. It's Jagged Alliance 2, which isn't really goes for a tone, per say, but the tone could be generated by the way you play the game, (forgot to mention) It's a video game from 1999, by a great company, the game is very granular, open ended, non-linear, very deep but plays so intuitive, balanced between tactical/strategy gameplay and outlines of your Merc personalities. Lots of skirmishes that generates full stories in your head, that clicks in an instant once it happens, because unlike XCOM, JA2 is very visceral, that's the Magic of this game. I've played it alot over 23 years and can't say I experience all 95% of its hidden mechanics.
Thank you for the review!
Hey Black Powder!
I know you probably don’t take requests but my uncle is a marine veteran and he’s starting to get to the age where his mental health is taking a bit of a toll
I was wondering if you could include a character called Sather in his honour
@@hilotakenaka the current series is actually written to completion. There's no real opportunity to insert add't characters at this point.
@@BlackPowderRedEarth Ah well, that's alright! I'll check it out sometime!
@@hilotakenakaThey're currently making a new IP. Maybe they could put your uncle as either an homage or a simple reference.
Loli saying that more villages will be bombed unless you buy GamerSupps shows that the Gamer Industrial Complex has gone too far.
Gamersupps: Plastic packaging. Plastic packaging: made of oil. If my media literacy skills serve me correctly i think Gamersupps did 9/11.
Gamersupps backed colombian deathsquad when?
we truly must rise up.
I’d like to propose that we call this series of shorter reviews “Under 5’4”s”
Vidlets
Ben Shapiros?
As someone who is 5'4", I give permission.
@@FirithPanda you sound breedable asl lil bro🤤
@@AgniFirePunch Say you're joking right now.
Mercenaries? Cool guns and equipment? Morally grey concepts and situations that characters realistically react and deal with? Very cool, it just needs Revy and it'd be perfect.
Imagine a crossover if you will?
@@ximthedespot4673 Very good idea. On another note, I have a feeling that this would be a hit in Japan if it got a translation.
@@gojira7824 The guy behind their social media accounts is really into Revy
Now I just imagine Rock in a two piece suit accompanying her when talking to some bigwig right at Iraq
@@gojira7824It kind of already is. It's slowly building up, especially because of the cosplay community.
this is what the beergutted 45 year old at the range daydreams he is, it's fucking sick
Oooh, you used an unattractive straw man and name-calling. How incisive.
You're not a good person for not finding violence entertaining. You're just sanctimonious and lack anything but the most superficial understanding of moral principles.
Tom Clancy kinda did it to himself. He allowed his name to just be a brand ghost writers would use and wasn't particular about choosing a successor.
Some of the successors have been better than others
Never heard of this series, but I adore the comic art style. The thick and somewhat dirty outlines being accompanied with a color palette of mostly red and black just speaks to my personal tastes. It's like a perfect marriage between grounded realism and militaristic spectacle.
The desaturated style with the emphasis on the bright red highlights, usually the sunglasses really reminds me of how the VOTOMs OVAs would stylize the Red Shoulders Scopedogs as having glowing bright red shoulder pads in flashback scenes
Funnily enough there is a team of modders making a massive conversion mod for ready or not to make it based around bpre which i cant wait for
Notice for those of you from the future:
This was made before the live action adaptation. Thank you.
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🐍 no step on snek!🇺🇸🇭🇰
I've seen the no step on snek a lot these last couple of years, but i dont know what it means and I'm really curious. Could you explain?
No Step on Snek (Snake) Comes from the old colonial rebellion flag in the 13 colonies that says don’t tread on me. It’s a yellow flag with a boot about to step on a snake. Why is the animal a snake? I have no idea.
@@lillasagna5487 basically means that you want to be left alone from especially the gov and you've got arms to back it up
weirdly enough you sometimes see them fly side by side with blue lives matter flags so... idk what it means in modern day US poltiics
but everything gets warped there to fit one of the two camps lol so who cares
@@crusader2112 Presumably, because if you step on it, it bites back.
@@GentleHeretic True.
Huh? Never heard of this one, thanks Loli. I'm definitely going to look into this one
Same, never heard of it.
Same. Just ordered one of the comics.
Same, now im need money for it
This is a vet we have to support. Support the almighty loli
Do the whole village, you say?
*To shreds, you say?*
@@TheSutanianWell, what about his wife?
@@bastardluigi*His wife, you say?*
I’ve been supporting these guys since 2010.
Have always loved their stuff.
Glad so see someone I subscribed too reviewing them that had no affiliation before.
BPRE is one of the best graphic novels I’ve had the privilege to support for the past few years. Glad you made this review Loki. The more support they get, the higher quality gear and comics we’ll have.
Sundowner's favourite visual novel.
I’ve met the two guys behind this series multiple times and the passion/love they have for it is amazing. Over the years I’ve bought stuff from them (be it books, patches, shirts, stickers, etc) in the hopes of supporting their dream while getting some really cool things. Couldn’t agree more that I wish they got more attention because they certainly deserve it!
Binged this guy for about the last 20 hours, new video drops, the day is good.
This feels like a series that will turn into an underrated fan-animation that blows up after guntube catches wind of it. One can hope.
Oh fuck, there's a numbered cloth bound hardcover available on the site.
Goddamnit, time to spend money. DAMN YOU LOLI
😂
This feels like something that guy who made the scp short films would make, with all that tactical gear for the mtf teams. Can't recall his name rn
*cough* Check out Spall and Splinter *cough*
funny enough there is a really good fan animation for BP:RE, the original animator deleted their channel but someone reuploaded an archive of the video back on to UA-cam, just serach for Reticulon "Spall & Splinter"
On the note of how plausible the overall plots are, you can debate on if certain governments would allow PMCs to run around warzones like this, but while *possibly* unrealistic it is still very grounded. Not to mention that if you're a somewhat authoritarian government who can't rely on the loyalty or competence of your own security forces, hiring American private contractors as advisors and private kill teams is well within the realm of possibilities.
Another aspect I love is how it shows terrorism not even as pure fanaticism and radicalism, but often intertwined with the criminal underworld and national interests. Such as the involvement of Iran in balkanized Iraq and their threat to the newly-established Kurdistan, with Quds Force and Hezbollah officers often making side deals with ISIS in the comics for monetary gains. I've yet to read the Awbari books but I played the game and I love the worldbuilding, especially with the Ayari network and Shadow Emirate's dealings with the black market and I definitely wanna see more of the Hongbin mercenaries.
Most stuff regarding pmcs in fiction are not accurate to how it is irl. Most pmcs are basically glorified security corps. The legal rules of engagement are incredibly restrictive, basically you can't shoot at someone unless you are feeling the bullets whip past your head.
Aside from obvious proxy armies like Blackwater back in the day and Wagner for the past decade, most pmcs just guard stuff like any security company would. Just with bigger guns and the guards are ex-spec ops types.
I cant speak for the AWBARI books, but the ones in syria actually had some pretty acute predications about geopolitics in the middle east. the Islamic State in the comic, if I'm remembering correctly, was pretty emblematic of what ISIS would eventually become back then.
I cant speak for everything in the book but I think its safe to say they've done their research.
@@cabnbeeschurgr6440 Yeah tbh that's what I meant by grounded. Unless the local government is desperate enough to run interference on their own, or the client state wants to do that to international journalists, a Western PMC would never get away with that except in exceptional circumstances.
Now I think you could easily make the case for Eastern PMCs though, especially since you mentioned Wagner, but afaik they tend to be extensions of their state's security forces and are basically serving national interests rather than being a completely private entity.
@@averymicrowave1713 Correct on Wagner.
Aside from that little rebellion with Prigozhin, they have operated as plausible deniability for a lot of Russian interests in Syria and Africa (their Africa branch is called the Africa Corps now, go figure) and they also tend to do a lot of war crimes and claim they are acting independently of the Russian govt.
Again while Western pmcs aren't exactly saints either they're more likely to abide by international law and rules of engagement.
@@cabnbeeschurgr6440 for the context of BPRE it's really not that unrealistic. UAE or Qatar did hire American PMC to conduct high risk missions or training of private kill squads years ago and I believe that's how the Syria book took inspiration from. It was called Spear Operations Group or something if i remember right and there were news about it. If you dont limit this thing to Americans, then of course you have Wagner groups whose generally private death squads with heavy weapons.
Gonna have to pick this series (and one of their shirts) soon
For how deadpan his delivery is, Loli has the most aggressive sponsorship and merch ads I've ever seen
I served in Iraq as an army medic with the 101st airborne and I love this series. I could honestly see this as a true to form alt history. The military industrial complex, PMCs and insurgents are depicted really well and realistically if they were to progress unchecked
Man I hope the normies don't find this series. No offense to the creators and I think the comics are awesome but once normies find anything the tourists are quick to follow
You don’t have to worry about us watering the series down. We have a knack for making people cry ♣️
This screams youve never felt the touch of a woman and it shows
yeah dude keep gate keeping and and you just might kill the franchise
Nerd
@@thatonefpsgamer1339
For the record, the OP's comment is wrong.
But you, spacegarage6826 and elliottv.3782 more or less just proved his point.
I like the fact, that you used Spec Ops: The Line's OST as a backround music, beacause it's very fitting for this story and setting ;)
0:26 That is the LEAST out-there sounding alternate history I have ever heard of.
ikr I heard that and just thought. "so Syria?"
loli is from different timeline mandela effect confirmed?
Just read the first issue of the Awbari arc on my lunch break at work and loved it. Thanks for bringing the series to my attention, I'm ordering the second book as soon as I finish typing out this comment.
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Definitely wouldn’t be remiss if a AA game studio picked this up for a fps title. Challenge call of duty and have a bit more grittier down to earth story then Special Ops dude winning every fight. Play as the new guy for two missions and then by the end of the second, you just get sniped and die. And then you change characters to the guy to your left, watching the newbie die.
Holy shit! I haven't read the comics but i LOVE the art! Thanks dude! i Hope this makes a big bump for people to check out.
This is a strange-looking arc of Berserk
Been supporting their patreon for years, love em
The best part of any TAL's videos, "Use the code or another village gets hit with white phosphorus,,,,"
Black powder, red earth is basically what would’ve happened if call of duty Black ops series mix with rainbow six and add elements of Metal gear solid but without the metal gears.
Non cyberpunk MGS? So basically Tom Clancy lol
BPRE has been on my radar for awhile, I’ve just been holding off on diving into the table top (my pile of shame is too high), and I wasn’t sold on the graphic novels, but if it’s got your seal of approval, I’ll get the whole series.
It's nice to see you review a comic (Edit:an non-manga comic).
Would love to see you review the punisher max comics especially volume 5 of punisher max some day.
To keep it short, Great review bro keep it up.
Holy shit! I not only was planning on starting it, but I also got a Ready or Not mod where it gives the NVGs a red tint.
Update: I just finished Syria..... Holy shit that ended brutally.
There's a huge BPRE themed conversion mod in the works for Ready or Not, so keep an eye out for that 👀
"He turned us into fucking killers!"
Never heard of this before. Sounds cool. Might also check out the boardgame.
Me: "You're a mercenary. Why do you think we're here?"
I do know where the line came from but... with the context of this video, I'd definitely say that to him. :p
>It would be cool if Spiderman did show up.
And thats why we love The Punisher so much
Yeah, I’ve had no interest in Rainbow Six Siege. I wish we had gotten Patriots instead. Ghost Recon hasn’t been the same since they went Far Cry with it. And Conviction basically killed Splinter Cell.
I'll keep this one on my radar. I've thought about reading some Tom Clancy before, but I'm more into visual media than full novels. If nothing else, I do like military stories, if they're done right, and I'd love to be able to write something like it, albeit not in the same way, if that makes sense.
Also, I kind of found the title generic, at first, but realized it does at least make sense. Decent contrast, lets you know what it's about.
Oh yeah, this. Got the first four volume bundle as a birthday gift from dad back in the 2010's. Totally forgot about it.
Thanks for reminding me, i should follow up on this.
Thanks for the intro, I had seen the comics but was doubtful. Also I didn't know there were games 👍
I've been needing a series like this to dig into. Thanks TAL
From Black Powder, Red Earth to Energy Powder, Burning Earth and Im here for it
Oh sweet, Loli doing lesser known Comic reviews now is awesome. Now I’m gonna pay him to review the Webcomic Shark.
Cold Harbor in every theatre of war: We're not gonna f*cking survive by the end.
Damn, never heard of this series until I watched this video. Now I need to check it out. I haven't read much from Tom Clancy, but I am an avid Vince Flynn reader so I can easily see myself getting into BPRE.
Spec ops the line OST playing in the backround is a nice touch.
Well this is a pleasant surprise...
This looks interesting as all hell
You doing get a lot of real hardcore war comics that’s not made by Garth Ennis
Merciless? That is the understatement of the decade.
So bummed about the game, they didn’t make enough money out of it and it’s no longer being supported by the company that put it together for them
There's a game for this?
@@deathsnitemaresinfullust2269 yeah he discussed it towards the end lol but there’s a PC version and an IPad version, I played the latter and it’s basically the only game I have on it. This game has more in common with the tabletop game being turn based using movement grids and action points. You can play a campaign or individual missions, three game types (these also being the whole of the campaign but just given context for the scenarios you’re in) and I think 7 maps to play them on. The interior cells of buildings are kinda lacking, being one of two options, but that’s just to have uniformity with the 7 different maps. It’s great for short term play because the individual missions can be done in a few minutes
@@mattthornhill554 yeah, once I got to the end I saw what what your talking about. Sounds like it could've turned into a thing if they just had a bit more time and money to push on.
@@deathsnitemaresinfullust2269 yeah I actually messaged their account on Instagram a couple months back asking about updating the video game and that’s where they told me about the publisher backing out on supporting the game. Which, kudos for them for reaching out to randoms messaging them, love the quick feedback I got. It really bums me out that these guys just aren’t as known as they are because they clearly care about the content they make and the fans
But I want both the sups and the white phosphorus war crimes
To my surprise I had the game wishlisted on Steam & must've forgot it. huh...it looks like something I would love to play especially since I've gotten into a tactical FPS groove lately.
oh shit, i didn't knew there was a game for this thing that i saw for the first time in my life, in thus very video review.
A Loli review that’s less than 20 minutes long and released in half the time? I’m surprised lol.
Alternate? We're on that time line.
BPRE!!! MENTIONED!!!!!! RRRRRRRRRRRRRAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH
I thought i was hearing shit.
Praising BPRE and shitting on Ubisoft? You got yourself a subscriber.
Well if we talking about tacticool gun kino, can you do review for Ajin demi human?
It's for the best if this series never gets to the mainstream. A gem should be admired by a select few of people
That looks like my cup of tea.
Checking back in to say I bought/read all 6 available issues of the Awbari arc last week and I'm hooked. I haven't bothered with comics in years but BPRE is really scratching an itch. Can't wait for Awbari VII.
Talking about Gun Porn, Dark Horse just announced a re-release of the Gunsmith Cats manga...
Sounds like an interesting series, will definitely check it out. Thanks Loli.
Sounds like something written by a teenage Cormac McCarthy, the author of grim novels exploring the violent potential behind all human interaction like _No Country for Old Men_ and _The Road_ (both now major motion pictures though, I recommend the books before watching). I'm currently reading through his bloody and breathtakingly dream-spectacled dark Western *_Blood Meridian - or - The Evening Redness in The West_* and your description reminds me of the gruesome horrors unfolding on the pages in front of me. I can see Judge Holden's modern incarnation captaining one of these companies or even accompanying its mercs into Hell.
Cormac McCarthy, specifically Blood Meridian, is one of my favorite books.
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He has a way with words. Beyond the blood and brutality, he paints vivid desert landscapes in poetic detail that could make for one hell of a graphic novel or HBO series (done right, like _Chernobyl_ or _True Detective S1)._
To illustrate, a single paragraph from Chapter XIV: *_"They rode for days through the rain and they rode through the rain and hail and rain again. In that gray storm they crossed a flooded plain with the footed shapes of the horses reflected in the water among clouds and mountains and the riders slumped forward and rightly skeptic of the shimmering cities on the distant shore of that sea whereon they trod miraculous. They climbed up through rolling grasslands where small birds shied away chittering down the wind and a buzzard labored up from among bones with wings that went whoop whoop whoop like a child's toy swung on a string and in the long red sunset the sheets of water on the plain below them lay like tide pools of primal blood."_*
My only complaints are his lack of specialized punctuation marks like commas(,), semi-colons (;), and em dashes (-) to break rambling sentences; his lack of parentheses ( ( ) ) mid-sentence capitalization to emphasize things and onomatopoeias that're clearly meant to convey non-convsational noise like those bird "whoops"; and his total disuse of quotation marks (") to distinguish things spoken by characters. The writing is superb but, the marking is lacking and makes it harder to read because you have to constantly retread sentences and puzzle out relationships betwixt words, characters, and how they're accentuated.
I didn't mind his extensive vocabulary and use of Spanish though; it's challenged me to get a thesaurus, dictionary, and diccionario de Español and it's almost like a linguistic archeological exploration into the past when books were made by men more than mindlessly churned out by corporate committees and witless female/DEI authors promoted for the content of their pants and ethnicity.
It's not been easy but, I love _Blood Meridian._
I remember there was a cool 4ish minute BPRE fan film a guy made on SFM that was pretty neat but I think the guy nuked his channel. Shame
EDIT: It's called "Spall & Splinter" and someone archived it. Looks like there's a bunch of edits with music but the original one had none.
Great review! Thank you!
Just bought and finished the Syria arc in one setting… That ending.. dang…
I really need to buy the comics, I’ve played the game and also played a mod for Doorkickers 2 which is a conversion mod that lets you lead the operators of Cold Harbor into various missions along with the theme when its time to get loud called “Compromised”.
9:45 - yes, it is Loli. As long as the culture war exists, it will be a problem. Nothing can be grim, dark, classic (in terms of fantasy or sci-fi, at least), heroic or "unique" anymore. Everything nowadays has to be a sanitized version of the original idea just so it doesn't trigger or offends a member of the so-called " M O D E R N A U D I E N C E". I mean just look at IPs like Star Wars, Marvel, DC, D&D, Tom clancy as you mentioned, and now WH40K with the whole femstodes and boycott fiasco. Trench crusade doesn't even have miniatures and already looks like it's Dead On Arrival.
Loli was talking about normies rather than the woke crowd. I can't imagine a politically neutral dad who loves cod campaigns and Micheal Bay flicks being into a franchise where the "good guys" slaughter an entire village.
Reddit is to the right buddy
While we are on the topic of war, Forever Winter seems to be a game worth keeping your eye on. The premise and world are awesome, I hope the gameplay will be up to snuff.
Never heard of BPRE before, but I'll defenitely check it out now. This looks like the exact kind of story I'd love.
Well now this caught my attention. Thanks for giving me a new interest
To save the village, you must destroy it.
The art looks impressive for a niche comic like this
BPRE is damn cool
Hell yeah
Great review!
There's also a 28mm miniature-game based on it.
very based
A bit into the video I was reminded of Cat Shit One which I'd love to see a review of lol
Both the original manga series and '80
Cold Harbor: 🍷🗿
So basically like the PMC Blackwater, the comic?
I'll check it out!
This honestly more gives me the same vibes as the Armored Core games. the EARLY gen Armored Core games... And I love it.
Armored Core has literally influenced my entire creative career.
@@BlackPowderRedEarth I mean, despite being a bunch of mech games... It has one of the best depictions of mercenaries in media.
Remember when you mentioned doing a Samurai Champloo video back i xour Afro Samurai review? I remember. I always remember.
This is fuckin' sick 👌 I'm ordering the first book of the Awbari series. I hope that's a decent place to start?
Awbari was a soft reboot, written originally as a mini series for Netflix pre-COVID. We typically recommend new readers start there as it’s our strongest work 🦅
@@BlackPowderRedEarth awesome! Thanks so much for answering my question. Cheers!
>"Hopefully it doesn't get too popular too fast."
Habibi, not to worry. The creators are doing it for their love of the game, not just for the money. They know who they're making it for: themselves. It just so happens that *we* like it, too.
The comic art looks really fucking good especially the coloring for the various combat scenes, hell I would say this would look good as a video game cut scene.🐱
Garand thumb moment 😂
Tfw the JDAM hits the mud hut just right
You should check out '68. Its about zombies showing up in the Vietnam War.
You got me by the dope thumbnail I'll read it
One instalment in a series that I love that still keeps blessing me with insomnia, and alcoholism because it's easier for my brain to process under the influence.
It's Jagged Alliance 2, which isn't really goes for a tone, per say, but the tone could be generated by the way you play the game, (forgot to mention) It's a video game from 1999, by a great company, the game is very granular, open ended, non-linear, very deep but plays so intuitive, balanced between tactical/strategy gameplay and outlines of your Merc personalities.
Lots of skirmishes that generates full stories in your head, that clicks in an instant once it happens, because unlike XCOM, JA2 is very visceral, that's the Magic of this game.
I've played it alot over 23 years and can't say I experience all 95% of its hidden mechanics.
Good finds! Look awesome to me.
The art style for some reason reminds me of either Sin City or Madness Combat.
Sold.
peak mentioned...
well i know now what to read once i finsh "guerre & dragon" serie👍
The Hunt for Red October was by Tom Clancy???
I never actually knew that, tf. I love that movie, it's awesome.
SPALL AND SPLINTER bros, where we at?
P.S. I'm still butthurt at your Apocalypse Now vid and your take on counter-insurgency lol