So we've been looking at some of the times when British boys' war comic Commando decided to add a little supernatural into the mix. Well, for this final post we have two comics which apparently take their inspiration from Vault Of Horror.
Each issue uses a framing device before going into individual stories, all of deal with bad people doing bad things. Interestingly, the miscreants are all on the Allied side.
Suffice it to say, at the end the hammer of judgement comes down hard.
Commando 5693: Nightmare Express (2023)
Four men are detailed to guard a train compartment. Strangely, for such an important the door isn't locked. Temptation quickly proves too much and all four men step inside to find something terrifying.
Two airmen murder a comrade and all seems well until he comes back to fly with them one last time.
A soldier robs the wrong shop.
A shipwrecked sailor is rescued by a lifeboat from a civilian liner. A liner that sank decades ago.
(My personal favourite out of the three0
I am confident that there is no way this would have been published in the 1970s because bloody hell, this is straight out of one of the darker Twilight Zone episodes.
Like a lot of Commando stories, it ends with the bad guys getting their karmic reward; but in most stories, the villain dies and that's it. Here it looks like that's only the start.
Commando 5795: Strange Frequencies (2024)
Three members of a medical team are sent out into the desert to check on an observation post. They arrive to find a collection of graves and a single dead body. What happened; disease or something worse?
