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surprising you of freedom isn't deserving of a people approach. Hello and welcome to Angry Planet. I'm Matthew Galt. From mud through blood to the

green fields beyond. The tank was meant to push through entrenched

enemy lines and put an end to the stalemate of trench warfare during the Great

War. It ended up creating a whole new kind of combat. It was high risk, high reward as men and armored units

trundled across the world. With us today is comics writer Garth Ennis. Ennis is the diabolical mind behind Sarah, Hit Man, War Stories, The Boys, and Preacher.

He's here today talking with us about his new collection of war stories, Tankies.

Set during World War II and the Korean War, Tankies tells the story of British Tank

crews as they fight across Europe and Asia.

Sir, thank you so much for joining us.

My pleasure.

Thanks for having me. So what is it about tanks? Why do we love them so much? Why do we like telling stories about them?

I think on the most basic level, it's a big clanking machine a big iron box with a gun that goes bang and that gets that takes hold of you at a young enough age you never forget it.

As for a story it's a good opportunity to tell a team story.

You've got four or five guys, very much focused on the same object, each with his own individual job, but all part of a coherent whole.

And if they get it right, they survive, they drive on to triumph.

Of course, what you need there, especially in comics, is you need a really good artist which I did have and Carlos

Scarra because you're talking again you're talking about four or five guys all

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