303 (comics)
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
| This infobox is under going an upgrade that affects image. As it is in use on 960+ articles and involves a manual change, updating will take time. Please bear with us. For those wishing to help, just reduce the image information to "filename.ext". For images to be shown at less than 250px, add imagesize=x (no "px"). Thanks. |
| 303 | |
 Cover to 303 #1 (October 2004). Art by Jacen Burrows. |
|
| Publisher | Avatar Press |
|---|---|
| Schedule | Monthly |
| Format | Limited series |
| Publication date | October 2004 - October 2005 |
| Number of issues | 6 |
| Creative team | |
| Writer(s) | Garth Ennis |
| Artist(s) | Jacen Burrows |
| Colorist(s) | Greg Waller |
303 is a six-issue comic-book mini-series created by Garth Ennis and Jacen Burrows, and published by Avatar Press. The story targets a mature audience and is critical of contemporary American system.
Contents |
[edit] Plot summary
The story spans two parts titled "Afghanistan's Plains" and "Black Arrow" (after a monologue in J.R.R. Tolkien's The Hobbit) each consisting of three issues and centers around a Russian Spetsnaz colonel.
In the first part the colonel leads a Russian team investigating a plane crash in Afghanistan. Violence soon erupts after first British and then American military forces become involved in the investigation. In the aftermath, the colonel helps a wounded British Special Air Service trooper who translates a document found on the plane. The document suggests that there is a high-level conspiracy in the United States; that the Global War On Terror was started in order to facilitate the west taking over the oil-rich Middle East.
In the second part the colonel travels alone to the United States in order to carry out a self-assigned mission, where he first faces a sheriff troubled by the loss of her wife because of the deficiency of their insurance. The story also focuses on the problems of illegal Mexican immigrants apparently exploited at a slaughterhouse called "McHell". The Colonel eventually assassinates the President of the United States with the intention of stopping the Global War on Terror, using a Lee-Enfield rifle using only iron sights, firing from behind a closed window.
[edit] Name
The title of the series refers to a .303 British calibre Lee-Enfield rifle.
[edit] Collection
The issues have been collected as a trade paperback:
- 303 (by Garth Ennis and Jacen Burrows, Avatar Press, 6-issue mini-series, 2004, tpb, 144 pages, March 2007, ISBN 1592910378)
[edit] References
- 303 at the Comic Book DB
- Press release for issue #1
 |
This comics-related article is a stub. You can help Wikipedia by expanding it |
Pour accéder à la version originale de cet article ou pour participer à Wikipédia, il sous suffit de suivre ce lien
An article from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia, distributed under GFDL (authors)
To view the original version of this article or to improve Wikipedia, just follow this link