The comic book debut by director Michel (Be Kind Rewind, The Science of Sleep) Gondry. Written and drawn by Gondry, this action packed comic book tells the story of four friends, the French army, and a beautifully horrifying conspiracy to take over the world. This one has it all: guns, girls, death, friendship, Mia Farrow, and so much more.

We Lost the War But Not the Battle is about four draft dodgers, one of whom is dead, who are called up to fight an army of women.

Publisher- Picture Box
Comic- 32 pages
Dimensions- 26.5 x 20 cm.
Cover- Paperback
Binding- Staple Bound
Color- Color

Michel Gondry is best known as the director of playfully experimental films marked with striking visual passages and surreal plot twists. With We Lost the War but not the Battle, Gondry applies his signature filmmaking techniques to the art of the comic book, telling the story of four middle-aged art school friends who get recruited by the French government to fight a group of communist female soldiers who are threatening to take over the world.

I guess Michel Gondry is always (at least) mildly misogynistic, but "We Lost the War But Not the Battle" (subtitle: "a revengeful story") brings it to new heights. Partially 'cause it's a comic book, partially 'cause it's about a group of men fighting an army of women ("magnificent, angry creatures") with imposing thighs, helmets, and nipples poking through their tanktops. And that's only the beginning. If one can get beyond that, there are many little/wondrous Gondry inventions & cute phrases in broken English.

This straight-up 32-page full color comic book by the famed French Filmmaker, Michel Gondry, rounds out this month's PictureBox trifecta.  Perhaps the zaniest war comic ever produced, Gondry pits four former draft evading slackers against a hoard of communist babes intent on taking over France in this over the top satire that conflates the battle between the sexes, the war on communism and modern America-centric militarism to create a comic book that has a surprisingly large amount in common with the old-school underground comics of yore.

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