{"id":30615,"date":"2022-09-27T08:10:00","date_gmt":"2022-09-27T12:10:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/?p=30615"},"modified":"2022-09-24T15:58:04","modified_gmt":"2022-09-24T19:58:04","slug":"jaeger-written-and-illustrated-by-ibrahim-moustafa-z-view","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/?p=30615","title":{"rendered":"JAEGER Written and Illustrated by Ibrahim Moustafa \/ Z-View"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/stallonezone.com\/zone\/2022\/z092722zview_jaeger.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"556\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Jaeger is a 48 page graphic novel written and illustrated by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ibrahimmoustafa.com\/jaeger\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Ibrahim Moustafa<\/a>, with letters by Nate Peikos of BLAMBOT,\u00a0 Jaeger was first published as a web comic where it was nominated for an Eisner Award.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Idris Morel was a freedom fighter captured and tortured in a Nazi prisoner of war camp during World War II.\u00a0 Now Morel is a\u00a0 French-Algerian spy who tracks down and eliminates Nazi war criminals who have escaped justice.\u00a0 Nazis speak in hushed whispers of the silent avenger they call &#8220;Der Jaeger&#8221; (the Hunter).\u00a0 They live in fear that Der Jaeger will come for them.\u00a0 As his body count grows, Morel&#8217;s obsession with revenge pushes him to the brink&#8230; will he become what he fights?<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Ibrahim Moustafa has created what could have been a traditional World War II revenge tale and added twists to make it his own.\u00a0 Nazis are easy targets, but the ones in Moustafa&#8217;s tale aren&#8217;t one dimensional bad guys.\u00a0 I also like that Moustafa&#8217;s hero of the tale isn&#8217;t American or British.\u00a0 He&#8217;s put the World part of the War back into the mix.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">I really enjoyed Moustafa&#8217;s art.\u00a0 It isn&#8217;t over rendered and the colors that Moustafa uses enhance each page.\u00a0 The storytelling is straightforward with excellent use of inset panels to draw the reader&#8217;s eye to what&#8217;s most important.\u00a0 The graphic novel comes with a choice of three different cover artists:\u00a0 Dennis Calero, Phil Hester or Ibrahim Moustafa.\u00a0 The graphic novel also contains a five page bonus section with character studies, page and cover roughs and a Jaeger commission.\u00a0 I enjoyed Jaeger and could see additional tales of <em>The Hunter<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>Jaeger earns 4 of 5 stars.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/stallonezone.com\/zone\/2022\/z092722zview_jaeger2.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"859\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/stallonezone.com\/zone\/logo\/zview_b.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"100\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><img class=\"aligncenter\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jaeger is a 48 page graphic novel written and illustrated by Ibrahim Moustafa, with letters by Nate Peikos of BLAMBOT,\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":912,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[58,61,52,56,51,74],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-30615","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-art","category-authors","category-books","category-comics","category-crime","category-z-view"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30615","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/912"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=30615"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30615\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":30618,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30615\/revisions\/30618"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=30615"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=30615"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=30615"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}