VIETNAM JOURNAL, the comic, was introduced by Apple Comics in 1987. Written and drawn by Vietnam Veteran Don Lomax it was quickly acclaimed the most hard-hitting and brutally honest depiction of the Vietnam conflict in comics bar none. VIETNAM JOURNAL has progressed from a black and white comic, to graphic novel collections by Apple and IBooks, to a color strip in Gallery Magazine and, like the Vietnam War, it drags on, seemingly, with a life of it's own. Now a new incarnation; the web comic. The story follows Scott Neithammer, a freelance reporter the troops have nicknamed "Journal" with his obsession to report the war from the "grunt's" point of view and to hell with the consequences.
Don intends to continue the comic series free of charge to his loyal fans. New pages will be posted regularly for you to view or download. There will be no membership or registration fees. In other words, you may enjoy the VIETNAM JOURNAL CONTINUUM absolutely free of charge.
The following five pages are that Continuum. We will leave each group of five pages up for a period of time as traffic on this site dictates, then they will be replaced with five new pages on a regular basis. Unfortunately, due to space restrictions, the pages will not be archived.
Due to the CONTINUUM pages not being archived some fans, unfortunately, have come late to this website and I appologize if any of you have missed any of the previous pages. All is not lost, however. Last summer Gary Reed of TRANSFUZION publications and I signed to publish the entire VIETNAM JOURNAL saga, including its spinoffs, in Graphic Novel form.
Book #1 "Indian Country", Book #2 "The Iron Triangle", and Book #3 "From the Delta to Dak To" are available through your local comic retailer or through the TRANSFUZION website. The rest of the books will be coming out approx. every two months. Book #4 "MIA" will finish up the original 16 issue series of VIETNAM JOURNAL. Book #5 will collect the "Tet '68" series and Book #6 will feature the "Khe Sanh" siege. Book #7 will include the "Valley of Death" series, the majority of which has never been published other than on this website. Book #8 will collect the entire series of "Hamburger Hill" that originally appeared for 4 years in Cavalier Magazine, plus several additional stories including two stories from our current conflicts in Iraq and Afghanistan, also never before collected. Book #9 will be the series I am currently posting on this website, "Brain Dead Horror". After that we expect to release "High Shining Brass" and "Desert Storm Journal". By then who knows...Hopefully, if my health continues to be good, TRANSFUZION and I expect to continue to tell the stories of the grunts on the ground during the Vietnam Conflict...and tell it like it was for future generations. But, above all, thank you all for your loyalty and indulgence of an old Vet.
For more information go to the TRANSFUZION link below.
TRANSFUZION
UNDYING THANKS!
I have had an enormous amount of help, encouragement, and praise (much undeserved) over the years without which the continuation of VIETNAM JOURNAL would have been impossible. The list of individuals who were instrumental is long and varied including family members, my prescious wife, and influential people in the comic business. At the top of the list is Gary Reed at TRANSFUSION. Also, those in the military presently and those retired including Vietnam Veterans without whom this endeavor would have no reason to exist. Hopefully we can all learn from our mistakes. To the younger members of my readership to whom the Vietnam War is just a hiccup in their history books... George Bernard Shaw wrote; "We learn from history that we learn nothing from history." Personally I prefer Maya Angelou's more optimistic outlook; "History, dispite its wrenching pain, cannot be unlived, but if faced with courage need not be lived again."
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A very special thanks to John A. Sedlacik of Landing, N.J, U.S.Army retired, who has been in the past, and continues to be an inspiration and an never ending source of info on the war and the 173rd Airborne Brigade, The Sky Soldiers. AIRBORNE!!WARNING!
The following pages may contain explicit language and war violence. Not suitable for those under 18 years of age.