The Forever War (comics)

The Forever War
Cover of Volume I.
Publication information
Publisher	Dupuis (Belgium) NBM Publishing (USA)
Title(s) Volume 1: Private Mandella Volume 2: Lieutenant Mandella Volume 3: Major Mandella
Formats	Original material for the series has been published as a set of graphic novels.
Original language	Dutch
Genre	Military science fiction
Publication date	1988
Number of issues	3
Creative team
Writer(s)	Joe Haldeman
Artist(s)	Marvano
Colourist(s)	Bruno Marchand
Reprints
The series has been reprinted, at least in part, in English, French, German, Polish, and Spanish.
Collected editions
Volume 1	ISBN 1-56163-004-7
Volume 2	ISBN 1-56163-025-X
Volume 3	ISBN 1-56163-045-4
French omnibus	ISBN 2-8001-2640-X

The Forever War is a 1988 Belgian science fiction graphic novel trilogy drawn by Marvano and closely based on the award-winning The Forever War novel by Joe Haldeman, who has noted that he "supplied all of the dialogue and scripted [the comic] like a movie".^[1]

Drawn in the ligne claire style and originally published in Dutch as De Eeuwige Oorlog, it tells the story of William Mandella, an elite soldier fighting for Earth in a centuries-long interstellar war against the 'Taurans'. The series focuses mainly on the dehumanising effects of war and its attendant bureaucracy.