Published by Defiant Comics (and now in comic fodder bins)

Charlemagne standing for Charles the Great.

If you see the first issue in a bin, PICK THIS UP! It is one of the best origins and first issues I’ve read in a long time. It is that good!

I thought a book like this from the name, or look would not hold my interest. I could not be more wrong.

Meet Charles Smith, just a kid from middle America on a quest to find his brother in Vietnam back in the ’70’s.

What emerges by issues end is a Noble Hero.

What strikes me even more then the solid writing. By one D.G. Chichester, whose Marvel work didn’t surprise me, but here he shined.

Was the art by Adam Pollina, his art was fantastic back then. I did not know he could be this good.

Which is a shame cause I was used to seeing his art, that he drew later in X-force and I did not like it. His X-force style was all 90’s muscles, and weird proportions.

So ironic that his earlier work was so much better. None of the crazy proportions. Just telling a straight story. Maybe it was the Jim Shooter factor of getting his creative crew to just tell the story, and not rely on being overly fancy that worked in good favor here.

Charlemagne lasted only 5 issues. 1 to 5 with a 0 issue in Hero Illustrated magazine number 9.

If you see an issue, give it a try. Especially the first issue.