Congo War

War photographer Lynsey Addario’s memoir It’s What I Do is the story of how the relentless pursuit of truth, in virtually every major theater of war in the twenty-first century, has shaped her life. What she does, with clarity, beauty, and candor, is to document, often in their most extreme moments, the complex lives of others.

September 1914, news reaches the colony German Eastern Africa that its motherland is at war, so Reverend Samuel Sayer became a hostile foreigner; German imperial troops burn down his mission, driving him mad- shortly after his well-educated, snooty sister Rose Sayer buries him and leaves by the only available transport, the crummy river steamboat 'African Queen' of grumpy boorish compatriot Charlie Allnut……

Congo Bill, another Vertigo reboot of a golden-age artifact, with high-contrast artwork and Richard Corben covers.
"The jungle adventurer, the golden ape, and the strange power that links them return with a vengeance in a new VERTIGO miniseries that blends big guns, war action, black magic, and real-life historical events into a potent brew. A crack team of black ops travels deep into war-torn Africa on a mission so covert that only their team leader knows their objective…a horror surpassing their wildest imagination. The journey down river will test the limits of their skill and endurance, but for one team member, the key to survival is far more complex. For something else has followed him into the jungle. Something he cannot hope to escape"

'One of the mysteries I've long been fascinated by, and I am so grateful that Ravi Somaiya has cracked it open so brilliantly' David Grann, author of Killers of the Flower Moon