Hardcover, 168 pages
Published May 10, 2016 by Image Comics.
Set one hundred years in our future, WE STAND ON GUARD follows a heroic band of Canadian civilians turned freedom fighters who must defend their homeland from invasion by a technologically superior opponent... the United States of America. Collects WE STAND ON GUARD #1-6
probably Vaughan's least-approachable work for a new reader, there's still a great interplay of themes and characters, and while the abbreviated run make it punchy, but also feels like it could have done with a little more room to breath.
I feel like this should be the start of a much larger series, and the main reason that this is not a 5 star review is that the ending of the series, while excellent, feels a little too rushed and abrupt. Otherwise I think that the themes and issues addressed are well handled, and the characters are interesting and better developed than one might expect for such a short narrative.
