"Not since Eric Remarque's All Quiet on the Western Front has a novel--graphic or otherwise--been as powerful, stirring, unsettling, and thought-provoking... THE OTHER SIDE is nothing short of a true classic."
--Library Journal
"A stark, unfettered account of the horrors of war..."
--Publishers Weekly
"A stunner of a comic. In fact, few war stories in any medium blend such horror with such a poetic humanization of the enemy."
--Playboy.com
"Because the characters and their manias brought on by the war's atrocities are so compelling, the only bad part about THE OTHER SIDE is that it has to end."
--Washington Post
"Buy it!"
--G4's Attack of the Show
"A Must Have."
--IGN
"With the war in Iraq escalating and the specter of other wars looming on the horizon, we may be seeing more war comics—and war movies and war books, not to mention actual war footage—than we’d care for. If we’re lucky, a scant few might be as good as THE OTHER SIDE."
--The Wire
"First issues don't get much more gripping than the debut of the five-part mini THE OTHER SIDE... Writer Jason Aaron, a newcomer, has a gift for profanity and violent extremes—both physical and psychological—and Cameron Stewart's clean, expressive art has a terrifying war-is-hell immediacy... A-"
--The Onion
"... headed to a confrontation that promises to defy the genre and deliver a story that’s more than just another war tale. A-"
--Variety
"This book isn't trying to be important, it just is. One of the very best comics Vertigo has published since PREACHER.
Highest possible recommendation."
--Brian K. Vaughan, writer of PRIDE OF BAGHDAD
"I've said it before but I'll say it again:
This is a fucking outstanding book...
This gets my Highest Personal Recommendation."
--Brian Wood, writer of DMZ and DEMO