A review by nerfherder86
Mwd: Hell Is Coming Home by Brian David Johnson, Jan Egleson

3.0

I read an advance copy of this graphic novel, so the art was not all in full finished form; the drawings were still a little rough. It was pretty good though; it's about what happens when a female soldier returns home from Iraq, suffering from a difficult adjustment to civilian life. She was a dog handler (hence the title: Military Working Dog) and I picked it up thinking it would have a lot more to do with the doghandling than it really did, so that was a little disappointing to me. But it gives a very accurate look at veterans' lives, with violent flashbacks, drinking problems, temper issues. It's really a sad story for the most part, because the military dog saves her life but sacrifices his own :-( and although she gets a new dog as a civilian, there's no fairy tale happy ending, she still has lots of issues to work through. Has adult situations and language, so I'd recommend it for older YA and adult readers.