Our erstwhile hero does make a name for himself, though, at least among the flyers for whom he is Ivan the Terrible.
A few years later, in Korea, we see the same young man looking to make a name for himself as a flying ace, despite the fact that even as a flying ace he will not be known as a hero back home because Russia was not officially supposed to be in Korea – unlike many of the American flyers, however, who go on to be household names.
Opening in Stalingrad in 1946, a young boy – Yefgeni Mikhailovich Yeremin – is brought to an orphanage in the midst of a bombed out city and learns that he has to fight to make his way, eventually blinding a bully who was doing his utmost to swing a scholarship for himself.
Ascent is a graphic novel adaptation of a novel by Jed Mercurio first published in 2007 that works in a similar way to Mark Millar’s Superman: Red Son in that we’re being shown a version of a story we think we are familiar with (in this case, the space race) from a Russian perspective.
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