"Cameron Stewart said the five-issue miniseries he's drawing called The Other Side is 'quite a departure' from the superhero stuff he'd been doing. The comic, which takes place within the Vietnam War, will be coming out in October from Vertigo.

'I've said before that I'm best known for a Batman spin-off and a comic about a scuba diver and a talking fish, so doing a war comic was something that I never really thought that I would do,' he laughed. 'But it's been a challenge and I'm enjoying it.'

He called the comic a war horror story. 'It's very, very intense. Very dark. Definitely R-rated,' he said. 'There are two main characters: one is an American solider; one is a North Vietnamese solider. And the story is told from both perspectives. We see the war from both sides. And their stories intersect and overlap.'

Stewart said he thinks readers of superhero stories should give it a chance. 'I think, genre aside, it's just a great story. I mean, I was won over by it. I would never really consider doing a war story, but then I read the script, and I knew immediately that I wanted to work on it,' he said. 'So yeah, I think anyone who enjoys a good story will like it.'"