Darren Cullen is an artist living and working in East London. His first, self-published comic is “an absurd and potentially offensive satire on military recruitment and the false promises that come with life (and death) in the army.”
The comic is printed on a single sheet of paper featuring a 1.48 metre Bayeux tapestry style recreation of the Iraq war. His 'deluxe edition' contains several additional pull out pieces of work, including army related flyer adverts, A3 "Action Man Battlefield Casualties" poster, a 16 page 'Make Stuff Dead' mini-comic, postcards and stickers.

Cullen uses black humour to great effect and has created a biting satire of the modern army. He uses word play to ‘subvertise’ their advertising slogans, for example the Army’s now famous strapline ‘Be the Best’ becomes ‘Be the Meat’ and the Royal Air Force is given the new line ‘Die in the Sky’. The Bayeaux tapestry is redrawn to show the death and destruction associated with Britain’s military involvement oversees including torture, bombings and displacement and an advertisement promotes a chat line for ‘real soldiers wives’. His lively illustrations and witty use of language are unapologetically controversial, yet Cullen’s comic provides a counter voice to the British Government and Armed Forces concerted efforts to boost their reputation and numbers in the wake of the unpopular wars in Afghanistan and Iraq in the early part of the Twentieth Century.