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In what is likely a suicide mission, they and their allies plan to stop King Xerxes' invasion of Greece at the narrow cliffs of the "Hot Gates" ( Thermopylae). The costume designs are symbolic rather than historic, and each heavy cape and bronze sword is used to full effect.

The artist gets to cut loose here on lots of action sequences and that's I suppose what will sell this book.It makes for an easy sell, because the stories come previsualized: An executive can “see” what the film will look like by looking at the original’s pages. But it makes a great pair for crazy dictatorships, because one has a whole theistic military complex with a gigantic bureaucracy, controlling any aspect of life.

Manohla Dargis argued as much in her mixed review of Sin City in the New York Times, when she noted that “in an effort to make a faithful adaptation, Mr.

This book (in my opinion) was instrumental in opening the door for GN of historical fiction; Frank Miller has given us yet another work of lasting importance. The horizontal reason is very practical: These were all decided by land battles, and land battles are essentially a horizontal activity. I loved the movie adaptation of this (I even liked the sequel), and now that I finally read the graphic novel, I can safely say that I loved the graphic novel as well.