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Written and illustrated by comics luminary and legend, Frank Miller (Sin City, The Dark Knight, 300), and colored by Alex Sinclair (Batman: The Dark Knight III: The Master Race), this companion to Miller's epic masterpiece, 300, brings the historical story of Xerxes to the graphic novel audience with grit and visual style!

Xerxes: The Fall of the House of Darius and the Rise of… Xerxes: The Fall of the House of Darius and the Rise of…

So, buying the 300 graphic novel by Frank Miller is the way to go to satiate my desire for more Spartan action. And man I am not disappointed. 300 has mindless fun and glorious deaths. The artwork is the best I have seen from Frank Miller.The ongoing Greek rebellion against Persian tyranny reaches a turning point after the destruction of the city of Sardis and the later battle of Marathon: on a military campaign to vanquish the city of Athens and silence the Greeks once and for all, Xerxes, Persian Prince, watches as his father, King Darius, falls in battle . . . The mantle of king is passed and while his newly-inherited fleet retreats toward home, Xerxes' hatred is cemented toward Athens--and his incentive to build the Persian empire is fueled. Xerxes becomes the king of all countries--the king of Persia, ruler of Zion, and Pharoah of Egypt--and his empire is unlike any the world has ever seen, until . . . The mantle is again passed, the god king dies and Darius III continues as the king of all. But then, from the west, a tiger force strikes in Asia Minor and is on a course for collision with Persian forces. This will be the beginning of the end for Persia and the launch of Alexander the Great's rise to power! The Spartans were not as 'good' as the movie portrays them to be. Greeks, including the Spartans, conquered neighboring areas to acquire more land and to build their slave labor force. Many of the Greek soldiers, who fought with the Spartan elite at the Battle of Thermopylae, were forced to fight because they were slaves. Frank Miller, author of the graphic novel 300, talked about the nature of the Spartans in an interview, "The Spartans were a paradoxical people. They were the biggest slave owners in Greece. But at the same time, Spartan women had an unusual level of rights. It's a paradox that they were a bunch of people who in many ways were fascist, but they were the bulwark against the fall of democracy. ... I didn't want to render Sparta in overly accurate terms, because ultimately I do want you to root for the Spartans. I couldn't show them being quite as cruel as they were. I made them as cruel as I thought a modern audience could stand." Families can talk about the Spartans' upbringing and values. Why are 7-year-olds forced to fight each other -- and adults? The last one is nowadays pure satire, because there is nothing as ridiculous as stereotypies. But in ancient times, archaic warrior cultures were the way to go without any room for eco social patriarchal structures. This could be seen as a statement hidden deep in the seas of blood, that No. A Spartan boy's right of passage was not to kill a wolf, it was to sneak out and murder a slave (Helot). If you were discovered, then you would be punished severely, not for taking the life of another human being, but rather for getting caught. Murdering a slave was meant to train you in the art of evasion.

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Writer David Brin has also criticized 300 as being historically inaccurate, with particular reference to the bravery and efficacy of the non-Spartan Greeks:Fun and exciting. A worthwhile story to be told, though the omission of the Thespians and other abuses of artistic license mark the fault of Miller's sensationalism. Like the four-color comics before him, Miller takes archetypes and symbols and drives them full throttle to the epic, gun-blazing climax. Unfortunately, character and emotion suffer. This is not quite the liability that it could have been, as the Epic tradition is often purposefully guilty of the same and 300 fits into this tradition (or the modern swords & sandals permutation). Cast: Gerard Butler, Lena Headey, David Wenham, Dominic West, Vincent Regan, Michael Fassbender, Tom Wisdom, Andrew Pleavin, Andrew Tiernan, Rodrigo Santoro, Giovani Cimmino, Stephen McHattie, Peter Mensah, Tyler Neitzel, Eli Snyder, Robert Maillet Jump to Sections: Only for about twenty years now has the creative reputation of Frank Miller been a shambles. Even as Hollywood fell in love with him, comic book fans grew to despise him. Until the recent launch of his own imprint, Miller’s last work looked like it would be Xerxes, a sequel to 300. Although it’s more of a sketch than a story (I haven’t read 300 so have no basis for comparison other than the movie), it’s more typically glorious artwork from Miller and more exploration of the deeds of towering men.

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Los colores muy buenos y si es cierto que al principio los espartanos parecían de raza negra luego la cosa mejoró y sí parecían espartanos. La película es tan fiel que me parece que todos los diálogos que salen en le comic lo dicen en la película.As so often, in bloody fandom wars, there are so many, diverse, and stupid opinions that it´s hard to hit the main underlying themes. Or let´s say, this one is just for the fun, violence, and war, so one shouldn´t see too much in it. For instance a What's next? A letter claiming that, since the Spartans owned slaves and beat their young, I do the same? 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. As always, the less dramatic, but often more realistic reasons for wars, economic ones, aren´t in the game. They simply aren´t as thrilling as god emperors, a typical male characteristic often accompanied by

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Yes. The Spartans were much more focused on war and preparing for it. This is emphasized in the movie 300 when King Leonidas (Gerard Butler) asks several Arcadian soldiers to state their professions. Leonidas then turns to his own Spartan soldiers and asks them, "What is your profession men?" They reply with a loud warrior cry, indicating that they are soldiers by trade. In the original script for 300, the line “This is Sparta!” wasn’t supposed to be yelled. In the comic book, it’s delivered in a stern but calm manner. Gerard Butler tried a few takes in which he delivered the line this way, but it didn’t have much of an impact. Literally stumbling across a copy of "Xerxes" at my local bookstore, I couldn't believe that I had missed what was hyped as Miller's sequel to "300." That graphic novel was too fantastic to qualify as history, but was too grounded in the legend and lore of the famous Spartan-Persian battle to be ignored. Here was Miller's take to tell the story from the Persian side . . . a wonderful opportunity to see the world of the Persian god-king whose ambition exceeded his grasp. is a historically inspired 1998 comic book limited series written and illustrated by Frank Miller with painted colors by Lynn Varley.Set in 480 BC, Frank Miller's 300 retells the battle of Thermopylae: a battle that raged between 300 Spartans and allied forces against the full strength of Persian army. Out of the 1,523 cuts featured in 300, more than 1,300 of its shots contain some elements of visual effects. All in all, 300 contains a grand total of 8,631 VFX elements. The crew decided to use blue screens a lot more than green screens, utilizing blue screens for 90% of shooting and green screens for just 10%. The other thing I noticed was how bad the lettering is. I guess Miller did it himself because no one else is credited. Lettering is something you don't really notice unless it's awful and it really stands out here. At lest Alex Sinclair's colors make Miller's cash grab look good. Miller must have really needed the money to release this turd of a comic. Don't go here for history. the Spartans were a militaristic austere culture. But....there are big differences. The most glaring I suppose would be that the actual 300 (there were other Greeks there by the way the 300 were more like the special forces or Delta Force. They were the last along with a small force of Thespians to stand and fight when the rest had retreated),fought in armor. they wore groin and thigh protection, bronze breastplates and grieves. They didn't fight naked. it was a big reason that they could stand against the lighter armed and armored Persians for so long. Xerxes" opens promisingly enough, focusing on some Athenian soldiers and sailors taking on the Persians. There is some jarring playing with history as the playwright Aeschylus fights at the battle of Marathon - we know from his epitaph that Aeschylus claims to have fought there, but the surprise is that he's been trained by ninja. This opening tale is very similar to "300" in that we meet some key characters, gain insight into how they think and what their motivations are, and there is some solid history amongst the ultra-violence Miller loves to draw.