The reader can see and feel the harshness of both the Grecian landscape and Sparta's battle-worshipping culture, as Miller presents the complex historical moment facing the 300. Frank Miller’s epic retelling of history’s supreme moment of battlefield valor is finally collected in its intended formateach two-page spread from the. Form and content are ideally wedded: Miller's writing is stark, his drawings moody and dramatic, and intensified by Varley's grimly appropriate palette of earth and blood. The armies of Persiaa vast horde greater than any the world has ever knownare poised to crush Greece, an island of reason and freedom in a sea of madness and tyranny. The Persian King Xerxes is represented as majestically African, his body covered in a gaudy and bejeweled network of meticulously rendered chains and bracelets. His drawings of the bearded Leonidas are pensive and starkly imperial.

Miller clearly isn't as interested in being a historian as he is in telling a story, but his portrayal of the ancient world is compelling. A renowned comics artist and writer known for hard-boiled stories of almost operatic intensity and stylishly overwrought violence, Miller (Sin City) injects his own brand of graphic sensationalism into this ancient tale of national survival. Frank Millers epic retelling of historys supreme moment of battlefield valor is finally collected in its intended formateach two-page. Download for offline reading, highlight, bookmark or take notes while you read 300. The first full-color project by Frank Miller for Dark Horse. Read this book using Google Play Books app on your PC, android, iOS devices. This is clearly the inspiration behind Miller's attempt to place this epic tale in the context of a graphic novel. Only three hundred brave souls block its dash. While the battle bought the Greeks enough time to defeat the mighty Persians, it was more important for the metaphor it created: occasionally one has to lose to win. To no one's surprise, the Spartans were destroyed. The Battle of Thermopylae ranks as one of the ancient world's most important events, where Spartan King Leonidas and his 300-man bodyguard met the massive army of Emperor Xerxes of Persia, who intended to add Greece to his empire.

300 by Frank Miller