The armies of Persia - a vast horde greater than any the world has ever known -- are poised to crush Greece, an island of reason and freedom in a sea of madness and tyranny. Having said that, the book is an important part of Miller’s bibliography, up there with the likes of Ronin.

After working on the two Robocop movies, I really thought that was it for me in the business of film. Even harder to imagine, than that it once was like that, is the fact that there are still cultures out there that keep living these standards by uniting theistic despotism with chauvinistic misogyny as an official and appropriate governmental form. If you think about it, when you’re taking in a vista, if you’re looking at new territory or enjoying a view, your eyes move from side to side, not up and down. Here is the guide, though, for the cover dates of books so that you can make suggestions for books that actually came out in the correct month.The end result is a highly stylized, gripping, fun, and compelling version of this tale - redesigned and told through the mind's eye of one of today's undeniable leaders in the field of graphic story telling. As much as 100 Bullets is a cornerstone of the modern crime comic, it did not spring fully formed into the world. Miller's final major story in this period was in Batman issues 404–407 in 1987, another collaboration with Mazzucchelli.

Neither the seventy-million dollars that Zack Snyder’s adaptation of 300 made on its opening weekend nor the more than two hundred million dollars it has grossed in the United States alone as of this writing can be attributed primarily to the readers of Frank Miller’s original graphic novel.And Alexander is a wonderful figure — he was a Macedonian Greek who did conquer the world, did conquer Persia and all that, but became quite Persian himself in the end. Produced by Frank Miller and illustrated by Bill Sienkiewicz, Elektra: Assassin was an eight-issue limited series. Once the religious prohibition was lifted, the Spartan troops covered the 220 kilometers (140 mi) to Athens in a quick three days and arrived only one day after the battle had taken place. When the series was gathered into hardcover form, the individual pages were twice as wide as a normal comic.