This is a faithful and worthy follow up of 300 that will more than appeal to fans of the original. This is a story that is very much in his wheelhouse. His quest for power along with examining how his leadership and tactics contrasts Plus, Miller is clearly having a ton of fun showing how Xerxes started It is a different approach to battle, but it is no lessĮfficient. The Athenian army favours variety with a force made up of individual who all excel Strength in their unbreakable unity and meticulous/ cohesive battle formations,

To the original series with Miller once again examining the efficiency of an Similarly, he is also handling inking which favours a heavier approach than when he is working with a different inker, but like Sin City and the original 300, this style is well suited for the storytelling on display in Xerxes and the more brutish characters that populate the story. Paired with his current colouring collaborator on his DC projects Alex Sinclair, Miller’s art has the heavy shadows and visceral splashes of red that are prevalent in his most recent work. The first obvious returning feature is the landscape format which once again emphasises the cinematic approach that had started to appear more often in Miller’s art at the time of the original series. Miller has an iconic style that has evolved over the years, but this series hearkens back to his work on the original 300 and to an extent Sin City. The first thing that must be talked about is the art. Miller’s return to comics in the past few years has seen him revisit some of his best-known works and Xerxescontinues that trend. This will be the beginning of the end for Persia and the launch of But then, from the west, a tigerįorce strikes in Asia Minor and is on a course for collision with Persianįorces. The world has ever seen, until… The mantle is again passed, the god king diesĪnd Darius III continues as the king of all. Of Persia, ruler of Zion, and Pharoah of Egypt – and his empire is unlike any Xerxes becomes the king of all countries – the king

Xerxes’ hatred is cemented toward Athens – and his incentive to build the Of king is passed and while his newly-inherited fleet retreats toward home, Persian Prince, watches as his father, King Darius, falls in battle… The mantle Vanquish the city of Athens and silence the Greeks once and for all, Xerxes, Frank Miller returns to the world of 300 with Xerxes, the prequel series that formed the basis for the 2014 film sequel 300: Rise of an Empire and focuses on the Spartan’s main enemy in the original story – King Xerxes.Īgainst Persian tyranny reaches a turning point after the destruction of theĬity of Sardis and the later battle of Marathon: on a military campaign to

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