The Trojan War (Marvel Illustrated)

To be fair, I've only read issues 2 and 3 of this book, so I suppose I'm not sure. I was pleased with it in the beginning, thinking that it was nice to get some flesh to the scenes starting off the war, and I'm particularly familiar with Agamemnon's involvement so I liked to see that dramatized. But then, suddenly, nine years of the war went by. Oh! Well that was easy! Goodbye, war! I did not realize that you were all going to fit inside this 5-issue series! And mainly into two issues of it!The pace was pretty bad in itself, but I also lost patience with the writing style -- overly indulgent in the old-timey language, I think. I, son of blah, will join with blahh, for mine is a blah blahh. It makes all the exposition sound almost show more parodic. But I think if the plotting was more sensible, that would be ok. Style can be tempered.However, the panel where Artemis carries up the spirit of Iphigenia was AWESOME and I said "ooooooooh COOL" out loud, so that gets a star. And almost any retelling, to me, is a good thing. It gives us the chance to practice the story in pieces, until it's perfect. I might look into Thomas's Iliad. show less

A retelling of the trojan war