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was initially published as a monthly five-issue comic book limited series by Dark Horse Comics, the first issue published in May 1998. Obviously, it is easier to tell when a book from 10 years ago was released, since there was internet coverage of books back then. Miller and O'Neil seemed to flourish in the gritty world of street crime so tackling a Spider/Punisher fight was a natural choice. In retrospect, using the comic form to tell the story of Leonidas and his 300 Spartan's stand against Xerxes and his Persian hordes is an absolutely brilliant idea, but for the life of me I do not know how Miller managed to pitch this to the corporate suits and get them to put it out in an oversized hardcover edition to boot. Learning of the Persian maneuvers the Greeks realize their position is indefensible, but the Spartans and a few others refuse to retreat.

While it featured five self-contained tales, the story 'Wanted: Santa Claus – Dead or Alive', written by Denny O'Neil and penciled by Miller was the standout. the graphic novel holds the manliness record for the densest number spears, arrows, shields, red capes and abs in graphic literature. The dialogue is delivered with too much stern solemness, so hilarious lines such as 'Only the ha--rd' or 'Tonight we dine in Hell!Sparta's described as having this nightmarish culture where children are left out to die of exposure, men are ritually abused by each other to demonstrate toughness, the disabled are rejected in spite of their potential skills because they fail to fit into the military system, and international law is null and void (this is madness! Lots of crazy warfare scenes (more severed limbs and appendages than you can throw a javelin at) along with terse but well-written dialogue = a tour-de-force from the talented Mr.

Something that always struck me about the movie is how Snyder changed the bit where the Persian messenger says, “This is madness,” and Leonidas replies, “This is Sparta,” from a quiet one-liner to a thing that Leonidas just screams.He didn’t just try to make his Sin City look like a graphic novel: he tried to replicate the private experience of reading one too, slowly turned page after slowly turned page. Frank Miller's epic retelling of history's supreme moment of battlefield valor is finally collected in a glorious hardcover volume in its intended format -- each two-page spread from the original comics is presented as a single undivided page. For its part, Sin City features scads of violence, much of which would ordinarily be considered unacceptable in a mainstream film.