Yay! Comics to feed my current mini-obsession with Achilles and Patroclus and the Trojan war, etc. etc. As you may know, all the gods have been taken out of this retelling, leaving something more historical-fictiony seeming. BUT DID ANY OF IT ACTUALLY REALLY HAPPEN?

i dunno, maybe some of it, a little?

Anyway, I am so grateful to learn a little bit about this era and the epic Trojan war in such an easy-to-digest form. Yeah, Shanower removed the gods but the drama (OMG, such drama! drama I don't think even think a modern TV soap would touch... hmm... except maybe Game of Thrones) still remains. I was reading this thinking, OMG, this should be a TV show, like, right now. I like the art, as well, though I could not tell many of the characters apart because their faces and clothes look the same, which well... if you are trying for realistic historical accuracy might be a little hard to work around, admittedly.