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       300 - Frank Miller
   DIR By: Chip
       Date: June 24, 2011, 3:10 pm
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       [CENTER]300 (1998)
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       Written and Drawn by Frank Miller
       Colors by Lynn Varley
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       I'm a huge fan of Frank Miller as an artist and as a writer. But
       not everything he does is gold like most people will have you
       believe. 300 isn't perfect by any stretch and to me isn't one of
       my favorites from Miller. It's the story of how 300 Spartans
       withstood a Persian army of thousands upon thousands at the
       Battle of Thermopylae. I won't delve into the historical
       inaccuracy of the comic and will focus on the art and writing
       instead.
       I love the artwork, both Millers drawings and Lynn Varley's
       colors are phenomenal. But for me, I think the book is average
       at best because the story is so much bigger than what we get in
       the pages of a comic. Five issues is far too little to tell a
       story of this magnitude and it's why, to me anyway, it feels
       condensed and rushed. As a reader, I feel cheated because I know
       there is so much more to the story.
       I know I am probably in the minority here and will probably get
       toasted for not holding this book up to a lofty high standard
       that most other people have a tendency to do. Good for you
       people. Just not one of Miller's best in my eyes. I think that
       at the end of the day, I just don't care about any of the
       characters within the story. There is no emotional connection
       that the reader gets to connect with like say, Marv from Sin
       City. Because 300 whizzes by so fast, it leaves very little time
       to build up a genuine rapport with the lead character as well as
       the secondary ones too. Without that bond, there is no sense of
       urgency that one feels when we finally get to the big showdown
       at the end.
       This is a pick 'em book. Pick it up at your own discretion. If I
       were you, I'd go to the Library first and check it out before
       laying down your hard earned cash.
       Rating: 3 Stars out of 5
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