Subcultural Greece and Rome 2: Comics

• Greece in SF vs. Greece in comics.
• ‘For Mature Readers’: pressures of the marketplace?

Classical ‘Pantheons’

Neil Gaiman’s ‘Endless’, The Sandman (DC/Vertigo):

• Morpheus/Orpheus: dreams and storytellers.
• The Kindly Ones: Aeschylus again.

Warren Ellis’ and Mark Millar’s The Authority (WildStorm):

• Apollo and the Midnighter: ‘slash’ Superman/Batman?

Eric Shanower’s multiple-Eisner-winning Age of Bronze: (Hungry Tiger Press).

• #41 (August 2002): Achilles and Patroclus.

Greek mythology in Manga

Masamune Shirow’s Appleseed (Eclipse):

• A new Olympus (or Atlantis?).
• Briareos Hecatonchires.
• The Gaea Plan: ancient and modern.

Heading film off at the pass?

Frank Miller, 300 (Dark Horse Comics):

• Leonidas as ‘Dark Knight’.
• Spartans as ‘L-Men’; homophobic libertarianism.