Xerxes is depicted as being extremely egocentric, and proclaims himself a "God-king". Xerxes eventually won this battle by having superior numbers in his army and due to the Greek traitor Ephialtes, who aided him by showing him and the Persians the existence of a small pass in the Hot Gates that allowed Xerxes to attack them from behind. He is based on the real king Xerxes I of Persia who sent his army to fight against 300 Spartans in the battle of Thermopylae in 480 BC. Xerxes I of Persia, also simply known as Xerxes, is the main antagonist of the 300 duology, serving as the main antagonist of the 2007 film 300, and the central antagonist of its 2014 sequel, 300: Rise of an Empire, both based on the graphic novel 300 by Frank Miller. Xerxes: The Fall of the House of Darius and the Rise of Alexander #1 will be released on April 4.Yours is a fascinating tribe, even now you're defiant, in the face of annihilation, in the presence of a god. Hopefully Miller will keep up the momentum, as Xerxes will reunite Miller with his Dark Knight III colorist Alex Sinclair. Miller is deep into the second act of his comic book career, with The Dark Knight III: The Master Race holding up better than most critics and even some fans feared. Twenty years later, Xerxes sounds like Batman v Superman, minus the capes, and way more death. 300 was like reading an army of Greek Batman clones, all with the same noir colors as Sin City. Published ten years after Miller won acclaim for his reinvention of Batman, the original 300 comic brought the Battle of Thermopylae to life with the same hyper-masculine energy that overwhelmed mainstream superhero comics in the ‘90s. Miller’s comic, and later the Zack Snyder movie, undoubtedly helped a few bored high school freshmen get through history class back in the day. This genre also never really went away, as the Snyder movie birthed so many popular memes of the MySpace era.
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Dark Horse Comicsģ00 ranks among a class of genre work that liberally reinterprets history for thrills, joining Netflix’s Marco Polo, Alan Moore’s League of Extraordinary Gentlemen, and the Spike series Deadliest Warrior. Miller was still in the process of writing this new comic when work started and finished Rise of an Empire.Ī preview of 'Xerxes,' from Dark Horse Comics. Xerxes will also have nothing to do with 2014’s 300: Rise of an Empire, the cinematic sequel to the first movie, which was only partially based on Miller’s idea for Xerxes. So the book’s title isn’t wrong, per se, it’s just playing LEGO with the facts behind it. Alexander also battled King Darius III, over whom he was victorious. Xerxes I died in 465 BC, while Alexander, who conquered a vast empire that stretched from Greece to northern India, lived a short 32 years from 356 to 323 BC. In reality, Xerxes I never waged a battle against Alexander the Great. The first issue will be released on April 4. Set after the Battle of Thermopylae in 480 BC, the five-issue Xerxes sees King Xerxes set out to conquer the known world until he crosses paths with the new kid on the war block, Alexander the Great. On Tuesday, comics publisher Dark Horse announced Xerxes, the long-awaited sequel to Miller’s 1998 stylish graphic novel 300 that served as the basis for the zeitgeist-seizing 2007 film from Zack Snyder.
This April, Miller returns to his mega-popular historical fanfic to tell the story of the Persian king Xerxes and his war against Alexander the Great, a fight that never happened in real life, because both men lived and died a century apart.
The sequel, Xerxes: The Fall of the House of Darius and the Rise of Alexander, is no different. No one reads Frank Miller’s 300 for an accurate history lesson on the Persian Wars.
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