Disagreeing with what he saw as censorship, Miller refused to do any further work for DC, [48] and he took his future projects to the independent publisher Dark Horse Comics. Miller’s book, while a cult item among comic aficionados, was never much of a crossover success, but even for best sellers, the number of viewers for a hit adaptation is far greater than the number of readers. Though I'm a Frank Miller fan, back in 2006 I somehow hadn't heard of his book "300" so I went to see Zack Snyder's film first - and it completely blew me away. In 1985, DC Comics named Miller as one of the honorees in the company's 50th-anniversary publication Fifty Who Made DC Great. La película es tan fiel que me parece que todos los diálogos que salen en le comic lo dicen en la película.

The idea is to defend a stronghold which prevents them being overwhelmed by the sheer number of the Great Persian army led by Xerxes. Leonidas decides to defy Xerxes and has the messenger killed, with the man telling him that this behavior is madness, to which Leonidas replies, "No, this is Sparta. And one wonders what the media’s response will be to Snyder’s adaptation of Watchmen, which features a catastrophic attack on New York City.but also making the young soldier carry his unconscious superior on his back for the rest of the march. Inspired by The 300 Spartans, a movie which Miller encountered as a young boy, depicts the King Leonidas of Sparta take a group of 300 soldiers to make their last stand in a suicidal battle at “The Hot Gates”, the narrow coastal passage of Thermopylae.

This book is excellent if you need something to prop your computer up on if you're using it in bed and don't want the fan to get smothered by blankets. Generally speaking, the traditional amount of time between the cover date and the release date of a comic book throughout most of comic history has been two months (it was three months at times, but not during the times we're discussing here). It is impossible to know for certain whether this change in policy regarding the Carneia was based in shame about missing Marathon (as Brin suggests) or merely marked a reinterpretation of the military threat posed by the invading Persians. Give Me Liberty was followed by sequel miniseries and specials expanding on the story of protagonist Martha Washington, an African-American woman in modern and near-future North America, all of which were written by Miller and drawn by Gibbons. The reason for that is probably because every single bit of the graphic novel was in a movie, but the movie just expanded the story more.The creators of these adaptations, it seems, have managed to get away with murder, in a Hollywood increasingly wary of offending others’ sensibilities. Three hundred kick-ass Spartan warriors stand against hordes of Persian invaders under the command of King Leonidas. When I first showed up in New York, I showed up with a bunch of comics, a bunch of samples, of guys in trench coats and old cars and such. Telling the story of the resurrection of Elektra from the dead and Daredevil's quest to find her, as well as showing Miller's will to experiment with new story-telling techniques.

But as soon as a title came along, when [ Daredevil signature artist] Gene Colan left Daredevil, I realized it was my secret in to do crime comics with a superhero in them. The armies of Persia - a vast horde greater than any the world has ever known -- are poised to crush Greece, an island of reason and freedom in a sea of madness and tyranny.

As of November 2023, FMP was focusing its efforts on the Ronin sequel and Pandora, a fantasy adventure series produced together with The Kubert School that Miller described as "look[ing] like a children's book, but it's also a dark fairytale". It’s an amazing modern re-telling of an epic story that has endured the ages and inspired us for thousands of years. In 2014, a sequel, 300: Rise of an Empire, was made, which is based on Frank Miller's mini-series Xerxes.