Created on April 18, 2011 and written by ScottWilliams
Category: Comic Book Reviews

Rating: 3/5
Publisher Name: Campfire
Publisher Website: http://www.campfire.co.in/

Writer: Lewis Helfand
Pencils: Lalit Kumar Singh
Colors: Jayakrishnan K P
Number of Pages: 72
Price: .99
Color: Color
Safety Content Label: A – Appropriate for age 9 and up.

Publisher’s Blurb:
Fortune favours the bold…
They were an unstoppable force hired to take the crown from the King of Persia. They were a fearless army of Greek soldiers, and one hundred thousand men fighting as one. They were led by the finest and most courageous generals in all of Greece. They were being led to unimaginable wealth, but that was days ago.

Now their leaders are dead and their army has scattered. Now their numbers have fallen to ten thousand men and nothing remains but fear. Now they are men praying not for victory, but for the slim chance of living one more day.

Cut off by impassible terrain and pursued by an army of one million enemy soldiers; they must stand together to survive. To find their way home, one of their own must lead them. And to live one more day…
…they must fight.

Reviewer’s Comments:
400 B.C. tells the tale not just of a Greek Army, but the indomitable human spirit even in the face of adversity and overwhelming odds. This is a story that brings to life what every soldier must surely feel when the only thing driving their next step is the thought of home.

You won’t find underdogs defeating massive empires in the pages of 400 B.C. but what you will find is a realistic portrayal of what human interactions are like regardless of the time period in which they are set in.

Singh’s pencils bring Persia to life in the pages of the book and paint a land filled with blood, sweat and men who refuse to embrace death – the easier of the two routes to pick from.

If ancient stories of Persian wars and Greek tragedies are what you seek, you will find it here.

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