The Sad Punk
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Cool. I'll send it to you when I feel it is perfect. AKA tomorrow.
I don't think I have seen Vertigo comics at my local comic book stores. What do you recommend?
That comic sounds cool. If it is focused on identity than I bet there will be great characters. So it will be a historical peice sort of?
Alright, cool.
Vertigo published Preacher by Garth Ennis, which is far as I know the most popular adult comic ever. It's good, but I think very much overrated. I don't think Ennis is as good with dialogue as a lot of people think, a lot of the weirder parts of it seem forced, too. Still, it's a very good read. And it has an Irish vampire in it (No surprise, Ennis is from Belfast). I don't buy comics regularly, mainly due to money restrictions, but check out any Scalped at your comics store. Pretty sure they'll have them - should give you a good taste of what you can expect from the publisher, though I think it's far above the average.
I'm undecided with exactly how historical the piece will be. I want to make the appearances of the characters accurate, at least - but it's not like they'll be speaking Latin or anything. I don't think any historical persona - at least not famous ones - will be main characters, and it won't include any major battles from the time, just skirmishes that affect the characters (the Iberians were the first people to use guerrilla warfare). I was considering writing about Viratho, an ancient general from what is now Portugal - but I wanted to write my own story instead, and I didn't want to twist the truth too much (300 is an example here).