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This is unlike any comic I can remember reading. It's basically a first-person monologue in comics form which was unsettling at first. But once I got used to it, I never thought about it again. The narrator, a 13th-century longbowman, walks us through the battle of Crécy, one of the first battles where longbowmen dominated over crossbows and calvary, and it's effects. The story, in typical Warren Ellis fashion, is unflinching, brutal, profane, but still Romantic. The art, by Raulo Caceres is lus
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This is a short work -- about the length of a prestige-format one-shot. But it's tremendously good and shockingly unorthodox for comics. In this short narrative, Ellis strips all the glory and Romanticism from history and war, without ever seeming bitter or unfair in doing so. This is excellent, important work.
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An archer's guide to war.
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