Overall Critical And Personal Comments

             

Overall Critical and Personal Comments

By Mehryar Zahed

              The graphic novel 300 by Frank Miller is defiantly one of my favourite graphic novels of all time. The way it’s presented is definitely unique and since it’s based on history the fact that the author was able to make it interesting was defiantly a good thing. There were many ups and downs to this book which i will explain in this journal entry.

                First I would like to mention that the way the graphic novel was written was very good. It was easy to read and understand, there were not big words to throw you off and all the characters that spoke made sense when they were speaking. You didn’t have to think over what he characters had said. It was easily understandable. The only negative about the writing I would say is some of what they wrote was a little bit too much .They tried to cram allot into one speech bubble at times. It was a little bit much to take in but still easy to understand. 

                   Secondly the illustration was amazing it was drawn so descriptively. One of my favourite scenes was when one of the warriors was killed and an arrow was shown going though his body making his body to stand up straight. It was really graphic and detailed. Every picture told a story. You didn’t even need the words, just by looking at the pictures you could tell what that section was about.

                 Thirdly the only thing that I personally didn’t like was how the Persians were portrayed in this story. Even though this was based on a true event, not everything was true and realistic. It made Persians look like barbarians, as reading it I felt like Frank Miller had some anger within him towards and just let it all out on this graphic novel. But then again it’s just a story and any author just wants to make their product sell, so it’s nothing personal. In the end it was still a great read other then the Persians being animals i loved the graphic novel.

                In my conclusion I would recommend this book to anyone who is interested in graphic novels. It’s a easy read and it’s great for people who are new to graphic novels. It covers everything a graphic novel should have.