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Frank Miller is one of the most frustrating comic book artists that one can watch the career of. There’s his classic stuff like The Dark Knight Returns and Sin City. And then there’s his work like All-star Batman and Robin (particularly issue #2, you know what I’m talking about if you’ve read it). So when I heard that he was going to do a prequel/follow-up to 300 what most crossed my mind was “Oh Lord, he’s going to attempt another The Dark Knight Strikes Again…”

Well, here’s our first look at Xerxes from, well, Xerxes…

Here’s the official title description from Dark Horse Comics:

Xerxes rose to power in fifth-century-BC Persia and became known as ‘The King of Kings,’ eventually raising and leading a massive army intent on ruthlessly destroying the hated Greeks who killed his father. Xerxes seeks nothing less than to become a god himself

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300 easily ties along with Transformers as my favorite movie so far of 2007. I’ve seen it twice now (click here for my thoughts when I first caught it) and it’s sort of taking hold with me just as The Matrix did some years ago. So I’ve been looking forward to the release of 300 on DVD this week. It also came out on both HD-DVD and Blu-ray but since I’m still waiting to see which way the market tilts before investing in a player for either of those formats, I’m still using standard DVD. Besides, we’ve got a nifty lil’ “upscaling” DVD player that does a great job outputting regular DVD to our high-def set, and we’re probably going to be more than happy with that for awhile to come. As I’ve said before, when it comes to new technology I’m very much like the Amish: I ...

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So Saturday night I saw 300 again, this time in Raleigh with my friend Chad. And I think that of all the movies that I have seen so far this year, 300 is easily my favorite, and the best overall in my opinion. I just found out that it’s coming out on DVD next month, too!

If you haven’t seen 300 yet, remember how riled-up a lot of us got when Braveheart came out? 300 is that kind of blood-stirring good. This is exactly the kind of story we need for the time we live in. And YouTube user BoruJudasDedrich feels the same way, too…

Here’s the video that he put together, comparing what’s going on regarding presidential candidate Ron Paul with Leonidas and the Spartans in 300. I found myself thinking much the same on Saturday night when we were watching this… but I really doubt that ...

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Dad and I went to see 300 at the Carousel Grande in Greensboro this afternoon. I’ve been wanting to catch this ever since it came out a few weeks ago. It’s adapted from Frank Miller’s graphic novel 300, which is about the Battle of Thermopylae that took place in 480 B.C. between the Spartans and the invading Persians. Gerard Butler plays King Leonidas of the Spartans and that’s Rodrigo Santoro – who has been playing Paulo on Lost and I had no idea that it was him in this role – as Xerxes.

300 is brutal! It may be the most vicious movie that I’ve ever seen. It’s definitely the most violent historical-based film that I’ve watched… and I’ve seen plenty. The thing that keeps standing out in my mind is Xerxes’ army: if all you know about the Greco-Persian Wars is from watching 300, then you ...

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It’s probably gonna be the biggest geek story of the week and Ain’t It Cool News is verifying it this morning: 1 minute and 52 seconds into this extended trailer for 300, the following image appears VERY briefly (this pic is from a cap I took and it took a bit to nail it down)…

After all these years of saying it couldn’t be done… and even that it shouldn’t be done…

I guess nothing is impossible: there really is going to be a Watchmen movie. There’s the proof staring right back at us: Rorschach. In the flesh. Looking exactly as he does in the graphic novel. Not only that but click-on this high-res still (which also came from Ain’t It Cool News)…

Rorschach is holding the Comedian’s blood-stained smiley-face button, just as he’s depicted doing in the first few pages of Watchmen.

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