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Published: 2017-06-15 17:30:28 +0000 UTC; Views: 2286; Favourites: 59; Downloads: 0
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A panel from my comic. Bardas Phokas reminisces about Constantine the Great, whom the Byzantines considered the model of a good Monarch. It's funny how even ancient people reminisce about the ol' days. Even the Epic of Gilgamesh, the oldest written epic begins by doing just that...Regardless I am quite happy with the flashback and the disco-posing Lactantius. Not so much with Phokas' ugly mug and crooked mouth
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This is so great! Perfect composition and colouring! Well done!
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Ohh, but Constantine didn't create a new empire.
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True. It is the same Roman Empire of the Antiquity. But the title is cool and for some reason, people tend to refer to hom as such. Perhaps a convencion?
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Makes you wonder what they really did see that faithful day, dosen't it?
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Yeah... Some say that everyone saw something in the sky, while others say only Constantine saw it in a dream, while others say both. Some say it was a miracle, others a natural phenomenon, while again others say both. Whatever it was it defined history as we know it.
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According to some he only saw a particularly noticeable case of sunflare and that particular nature of the occasion did the rest others that it was a complete fabbrication and Constantine, ever crafty, simply saw in the rising star of Christianity a resource be could use to revitalize the empire and thus staged a miracle to have a reason incorporate it in the imperial civil cult
Maybe as you said more than one option could be real or even all of them...
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Half the fascination of history is legend, stories often can be as real as facts in how they influence the course of the human endeavor, from the daily life of peasants to the rule of emperors, and as time passes and the reckoning Is put to parchment and ballad can you really divide the man from the myth?
Certain men became living myths as they still walked the earth and from Caesar to Constantine and Charlemagne it would be unproper to completely cut off that mysticism from their figure as It would be as damaging as cutting off entire chapters from books, chapters which often they themselves put great effort in writing
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This looks epic! I love how in Phocas' re-telling Constantine is dressed in a sort of anachronistic manner! Great touch! Also, the sepia really makes it clear he is recounting/reminiscing about something.
Yup, the good old days; said people in every decade of every century...
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Your pages and art style are really stunning. Is this posted somewhere with text? I'm very interested in the story.
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Unfortunately I do not plan to release the whole thing online just yet, because I wish to publish it. I am finishing the current chapter and then I am off to a Publishing House here in Greece that has expressed some interest. I definitely want to have it published in English too though because interest has been expressed by quite a few English Speakers as well. A friend who has some experience on the matter, tells me that copyrights are separate for each language, so it might be possible. Alternatively I would have an ebook, pdf version going (at least in English), so as to not ignore potential readers outside Greece.
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That's fair. Good luck. It looks like a very compelling story. And the artwork is fantastic thus far.
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Constantine's pose is full of power here. Excellent composition!
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I really like Constantine's pose in this one! And the sepia wash works really well for the background!
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