Astiberri · 2020
The Iliad It is a book about war and war is what you are going to find in the new artifact by Javier Olivares and Santiago García, the comic ideologues Las Meninas which won the National Comic Award in 2015. The paradox is that the battle images are drawn in a big way with great prominence, almost like autonomous illustrations that function outside of the narrative, but we are facing an anti-war story of all, all. War is not beautiful or noble as Homer portrayed it., It does not produce heroes but victims of horror, This is the premise from which the authors start. First they put us in context: Achilles and Ulysses had been besieging the gates of Troy for ten years at the head of the collation of Achaean armies when Agamemnon, alliance leader, unleashes the anger of Achilles by taking his slave Brideisa and triggers the well-known events. From here, prepare for him giro plot. Olivares and Sánchez constantly play with duality (man-woman, war-peace, present-future, death-glory), and using the use of color, some dose of humor, stylized figures, Impossible perspectives and jumps in time unapologetically disrupt a masterpiece of European history to portray a continent born of anger that knows no mercy.. S.M.
