Critical Miss: #41
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Grey Carter said:Spot on, Troy was actually in good ol' Turkey. It's imperfect narative.ZephrC said:
*coughs*
Also I actually quite like the new Dante. I never liked the old one as he didn't look like a badass as much as he looked like a raging douchebag. The new Dante looks like a relatable human being. A human being with a burning desire.
A burning desire for crack.
Yeah, but the whole Douchebag Vibe was his thing and strangely enought made him likable. Plus he proved he was a badass by constantly letting everyone take a crack at killing him then brushing it off like it was nothing.
Either way this new Crackhead better have some good gameplay or its the pits for Ninja Theory.
One more note....Doesn't the new Dante kinda look like the main character, Wex Major? from the PSone game, Wild 9?
Which was colonized by the Greeks. Just sayin'.Grey Carter said:
In fact, Turkey was pretty much part of Greece until the fall of the Byzantine Empire, which was basically a Greek empire and not Roman even though it was technically the East Roman Empire, they spoke Greek and were Orthodox.
Not during that time. Asia Minor was colonized by Greeks after the time of the Trojan War and after the Trojan War there weren't any Trojans in that part of the world if you follow the stories. Not that they are really all that historical anyway but that is kinda beside the point.HK_01 said:
As stated earlier, the historical Trojans were likely related to the Hittites or some other Indo-European branch from the east of the Bosporus. The similarities in gods and the like were just anachronisms inserted by Homer and other storytellers as the legend evolved over 400 years of oral tradition.
Even afterwards, you cannot really speak of Turkey being Greek, mostly just the western and southern coasts. The central and northern areas had combinations of Persian, Greek, Armenian, Kappadocian, and even Gaulic cultures (plus a few more that are slipping my mind at the moment). The Hellenization of these areas was slower than most of the other former holdings of Alexander.
Also, hydra bladder is awesome. Totally worth it even if the Greek/Trojan thing bugged me as a Classics major.
I totally got the Trojan joke. Almost entirely because my first name is "Troy", but nonetheless, I still got it.
...I was going to make a Dante Alighieri joke.Delock said:
You just stole my only source of joy. I hope you go to your room and think about it very hard.
Somehow this comic has just managed to get worse over time. This is so bad, and the trojan sub text pun was so embarrassing that I have to listen to don't fear the reaper just to get cooled down.. yes I so mad.
Hmmm, and here I am still not knowing whether "New Dante" means Dante from Devil May Cry or Dante from Dante's Inferno. Maybe I'm just slow?
I must admit, I mistook Kratos' right arm for a pile of Hamburgers...
Good comic I suppose, been better though.
Good comic I suppose, been better though.
If you listen to don't fear the reaper to calm down you must be a frothing ball of rage. That song doesn't exactly scream soothing to me so your average mellow level has to be floating somewhere just under "moshpit".Feralbreed said: