02-21-2014, 12:59 PM
Quote: Germany is usually regarded as a developing country when it comes to comics
By Frenchmen maybe but believe me- situation in Germany is like paradise if compared with small Czech market.Here comic medium was even directly prohibited or at least heavily restricted for decades as communist regime saw it too much American...which was of course nonsense because comic have very strong and long tradition in Europe especially in FrancoBelgian lands.
I know all abowe mentioned series and Eagles of Rome is my favorit.I think Marini showed himself to not be only great artist but also-despite expectation-very good screenwriter and storyteller.
Murena is also great but Eagles seems to me(only my subjective feeling of course)more lively while Murena is technically perfect but with somewhat cold "academic" feeling.
Vae Victis is very talkative series with rather hollywod Romans(but it is already much older in date than rest of mentioned).
Age of Bronze is great too.
I had to mention also Apostata from Ken Broeders(whom I translated to myself from original and it is my favorite alongside eagles),but many other series exist,some of them even set into late Roman era like Apostata.