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Published: 2016-12-06 00:08:17 +0000 UTC; Views: 12129; Favourites: 137; Downloads: 0
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Yes, with the exception of the last panel the rest is legit. The text is from The Alexiad (Αλεξιάς) of Anna Komnena, the first recorded female historian of the Western World and the daughter of Byzantine Emperor Alexios Komnenos. She wrote a biography of her father, recounting his reign as was seen by both herself and companions of her father who fought alongside him. For the most part the book is considered a reliable historic account but some times one has to wonder if she is exaggerating about some of her father's deeds.Related content
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Meanwhile, the invention of that brilliant blacksmith of his, “Smoked Glass Visor” was proving more interesting than just protection from looking at white hot metal.
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Hmmm... Let's see... The partial plate arms? Yeah. I am pretty sure that's the one
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That last part, lmfao. This is great, I tried to draw something similar to this years ago, but yours easily beats what I had. xD
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Thank you, glad you liked it! Do you by any chance still have your old drawing? I'd love to take a look at it!
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Το τελευταίο πάνελ είναι όλα τα λεφτά!😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂👌
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I'm just going to leave this here: images.mentalfloss.com/blogs/w…
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I could easily favorite your entire gallery. There will be plenty of time for that, but for now - this is incredible. I died at that last frame hahah.
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By all means, feel free to do it anytime! 
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These Latins wouldn't happen to be French speaking Norsemen would they?
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Indeed. They were the Normans of Sicily, led by Robert Guiscard "the Fox".
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Thanks a lot! Glad that you liked my work! Take care and glorify the Emperor!
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Thank you friend! Glad you like my work! Take care!
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You're welcome and have earned yourself a new watcher.
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I can't tell you how much I love this comment.
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Super! Μπράβο φίλε!
Υπάρχει περίπτωση να σου ζητήσω να κάνεις ένα σκίτσο?
Αφορά τον Ιωάννη Κομνηνό και την πολιορκία στο Shaizar. Νομίζω θα ήτανε πολύ καλό
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Να' σαι καλά! Έχω αρκετές δουλειές και projects αυτον τον καιρό, αλλά όποτε ξεκλέψω λίγο χρόνο θα τον τιμήσω και τον Καλοϊωάννη.
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Father of Matrix
Ok i knew Alex was epic but this is just hilarious 
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I remember reading that description. What a great idea to illustrate it! And you made it absolutely epic. I especially like panel 3 - it's really dynamic and the normal looks brilliant. That face-mask looks awesome. (and lol for that last panel). Will you be doing any other passages from the Alexiad?
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Thanks! At one point I would like to make the whole Alexiad into a comic. But for now I am working on my current comic so... not in the near future. I just had to crack a joke about this scene now that I had some free time.
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Ah, that would be an impressive project indeed! Hope you manage to do it one day!
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"Looks like our Basileus left the enemy... DISARMED! YEAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAH!!!!"
In all seriousness, absolutely well done!
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Did I mentions that I love you for doing this? I can't even tell you how happy this makes me inside. Totally made my day.
If you ever have plans on continuing this series, I'd heartily recommend doing the scene where Bohemond slips past Alexius' men by pretending he's dead. 
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Aye! It would be a scene worth doing. Maybe one day... For now back to my comic.
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Primary sources are just the best.
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HAHAHAHAH!!! YES!! THIS IS SO AWESOME. I just love you for doing this. I also just love The Alexiad. I actually wanted to illustrate a scene a little bit after this one, where the Norman knights are chasing him and he leaps his horse over a canyon and the Norman knights on the other side are like, "O crap, we can't make that jump! Robert Guiscard is going to eat us alive!"
Also, the last panel: www.youtube.com/watch?v=7uW47j…
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Thank you very much! I would love to see your take on the Alexiad as well. It is a really good book. Anna sure had her way with words.
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Indeed she did!
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Yes! I also loved that too. Here in Greece we have some pseudo-intellectuals who claimed that the Byzantines (being evil Christiaaaans) hated everything Ancient Greek and tried to wipe it out. Besides the obvious influences of their art, writings, mathematics and medicine, I introduce them to the Alexiad to disprove them... mostly by smacking it across their stupid face (being hardcover does wonders...)
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Haha! Indeed! It sounds like they need a good smacking across the face! I'll admit that the Alexiad is the only Byzantine primary source I've read in full, but even just reading smatterings of the Alexiad or any other Byzantine writings would clearly show how much the Byzantines were proud of and exulted in their classical roots and education. Seriously, the things people say when they obviously have never read even snippets of the primary sources! Actually, just yesterday one of my professors (Late Medieval history class) was talking about Joan of Arc and he said a number of erroneous things about her, including that she was burnt for witchcraft! 
But I digress.
Have you ever heard of/read Alfred Duggan? He wrote historical fiction back in the 1950s and I just came across him in the last couple of years. As a writer and storyteller, he's not the best (in terms of character development, incredible historical immersion and poetic writing style) but I love him nonetheless for his great attention to historical detail, his rather hilarious and dry sense of humor and the way he's able to convey a lot of historical information in his novels. As one of my friends said, he uses writing novels more as a vehicle for telling history than as pure storytelling. But the stuff he chooses to write about is fascinating history. He did a lot of medieval and Roman history, though he also wrote a book about Demetrios Poliorcetes called Besieger of Cities. Anyway, some of my favorites are: Count Bohemond, Lady for Ransom (about some adventures of some Norman mercenaries hired to fight at the battle of Manzikert), Leopards and Lilies (about the adventures of Falkes de Breauté, told through the eyes of his wife) and Lord Geoffrey's Fancy (about the Sir Geoffrey of Bruyères, a French Baron in Frankish Greece after the Latin conquest of Constantinople). That's not a time period you read much about.
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