Hannibal Goes to Rome
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It was a war that embroiled Western Civilization for two decades. Hundreds of thousands died in the steel and ice of the Second Punic War, as the most powerful empires in the world clashed!
Throughout Europe and Africa, kingdoms dissolved, merged and formed in the bloody shockwaves of society's first true clash of empires.
Of course this makes great comedy!
As the mercenary forces of Carthage invade an ever-expanding Roman Empire, only one man has the audacity and talent to command the charge. One man, unlike any other before or since in history, is capable of dismantling the Roman machine. One man, alone, is crazy enough to bring elephants over the Alps. That man is Hannibal Barca, and this is his story, albeit condensed into a sardonic comic strip.
Told in a humorous (yet historically accurate) manner, Hannibal Goes to Rome humanizes the inhumane actions that indelibly altered the course of civilization. More force than man, Hannibal pitted himself against Roman society, and very nearly swept it from history. Despite commanding over the mightiest slaughters in ancient warfare, he strove to maintain a measure of human dignity and respect against an enemy that perfected fascism.
Writer Brendan McGinley (Dose) and artist Mauro Vargas (David & Goliath; Vindicators; Dose) bring you the historical, hysterical account of a man with big dreams, and the big elephants he rode to pursue them.
This May, Hannibal is at the gates.
exceptional work
Thanks! Check out the new chapters (in color!) at http://www.shadowlinecomics.com/webcomics/#/hannibalgoestorome/
and let me know what you think.
Really enjoyed this. Have come to enjoy History alot. I love a good comic and humor, as well. The Art drew me in. Great Job.
Glad to see this is making a comeback over at Shadowline/Image.
I don't think we showed the Romans sacrificing anyone to the gods yet(that comes after Cannae, when they put up some Greeks and Gauls on the altar). They did, according to their own legend, rape the Sabine women after killing their husbands.
Rome had ceased regularly practicing human sacrifice by that stage, that I think Livy makes note of how desperate they were to do it after Cannae. But was it formally outlawed yet? I don't think that happened for another 100 years or so.
Good comic.... but the Romans did not sacrifice any humans. Carthaginians did though, they have found children bones that they have dug up in the ruins of Carthage's city's. The Romans only sacrificed animals, as did most civilizations in Antiquity. In fact, the Romans prided themselves on not sacrificing people, that was one of the things they held against the Carthaginians. Among greedy territory disputes, but hell, they where only behaving as any ancient civilization would, they just did it best, for a while.
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I like this one
Thanks, thanks and more thanks to all the comments and votes you made.
I didn´imagine to be in the 4.So, it´s great, and i promise ill do better Hannibal pages in the future.
Mauro Vargas.
www.maurodibuja.blogspot.com
Congratulations on a great comic and putting up a good fight. Hope to see more from you again soon.
Oh, and Bankshot...just wait till after the Philly Con to have a bar date so that the Timony Twins (and I) can make it!
It was a very tough choice this month, but I adored your comic (and I never switched my vote from you!) and I hope Hannibal can be picked up elsewhere. Otherwise just email it to me so I can learn what happens next. ;D
Guys, lemme know the future of Hannibal. I will send you the kid-colored goodness of your pages soon. Well done; given previous months, finishing in the top four is no easy feat!
--Gabe
great comic, guys! it's been fun competing with you and i wish you the best of luck in the future!
-steve
YOUR COMIC WAS THE SUPERIOR BLACK AND WHITE COMIC ON THIS MONTHS CONTEST. I concede that, and I can see why they ranked you first out the gates on may fifth. I love the artwork, and i dig the bio comic. Congratulations on the high ranking, you deserve it.
Hey, it looks like we're in the end stretch here. I'd like to thank everybody for their support and opinions, and congratulate the very worthy competition on one great job after another. It looks like no matter who wins, so do the readers.
If anyone's in New York, we're gonna have a night out at the bar for the end of competition and having to act like an atuomated shillbot! I'll post details here, and anybody who shows up gets a free sketch (which is neat) by me, not Mauro (which is disappointing, but as a consolation, you're still at a bar).
I'll make it known where and when shortly.
COME ON EVERYONE!! CHANGE YOUR VOTE TO GOLDEN!!! MAKE IT COUNT!! LET'S GO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Nice comic, the art is great and I like the dry sense of humor. I agree with others that it is confusing, but I suspect thats a function of trying to fit alot into an eight page space. I just finished a submission and its a tricky task. Good luck.
You have my vote but it is very confusing. The humor isn't my style either, but I guess some might find it funny. Good luck.
Great work!
I like this! You have my vote, good luck!
Beautiful work! Best wishes,
The Crawdad
Thank You Vragas.
Gerard Jones!? ......... The Gerard Jones ????
From DC comics? wow.
Great energy. And one of the best elephants ever.
I love the purple lettering, it makes it different, and stands out.
#1 PURPLE LETTERS FAN!!!!!!!!
...okay maybe not a #1 fan but I do like it.:)
Awesome graphics and storyline.
Thanks, folks!
Hey, here's a question for everyone who doesn't like the purple lettering (so in brief: everyone). Is that because you're reading it in the window? I assumed most people would be reading the strip in full-screen and it still scans easy on my eyes that way, but I certainly see the problem if read at regular size.
Deadly
Very, very, very well done. Looks polished, reads great. Definitely a fave.
wow! nice work! did you do it in flash? by the good luck hope you win!
Great art, great writing. Very well done!
Thanks to you guys for the great read.
Vekesh: send me a mail to maurocvargas@gmail.com and ill send you the page you like in high resolution.
And really thanks RKB, means a lot to us when a "non-cartoon-reader" have a look at this kind of work.
Mauro.
I love this art. Any chance of getting high res pics for print ?
I think the Competitors displaying the strongest drawing ability are in Hannibal Goes to Rome and E. Good luck. hope one of these two titles win.
Thanks, RKB! That means a lot to know we've turned a head or two that wouldn't normally go for our stock in trade. We'll definitely continue, and we'll definitely let you folks know where.
I just asked him to take a look because he'd obviously been a big influence. Man, that guy's aces. You really ought to read the second and third volumes.
Didn't get my vote but one of the funnier comics I have read on Zuda and i don't usually go for the humor. I hope you keep this comic up somewhere else, and if you do let's us Zuda fans know so we can follow it. A really great piece of work here.
Thumbs up from Gonick...NICE! Please tell me how you came about that?!? I think if more people were familiar with his work, they would have understood your style choices (Black & White, wordy texts) and really would have appreciated it a little more.
Me too, since my scripting style on this one was basically doing my best Gonick impression. It made my year when he gave this comic a thumbs up. Glad somebody ultimately noticed. :)
I'm surprised that NO ONE drew any comparisons Larry Gonick's , The Cartoon History of the Universe. I really liked the first volume of it (from Big Bang to Alexander the Great). I take it that the period in your comic would be in the second volume, which I haven't read. But your writing style and injection of visual and written humor is very similar but with much better artwork. With that being said, I can totally see how you can create a serial that I would look forward to read each month. Good job and Good Luck.
Hannibal is a funny comic and the drawing is genial and very cool. Don´t let visit my blog: www.rinconcito-oscuro.blogspot.com
Tomá, te la mandé chabon! Humille Vragas!
We just got our first piece of HANNIBAL fan-art!
It's in the pictures at MySpace: http://www.myspace.com/indelibleinc
No, Mauro, it's too late. Too late for us all. I've...I've activated the Thanatopsis Device.
Brendan don´t worry, maybe we could add color soon.
Thanks to all for the serious critic, and Gabe if your little colorists have something to share send me at: maurocvargas@gmail.com
Thanks!
I did it thanks for the help! It looks good.
Thanks, Sean!
Abbie, you met a cutie and you think it was me? My face scares small boars. What party was it?
Regardless, I am humbly grateful for the praise. All the goodness comes from its great artist.
There's a very logial reason for not using color, RKB, and it is this: I am an idiot.
Honestly, that's what it is. Mauro had done a few pieces for me before, I was used to his art in DOSE, where it shines with no need for a palette, and I just didn't think it needed my crummy colors. I could have hired a colorist, but HANNIBAL was originally intended for DOSE and the Zuda formatting was almost a whim. I didn't think anyone else would share my interest in the Carthaginians, and if we ended up competing at all, we'd be an also-ran. We figured these 8 screens would probably end up as 4 DOSE pages. I didn't count on Mauro's juggernaut art conquering all hearts.
So yeah, there you go: I'm an idiot.