An Empire in Siege
 

Achilles
Agamemnon
Ajax
Diomedes
Hector
Menelaus
Odysseus
Paris

The greatest heroes in history...

The epic saga from Homer has influenced literature since the day it was discovered. Presented here is a re-telling
of the classic epic from the human perspective, rather than from that of the Greek Gods. Covered within these
pages are the events that led to the extraordinary Trojan War.

Her name was Helen, her beauty was renowned throughout the world.

"The face that launched a thousand ships".

In this struggle, great heroes, both in glory and in weakness, grapple in a conflict that raged for ten years.

     The Greeks and the Trojans fought for their kings.

     They fought for glory.

     They fought for Helen.

      Here is the story of that fated war.

      Here is the story of TROY

Troy covers the great and this version deals with a much more human level as the gods are not part of the storyline.  It also covers the events
that led to the war and the tragic aftermath.

Gary Reed's Thoughts and Notes about TROy:
It was with mixed emotions that I saw the movie, Troy, starring Brad Pitt.  I had quite a bit of interest in my version as a film property before the movie was announced and it pained me to see that my version would never be made into a film since one was already coming out.  I liked much of the Troy film although the liberties that they took with the Iliad were irritating (mainly killing off characters who survived and keeping Paris and others alive at the end) but not too many people have actually read the Iliad so I'm sure most are unaware.  I've read many  of the Greek tragedies and the only thing that I found bothersome about them was the direct  activity of the gods.  So, when I wrote Troy, I purposely kept them out of the story...as did the  film.  Troy featured the art of Philip Xavier, a French artist who brought a European sensibility to the graphic novel.