Warren Ellis: Crécy

[jlroberson.insanejournal.com]

Not exactly Simon Schama...

From one of my favorite GNs of the past few years, Warren Ellis and Raulo Caceres' Crécy from Avatar/Apparat.

I have posted my favorite pages, but to remain under the limit they're not consecutive mostly. Afraid you'll just have to read the whole thing after this, and it's still in print so do that.



A few words about arrowheads. And the Welsh.



And because the French would not allow commoners in the army and got unprepared mercenaries instead, and because the English had an army of trained commoner longbowmen, this happened. After the battle, we tie off loose ends, and learn the origin of a certain English gesture.


The reason for the gesture was that when archers were caught, those fingers were cut off. It was proof you could still fire an arrow.
All story and artwork (c)2007 Warren Ellis and Raulo Caceres

Comments

[fungo_squiggly.insanejournal.com]

Psh, everyone gets their plans fucked up in Russia.

It's like it's compulsory or something.

[cmdr_zoom.insanejournal.com]

To the point that the Russians finally got tired of jumped-up Europeans taking a run at them every so often and decided to create their own little empire as, among other things, a buffer zone.

[da_reap]

On the other hand, Mongols.

Took them out with a winter campaign, no less.