A review by ljrinaldi
Britannia Volume 2: We Who Are about to Die by Peter Milligan

2.0

I have been reading comic books since I was a child, and I am well past my half century. I have read everything from regular super hero books to what was known as Underground, to just about anything that had pictures and was in a comic book form.

This is all to say I am aware of bloody, fighting comics. Read them as super hero comics. Read them as underground or independent comics. Doesn't mean I have to like them. This book is set in the time of Nero, and involves a detective trying to find out what is killing all the noble children.

There are vestal virgins, and talking statures, and gladiators, and slaves, and you know what? I really didn't care about the any of them.

So, perhaps this book is for you. Perhaps you like fighting and blood, and mysteries of the gods, and emperors. But I never really got into any of this, and when, as another reviewer pointed out, our review copy's last chapter lacked words, it didn't really make a difference.

Thanks to Netgalley for making this book available for an honest review.