This is one of many adaptations of the classic tragedy by Euripedes. I highly recommend this treatment1 to anyone as a first appreciation.
And it’s quite the story: love, lust, betrayal, spirituality, filicide, redemption, wisdom, general chicanery, geopolitics, racism. The artwork is fantastic and hypnotic2.
In a thousand years, I’ve heard of hundreds of wars and massacres, most of which have been forgotten. An evil force is at work in the world, a terrible law that requires the weak, the dreamers, and the gentle souls to disappear to benefit the powerful. In the end, there will be nothing left but a hardened, greedy race, drunk on the power it has acquired over the centuries. An iron-fisted race, a thousand times more violent than it is today. And I’m glad to know I won’t be here to see it.
I mean… silly stories, right?
