Written by Peter MilliganArt by Werther Dell'Edera
This issue of Greek Street marks a sudden turn in direction for the title. This new storyline, 'Ajax', has (so far) none of the characters from the first year of the title, instead focusing on Alex, a young lower-class Brit who has returned from a tour in Afghanistan where he suffered some form of injury, and received no military decoration for it.
The story starts in the present, where Alex is bitter, disillusioned, and seeing visions of a skeletal Greek warrior. The story quickly flashes back to Alex's tour, where he shoots an unarmed local man who he thought was reaching for a gun.
I love war comics, so I'm highly predisposed to a story like this, but I appreciate Milligan's approach to this story. He's keeping most of the information close to the vest, and while he works in the Greek connection, I'm sadly ignorant of what myth or legend he is updating with this story.
Werther Dell'Edera is a good guest artist for this type of arc. The Afghani landscape suits his sparse penciling style. Is this arc a one-off before we return to Eddie and the usual crowd, or is Milligan structuring this book more like Northlanders, with rotating, unconnected arcs?
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