The Caucasian Mountains, six years later. Horses made powerful warriors but also conquered distance. She wore his horned helmet and carried his round shield.
Now a skilled warrior she knew it was "the Price." Yet killing bothered her conscience. They have had this argument once before. A horn from his helmet caught on something and he broke his neck. Using her staff, she had knocked him off his horse. She now wears a mini-dress of chain mail that had been tunic for a tall man she had killed. Gabrielle follows behind on a white charger. The picture is inspired by the 1973 Frank Frazetta painting 'The Death Dealer'. They had just killed or driven off a Scythian band. The Iron Age had come to the regions north of Greece and the leather armor and copper or bronze weapons of her youth no longer served. Someone has been supplying the Scythians with iron weapons, balanced war axes that could be thrown as missiles. On her head, she wears a helmet spiked with horns. She has reverted to the look of her youth, to the time of THE DEBT (52-53/306-307). The superhero is again mounted on a huge black war-horse wearing a mixture of exotic Scythian armor. The opening frame shows a more matured Xena. Her real name was probably something from archaic pre-Farsi Persian, a name such as Esther. They call her Frigg after the wife of Odin. In this strip, on the steppes, Xena and Gabrielle meet a Sythian shamaness. Some of her travels to China and other remote parts of the known world are the same as those of the fictional Sir John Mandeville in the 14th century. Her old dark side introduces greed into Valhalla. In the final season, she takes part in Norse legend. The costumes the figures wore were claimed to be archeologically correct. Moreover, Xena was determined to be a historically accurate view of the final decade of the Peloponnesian Wars. Skinheads claim that Xena was based on some as yet unidentified but actual historical figures. For instance, the Berserker who Xena battles in the first episode of the fourth season was a Norse warrior or champion. The last season especially linked her with Norse myths. This linkage had already begun, by the writers of the show themselves. This strip links Xena: Warrior Princess to the skinhead message. This is a Xenite alternative fan fiction story found in Aryan Comics, a skinhead publication in the planning stages. Report of A Skinhead Comic Strip Reconstructed from Memory:Īs told in the scrolls of Gabrielle, Bard of Poteidaia.
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