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" Kieron Gillen has unveiled Three. The Iron Man writer announced his five-issue Image Comics miniseries at New York Comic Con.  The Ryan Kelly-illustrated title will dwell on the darker side of the Ancient Greek city state of Sparta. &amp;quot;I came home from these regular monthly drinks that we have in London and grabbed one of the nice hardback comics next to the bed - and in this case it was [Frank Miller&amp;#039;s] 300,&amp;quot; Gillen told Comics Alliance. &amp;quot;I picked it up, flipped through it, really not very much paying any attention to it. And [I read] one of the speeches about &amp;#039;The only free men the world has ever known&amp;#039;, and literally had a moment of incandescent rage and shouted at the book, &amp;#039;You hunted slaves!&amp;#039; &amp;quot;And at that second the entire plot of Three downloaded, including the twist, the structure, everything.&amp;quot; The series will be set years after the Battle of Thermopylae, which was depicted in 300. Gillen said that it was &amp;quot;inspired by... but not literally about&amp;quot; Miller&amp;#039;s graphic novel, describing it as an &amp;quot;equal and opposite reaction&amp;quot; to the book. Gillen will be writing Iron Man and Young Avengers for the Marvel NOW! initiative. "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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