"Set in post-war Troy, this wrenching comics-poetry update of Euripides' tragic play by poet Carson and artist Bruno embodies feminine narratives with wry lyricism. Bruno's black-and-white illustrations literalize poetic metaphors to whimsical effect. Yet the cleverness and agility of this graphic work amplify its tragedies. Even the infamous Helen, a shape-shifter who appears as a silver fox and a mirror, must defend her life to her husband, the king Menelaos, after Hekabe wants her 'sentenced to death out of her own mouth' for her apparent complicity in the downfall of Troy. Accompanied by a chorus of cows and dogs, Hekabe mourns the death of a final heir (drawn as a sapling) and says, 'We can't go on/ we go on.' Such is the story of war and genocide throughout history, and in Carson and Bruno's expert hands, it strikes as powerfully contemporary.".