With a writer like Warren Ellis, the artist really has to be up to the task. I've found some of the pencilers and inkers that have illustrated Ellis' ideas not up to snuff (they are the minority though). In this instance not only do I think Raulo Caceres was talented enough to envision Ellis' concept but he teeters on stealing the spotlight. Raulo has truly mastered the dark arts...no, not the majik based arts, we're talking black laden panels with white only escaping the shroud in creases. With a look like that, half the story is already told. Well, it's 1346 and the English are terrorizing the French countryside to put an end to French invasions. Nobody likes to read Shakespere, or more to the point, nobody likes to have to decipher old English to read a good yarn. So, Ellis give us a narrator that speaks in current English while telling this tale to the reader, but doubles as a bowman in the actual story. This is a brilliant concept because that way the narrator can explain historical facts from a firsthand perspective, yet doesn't need a translator. 300 has a historical base but you best believe the hyperbole was heaped on, Crecy on the other hand is the gritty and grimy truth about early English counter-terorism.