The Shield-Brethren are a secret martial order that has defended the West for centuries. Now, the origins of the order are revealed in this stunning three-issue SideQuest comic book. While the conservative ruling powers of decadent Athens arrange to have them watched, four young men go to a dinner party with Plato--Xenophon, the king of Macedon; a pair of Spartans; and the most beautiful woman in Athens. The question on everyone's What form would an ideal city take? The answer is a quest, and a dream...
Christian Cameron was born in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania in 1962. He grew up in Rockport, Massachusetts, Iowa City, Iowa,Christian Cameron and Rochester, New York, where he attended McQuaid Jesuit High School and later graduated from the University of Rochester with a degree in history.
After the longest undergraduate degree on record (1980-87), he joined the United States Navy, where he served as an intelligence officer and as a backseater in S-3 Vikings in the First Gulf War, in Somalia, and elsewhere. After a dozen years of service, he became a full time writer in 2000. He lives in Toronto (that’s Ontario, in Canada) with his wife Sarah and their daughter Beatrice, currently age four. And a half.
More focused than the first issue, Symposium #2 mostly describes a debate on how to found the perfect city, a city that will become the home of the OMVVI. Not the most gripping read, but I'll continue the series.