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BRYAN DOERRIES is a writer, director, and translator. A self-described evangelist for classical literature and its relevance to our lives today, Doerries uses age-old approaches to help individuals and communities heal after suffering and loss. He is the founder of Theater of War, a project that presents readings of ancient Greek plays to service members, veterans, and their families to help them initiate conversations about the visible and invisible wounds of war. He is also the co-founder of Outside the Wire, a social-impact company that uses theater and a variety of other media to address pressing public health and social issues.
Marine sergeant Jack Brennan's platoon is on the way home from a grueling deployment to Afghanistan. It's not the first time through this cycle for Brennan and a couple others, but this time, He wants to tell us a story, as one man gripes, before they go home-several stories, actually, from the greatest saga of a soldier going home, The Odyssey... Like a sergeant himself, writer Doerries makes a platoon of artists fall into a consistent style-a kind of stripped-down Swamp Thing look-in both Homeric and contemporary scenes to keep this exercise in comics-as-therapy compelling. -Ray Olson, Booklist
