The second volume in the New York Review's just launched line of comics also happens to be only the second work by the major league Bande Dessinée creator, Blutch to be translated into English and published in North America.  In Peplum, Blutch uses comics to take on a raft of ideas, notions, dreams and conceits that have accreted around the historical memory of ancient Rome and weaves them together in a pen and ink tapestry that brings with it a host of fresh perspectives.