Summary
ODY-C, modeled after Homer's Odyssey, is a psychedelic, gender-brokescience-fiction epic that tells the story of three legendary warrior-queensreturning home after a centuries-long battle. Odyssia, of fair Ithicaa,encounters everything that can get in her way and slow her homecoming --and realizes with dawning horror that maybe she doesn't want to return. QueenEne, she who rules the universe, reclaims her husband He of Troiia only to findherself trapped in a place where even the Goddesses cannot see -- a secretworld of men gone mad. And as for Queen Gamem, she has a date with her lovelornwife and a warm bath of her own blood...
Told in verse with a visualsensibility that redefines the very possibilities of the comics medium, thisgloriously oversized hardcover collects issues #1-12 plus exclusive bonusmaterials including essays by classicist Dani Colman, teaching aids, and amassive ten-page fold-out only available in the sold-out firstissue.
"Fraction and Ward are doing wildly imaginative work combiningfantastic Greek mythology with futuristic science fiction, and the book has avisual sensibility unlike anything else on the stands." -- A.V. Club
Told in verse with a visualsensibility that redefines the very possibilities of the comics medium, thisgloriously oversized hardcover collects issues #1-12 plus exclusive bonusmaterials including essays by classicist Dani Colman, teaching aids, and amassive ten-page fold-out only available in the sold-out firstissue.
"Fraction and Ward are doing wildly imaginative work combiningfantastic Greek mythology with futuristic science fiction, and the book has avisual sensibility unlike anything else on the stands." -- A.V. Club
Additional Information
Subjects |
Interplanetary voyages
-- Comic books, strips, etc.
Voyages and travels -- Comic books, strips, etc. Science fiction comics. Fantasy comics. Comics (Graphic works) Graphic novels. Adaptations. |
Publisher | Berkeley, CA :2016 |
Other Titles | Odyssey. Cycle one |
Contributors |
Fraction, Matt,
author. Ward, Christian (Christian J.), artist. Homer. Odyssey. Image Comics, publisher. |
Audience |
Rated M, mature. |
Language |
English |
Notes |
Reimagining of Homer's The Odyssey. "Ody-C created by Matt Fraction and Christian Ward." "Contains material originally published in single magazine form as ODY-C #1-12." |
Description |
1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 29 cm |
ISBN | 9781632159274 1632159279 |
Other | Classic View |