So when I picked this up – because the cover doesn’t give much away – and knowing that the story of the Odyssey can’t really be told without a certain level of ick… I was worried. Even thinking about the art just creeps me out. I mean, at the far end of the spectrum, there’s Ren and Stimpy which gave me legitimate nightmares as a child. There’s a sort of… ickyness to it? It plays on slightly nasty details and it just… bleerrgh no. There’s gradations of it, but it’s currently most exemplified in Adventure Time. There’s a particular art-style I really, really dislike. So, why is it so fantastically brilliant? I’ll get to the Classics in a bit more detail in a moment, but for starters: the art. I need the next volume as soon as it’s available… which looks to be May this year *saves date in ‘phone calendar*. Not going to lie, this post is just going to be a stream of uninterrupted joy, because I loved this book without reservation. The way they write epithets, and twist the plot around the changes they’ve made. And the writers knew a thing or ten about the actual Odyssey. You remember all those half-formed misgivings I had about originality in The Wicked + The Divine? None of those here. And it’s an actually original, inspired re-write of the Odyssey.
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