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ODY-C: Cycle One by Matt Fraction (2016, Hardcover)

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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

Product Identifiers

PublisherImage Comics

ISBN-101632159279

ISBN-139781632159274

eBay Product ID (ePID)228739434

Product Key Features

GenreFiction, Comics & Graphic Novels

Publication Year2016

LanguageEnglish

Artist/WriterMatt Fraction

FormatHardcover

Dimensions

Item Length11.1in

Item Height1.1in

Item Weight49.9 Oz

Item Width7.7in

Additional Product Features

Number of Pages400 Pages

Book TitleOdy-C: Cycle One

Lccn2016-439071

Dewey Decimal741.5/973

Lc Classification NumberPn6728

Era Range16

Dewey Edition23

ReviewsA.V. CLUB -- "Fraction and Ward are doingwildly imaginative work combining fantastic Greek mythology with futuristicscience fiction, and the book has a visual sensibility unlike anything else onthe stands.", LIBRARY JOURNAL (STARRED) - Using Homer's epic poem The Odyssey as a starting point, author Fraction ( Sex Criminals )and illustrator Ward ( Infinite Vacation ) have crafted a psychedelic,feminist space opera that rips apart various figures from ancient myth,transports them into the future, and re-creates them to speak about modernconcerns. After years at war, warrior-queen Odyssia wants nothing more than toreturn home...a journey through the cosmos complicated by a pantheon ofgender-flipped deities with designs of their own. Every page bursts with color,energy, and inventive design by Ward, but Fraction's attempt to tell the storyin captions mimicking Homer's style of verse often feels like an interestingexperiment that fails to achieve total success. Still, something this ambitiouscan't be perfect, and the missteps don't take away from thegrandeur. Verdict There really is nothing elselike this out there, both in terms of content and aspiration, and, as such, fansof sf and experimental or independent comics should greet this one with greatenthusiasm.-Tom Batten, Grafton, VA

Target AudienceTrade

IllustratedYes

TopicSagas, Fantasy, Science Fiction