ODY-C: Cycle One

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