ODY-C: Cycle One by Matt Fraction
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
AV. CLUB -- "Fraction and Ward are doing wildly imaginative work combining fantastic Greek mythology with futuristic science fiction, and the book has a visual sensibility unlike anything else on the stands."
Matt Fraction writes comic books out in the woods and lives with his wife, writer Kelly Sue DeConnick, his two children, two dogs, a cat, a bearded dragon, and a yard full of coyotes and crows. He's a New York Times bestselling writer of comics like Sex Criminals (winner of the 2014 Will Eisner Award for Best New Series and named TIME Magazine's Best Comic of 2013), ODY-C, and Casanova. Under their company Milkfed Criminal Masterminds, Inc., Fraction and DeConnick are currently developing television for NBC/Universal. In 2019 Fraction made his DC debut with Superman's Pal Jimmy Olsen, an acclaimed and irreverent take on the DC Universe.
| SKU | Unavailable |
| ISBN 13 | 9781632159274 |
| ISBN 10 | 1632159279 |
| Title | ODY-C: Cycle One |
| Author | Matt Fraction |
| Series | Ody-C Hc |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Hardback |
| Publisher | Image Comics |
| Year published | 2016-12-13 |
| Number of pages | 400 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
| Note | Unavailable |