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Some people would do anything for love... even go to war... forever. What happened to Ene the Conqueror, and He, of Troiia, after the end of the Troiian War and they departed for home, reunited at last? It doesn't go well for either of them, it turns out. You think war is hell? Try being married to these two. This legendary couple find themselves trapped on a world where madness reigns and blood flows daily. To escape, Ene must hunt and kill the bastard son of a god and He must weave stories night after night hoping to stay alive long enough for his bride to rescue him.
About the author
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. Surely there’s a metaphor there. He's a New York Times-best-selling donkus 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.
After 10 years of encouraging London teenagers to draw anything other than comics, Christian Ward is now a multi-Eisner Award winning comic book artist and writer.
He is best known for his cosmic space operas ODY-C (co-created with Matt Fraction) and
Invisible Kingdom (co-created with G. Willow Wilson). He was also the artist on the acclaimed Marvel comics series
Black Bolt (with Saladin Ahmed), as well contributing to both
Thor (with Jason Arron) and
Batman (with James Tynion IV). In 2019 he released his first book as a writer,
Machine Gun Wizards (co-created with Sami Kivelä) and has juggled loving writing comics with loving drawing comics ever since.
Ward currently lives in Shrewsbury with his two daughters, his wife Catherine, and a pug named Thor.
Summary
Some people would do anything for love... even go to war... forever. What
happened to Ene the Conqueror, and He, of Troiia, after the end of the Troiian
War and they departed for home, reunited at last? It doesn't go well for either
of them, it turns out. You think war is hell? Try being married to these two.
This legendary couple find themselves trapped on a world where madness reigns
and blood flows daily. To escape, Ene must hunt and kill the bastard son of a
god and He must weave stories night after night hoping to stay alive long enough
for his bride to rescue him... The second volume in this critically acclaimed
series collects issues #6-10.
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THE ONION'S A.V. 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."
