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"Contains material originally published in single magazine form as ODY-C #1-12."
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
ODY-C, modeled after Homer's Odyssey, is a psychedelic, gender-broke
science-fiction epic that tells the story of three legendary warrior-queens
returning 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. Queen
Ene, she who rules the universe, reclaims her husband He of Troiia only to find
herself trapped in a place where even the Goddesses cannot see — a secret
world of men gone mad. And as for Queen Gamem, she has a date with her lovelorn
wife and a warm bath of her own blood...
Told in verse with a visual
sensibility that redefines the very possibilities of the comics medium, this
gloriously oversized hardcover collects issues #1-12 plus exclusive bonus
materials including essays by classicist Dani Colman, teaching aids, and a
massive ten-page fold-out only available in the sold-out first
issue.
"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." -- A.V. Club
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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."
