ODY-C, cycle one - 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