10 Criminally Overlooked Ongoing Comics You Need To Check Out
2. Ody-C
The Odyssey is easily one of the most iconic, quintessential stories in the entire history of storytelling. The only problem is that it's very much a product of its time.
Ody-C takes everything great about The Odyssey - the poetry, the adventure, the classic Hero's Journey - and repackages it in a gender-swapped modern sci-fi fantasy tale spread across distant star systems, rather than the Atlantic Ocean.
Marketed as "an epic 26 centuries in the making," Ody-C follows Odyssia and her crew in their struggle to return home after the war, when obviously things don't go as planned.
This series features beautiful art from Christian Ward, and impressive dactylic hexameter from Matt Fraction, who put effort into emulating the meter and rhythm of the original Greek. Ody-C isn't a graphic novel, it's a graphic epic.
With twelve issues out of a planned twenty-four currently available, it's the perfect time to get caught up. And you don't want to miss the eight-page fold-out spread in the inaugural issue.