Vol 1, The Faust Act: illustrated by Jamie McKelvie, colored by Matt Wilson.
Every ninety years twelve deities are awoken as teenagers. They live for two years as cultural icons and then they die. Unfortunately for Luci (Lucifer’s incarnation), she’s on trial for murder and none of her fellow deities will help her out. We follow the efforts of fan girl Laura as she tries to prove Luci’s innocence and even teams up with a skeptical investigative journalist to do so. Laura hopes to become part of the Pantheon she loves, and her adventures lead her to encounters with the rest of the reincarnated gods.
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Many of us probably know the tale of Persephone and Hades, and a cursory background knowledge may help, but is not mandatory, for understanding this story.
In Persephone, Locatelli-Kournwsky takes cues from mythology, but crafts a world very different from Greek mythology. Persephone is the adopted daughter of Demeter, a powerful witch who fought in the war against Hades. Now, the way to Hades is sealed, and Persephone lives a normal teenage life in the Studio Ghibli-esque city in the kingdom of Elesius. That is, until she is tricked into passing through the portal to the netherworld, and forced to bite a cursed Fruit of the Damned. One lock of her hair turns blue, instead of her whole head, a sign to others that she has tasted the fruit. She is rescued by some passing merchants and taken to the castle, where Rhadamanthus has been trying to rule the kingdom in his father's absence. Meanwhile, Demeter must convince the Council of Elesius to let her break the seal on the portal so she can rescue her daughter. For good measure, a trip to Tartarus rounds out this adaptation of the classic myth.
Illustrated by Kunieda & Suzuhito Yasuda
Here's a cute and whimsical title for adventure-fiction lovers (once they get over the ridiculous and long title!). This story follows Bell, an up-and-coming adventurer in the service of his goddess, Hestia. Bell adventures in the dungeon below Orario, a city inhabited by gods from all sorts of pantheons who have descended into the mortal realm because their lives in paradise grew too boring. Unlike other gods with multiple adventurers, Hestia's Familia is just Bell. Bell falls in love with Ais Wallenstein, an adventurer in the powerful Familia of Loki, and he aspires to be strong enough to earn her affections. In order to do this, Bell has to "level up" by beating monsters in the dungeon. |
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