Another Comic: Athena
Dynamite Entertainment has a new mini-series based on the goddess of Wisdom:
The incipit of a review at Comic Book Resources:
Though they originated thousands of years ago, the myths and legends of ancient Greece still serve as the gateway drug for fledgling fans of all kinds of adventure fiction in the modern day. In today’s pop culture, updated versions of the gods and goddesses make their presence known in all kinds of stories set across all kinds of genres. Along those lines, Dynamite Entertainment’s four-part “Athena” series finds the goddess of wisdom and war plucked out of ancient Greece and into the wiles of modern Manhattan. With a twist, of course.
“Athena wakes up at the base of the Parthenon in modern times,” writer Doug Murray told CBR. “Remember that the Parthenon was built in honor of Athena and originally featured a heroic-sized statue of her. She has no memory of being a Goddess or participating in the events of the ancient myths so, when she recovers, she is a sort of tabula rosa—and has to find a place in the modern world. There was some talk of making her a counseler, but I felt that making her an investigator for the D.A. of New York gave more story opportunities, and that’s the way we eventually went.”
… another one to keep my eye open for …
