Crowdfunding Campaign For Sci-Fi Version Of ‘The Odyssey’ Launches May 26th
by Tom Smithyman
Move over Christopher Nolan. Bruno Catarino has his own take on The Odyssey.
While a new version of the Greek epic hits movie screens this summer thanks to Nolan, Catarino — whose other comics work includes Crimson Bay and Prey — is taking a different tact with the material. He is setting his version of the story in space.
A crowdfunding campaign for The Odyssey #1 kicks off on May 26th. Catarino adapts the story into a space opera while Erwin J. Arroza provides the artwork and Matias Zenetti letters.
The city-state Troy is replaced with a planet of the same name. Its impenetrable walls are now a planet-wide force field. The Trojan Horse is a spaceship. Oligarchs and artificial intelligence take the place of the gods. Yet the hero Odysseus is still Odysseus, and he’s trying to get back home. Instead of an ocean, though, he must travel across light years of space.
“Our goal when adapting The Odyssey as a sci-fi space opera was to bring it to the 21st century and recapture the same sense of wonder and impossible odds that the original had in ancient times,” Catarino says on the Kickstarter page.
He also states that the first 24-page issue is complete. Backer rewards won’t be revealed until the launch.
