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Dark Horse Comics adapta el bestseller Mitología Nórdica escrita por Neil Gaiman en formato cómic. El guión es adaptado por P. Craig Russell, con diferentes ilustradores invitados.
Dark Horse Comics adapts the bestseller Norse Mythology written by Neil Gaiman in comic format. The script is adapted by P. Craig Russell, with different guest illustrators.
What does it come from?
#1 New York Times bestselling author Neil Gaiman and Eisner Award-winning comics legend P. Craig Russell breathe new life into the ancient Norse stories by taking readers through the creation of the Nine Worlds to the epic origin and adventures of Thor, Odin, and Loki all the way to the end of life--Ragnarok.
PLOT
This comic includes the story "the mead of the poets" that tells how poetry was born according to Norse mythology.
It all begins with the peace treaty between the Aesir and the Vanir, which consisted of spitting into a "barrel" as part of the union and brotherhood of peoples, but Odin thinks that they must make something with all this saliva and Freya believes a man.This being is called Kvasir, the wisest god whom everyone in the kingdom asks for advice.
Kvasir decides one day to visit the 9 kingdoms to learn much more and meets two Dark Elves, Fjalar and Galar, who bleed him into a barrel created by them and by drinking their blood they are able to say poetry.Odin and Freya worry about Kvasir's disappearance.
One day Fjalar and Galar get into trouble with a giant and pay him with the blood of Kvasir.
Odin decides to go find Kvasir with a knife sharpening stone and a manual drill and it is when he begins to punish all those who have drunk the blood of Kvasir. The story continues in the next issue.
The way of telling these stories with the illustrations makes this comic feel natural, its reading becomes light and addictive.
ART
Matt Horak provides an art full of details that elevates the story, manages to highlight each of these characters as well as their emotions.
Resume
The story of how poetry is born is intense and full of betrayals and unexpectedly astonishing elements
5 of 5
Story: Neil Gaiman
Dark Horse Comics
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