Symposium #3: A SideQuest Comic

The Foreworld Saga

by Christian Cameron, Dmitry Bondarenko (Artist)

SideQuests are stand-alone stories or novellas that chronicle the heroes, villains, and adventures in The Foreworld Saga across numerous ages. They can be read with or without prior knowledge of The Foreworld Saga. Symposium is set in the Classical Era. The Shield-Brethren are a secret martial order that has defended the West for centuries. Now, the origins of the order are revealed in this stunning three-issue SideQuest comic book. Our heroes, seeking to realize the idea offered to them by the philosopher Plato, leave Athens and travel to Delphi with hope of visiting the oracle. They have a dream to found a city of their own, and they desire insight from the oracle as to their question. But their skills—both as warriors and as thinking men—will be tested by adversaries they do not even know they have.
This comic contains explicit content and is recommended for mature readers.

27 pages, Kindle Edition

First published June 17, 2014

About the author

Aka Miles Cameron. Also publishes as Gordon Kent with his father Kenneth M. Cameron.

Christian Cameron was born in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania in 1962. He grew up in Rockport, Massachusetts, Iowa City, Iowa,Christian Cameron and Rochester, New York, where he attended McQuaid Jesuit High School and later graduated from the University of Rochester with a degree in history.

After the longest undergraduate degree on record (1980-87), he joined the United States Navy, where he served as an intelligence officer and as a backseater in S-3 Vikings in the First Gulf War, in Somalia, and elsewhere. After a dozen years of service, he became a full time writer in 2000. He lives in Toronto (that’s Ontario, in Canada) with his wife Sarah and their daughter Beatrice, currently age four. And a half.

Reviews

[Tres Herndon · Rating 4 out of 5]

Honestly, there was a long gap between when I read #2 and #3, and I had difficulty recalling what was going on. After a few pages I was able to get into the flow and enjoyed the story of the group's visit to Delphi. My one complaint is that many of the Greeks tended to blend together, but I'm sure if I read Symposium 1-3 back-to-back that would be less of an issue.