Olympia #1

Olympia #1

by Curt Pires, Tony Pires, Alex Diotto (Artist)

DOUBLE-SIZED FIRST ISSUE! Elon is a latchkey kid who spends his days alone reading comic books—until his favorite superhero, Olympian, comes crashing off the page and into reality! But as he nurses his wounded and delirious hero back to health, he discovers Olympian isn’t the only thing that came through… something evil followed him. A comedic yet heartfelt love letter to the comics medium, OLYMPIA is also a meditation on hope and loss, conceived by CURT PIRES (Wyrd) and his father, TONY PIRES, while Tony was undergoing treatment for cancer.

Genres: Graphic Novels, Graphic Novels Comics, Comics

46 pages, Kindle Edition

Published November 20, 2019

Reviews

[Christine · Rating 1 out of 5]

Meh. Not very Olympian in power.

[Oneirosophos · Rating 5 out of 5]

OMG THIS IS A MASTERPIECE!

And a WONDERFUL tribute to Kirby's cosmic mythology comics.

edit: My full review in Greek @ comicdom.gr:

https://www.comicdom.gr/2019/11/25/ol...

[Paige · Rating 3 out of 5]

I love this kind of plot. I liked the ideas that the Olympian couldn’t remember past what came out in the comics and I could imagine how good this comic could get. I have a little nit picky problem where I kept getting distracted by the bad words being censored. I get it for Luke Cage for Marvel because they are known for a certain rating, but this is Image! I’m used to seeing and reading far worse so I couldn’t understand why if they wanted to go that direction they could have just gone all the way and make it rated mature. Also the f-word gay slur (not censored at all) really confused me because you can say that but not the multitude of bad words? It was very distracting and took me out of the story so only 3 stars.

[Luis Moreno · Rating 5 out of 5]

ALL HAIL VICODIN!

[Christopher Funk · Rating 5 out of 5]

I blew right through this one. Great storytelling and solid pacing. The art intentionally feels nostalgic, and the story is clearly building to something heart wrenching. C'mon Pires, you sonuva, let's do this!

[Michael Meserve · Rating 4 out of 5]

A good start to a god fallen to earth story.

[DOUGLAS J BERRY · Rating 5 out of 5]

A battle for the Multiverse is taking place?

Good color artwork,image freebie. A boy meets a god from his comic books. Reality is warping and the boy has trouble facing reality.

[Carlos · Rating 2 out of 5]

Interesting premise.
Terrible and badly executed ending.

[Petya · Rating 1 out of 5]

Not my style. Felt guilty not finishing it, given the back story.

[Colby Fitzsimmons · Rating 4 out of 5]

Will continue

At first I didn't know if I wanted to continue this but then at the end the author put a nice note saying thank you to all his readers and how it is a personal story to him so I will continue to read the rest and find out why it was a personal story.