Riordan's highly popular "Olympians" series (Hyperion/Disney) is now a graphic novel. A timely release that can be recommended with George O'Connor's recent Olympians graphic novels, proving that while five years may seem too long, at least the wait was worth it.
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Where the slick and flashy movie version failed, Venditti's sharp-edged writing and Futaki's gritty and unpretentious art capture the same sense of grunge amid the wonder. But Riordan also injected a sense of thorny reality with twists like Percy's good-for-nothing stepfather and the entrance to Hades residing in a soulless Los Angeles. How could it have taken five years to see a graphic-novel adaptation of such a successful property as the Percy Jackson and the Olympians series, and one that, with its heroic destinies and epic action, seems tailor-made to the format? Riordan's original, like Harry Potter as if reimagined by Neil Gaiman, hits all the straightforward archetypes, with young Percy Jackson clued into the secret that he's actually the son of the Greek god Poseidon, then educated at Camp Half-Blood with the other illegitimate demigods before embarking on a hero's journey to stop a war of the Olympians. Additionally, he is an art professor at the Maryland Institute College of Art. Coloring work includes Young X-Men, Crossing Midnight, and Halo Uprising. Jose Villarrubia (coloring) is an Eisner Award-nominated colorist who has worked for every major comic book publisher. He studied at the International School of Comics in Florence. He lives in Atlanta, Georgia.Īttila Futaki (pencils and inks) has illustrated Sprial (Editions Carabas, June 2008) and the forthcoming The Strange Folks (2010), as well as a number of book covers and interiors. In addition to creating comics, he works at Top Shelf Productions. Robert Venditti (is the creator and author of The Surrogates and its prequel, The Surrogates: Flesh and Bone. He lives in San Antonio, Texas, with his wife and two sons. His previous novels for adults include the hugely popular Tres Navarre series, winner of the top three awards in the mystery genre.
Rick Riordan (is the author of The Kane Chronicles, Book One: The Red Pyramid as well as all the books in the New York Times best-selling Percy Jackson and the Olympians series : The Lightning Thief The Sea of Monsters The Titan's Curse The Battle of the Labyrinth and The Last Olympian.