ALL-ACTION CLASSICS NO. 3: THE ODYSSEY. By Homer, Tim Mucci, Ben Caldwell, Rick Lacy, Emmanuel Tenderini. Sterling, 2009. 128 pages.
At first, the illustrative style and the lettering of this comic book adaptation put me off. Too weird and busy. Like listening to a stranger's voice where tone and accent take some effort to get past, though, once I got into it, the 'All-Action Classic' started working for me. Eventually, I completely forgot I had thought the presentation hard to decipher, and the story began to carry me along.
Tim Mucci does a skilled turn here at collapsing many events into minimal space, touching on almost all the major episodes of Odysseus's long journey back to Ithaca.
An ideal way to introduce young readers to Homer, if they can accept the idiosyncratic graphics of Ben Caldwell and company. Recommended for fifth graders up, who might be seeking some context for Percy Jackson and his cohorts.
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