The artist’s use of color is especially striking: His battle scenes are ample, bloodily scarlet affairs, and Polyphemus’s cave is a stifling orange he depicts the underworld as a colorless, mirthless void, domestic spaces in warm tans, the all-encircling sea in a light Mediterranean blue and some of the far-away islands in almost tangibly growing greens. Lush watercolors move with fluid lines throughout this reimagining. Gods mingle with the mortals, and not heeding their warnings could lead to quick danger being mere men, Odysseus and his crew often make hasty errors in judgment and must face challenging consequences. Following Odysseus’s journey to return home to his beloved wife, Penelope, readers are transported into a world that easily combines the realistic and the fantastic. Hinds adds another magnificent adaptation to his oeuvre ( King Lear, 2009, etc.) with this stunning graphic retelling of Homer’s epic. This folktale fantasy will not disappoint. Readers should begin with the first installment to fully appreciate this entry. Once again Cho artfully balances Korean-inspired folktales, K-drama motifs, emotionally complex characters, and unpredictable plot twists. The quickly evolving narrative engages the characters in battles against supernatural beings as well as confrontations with ghosts of their pasts, both literal and figurative.
The familiar crew-Miyoung, Jihoon, Junu, and Somin-plot to retrieve the soul bead, but this time it is Junu and tough-girl Somin who take the lead. Junu is given seven days to fix things and restore balance before the reaper does. He hints that the tear is possibly related to Miyoung and the soul bead she lost. Hyuk, who is a reaper, speaks of a mysterious connection between the worlds of the living and the dead-a tear that allows ghosts and malevolent spirits to visit Earth. Meanwhile Miyoung’s reluctant goblin ally, Junu, gets a visitor of his own. But lately Yena has been haunting her dreams, cryptically speaking of the threat of a powerful enemy and lamenting that she did not adequately prepare her daughter. Half-human/half-gumiho (Korean fox demon) Miyoung recently lost her mother, Yena. When danger lurks from beyond the grave, supporting characters find themselves in the limelight in this enthralling sequel to Wicked Fox (2019).
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