Zeus

Book cover of Zeus: King of the Gods

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George O'Connor is a Greek mythology buff and a classic superhero comics fan, and he's out to remind us how much our pantheon of superheroes (Superman, Batman, the X-Men, etc) owes to mankind's ORIGINAL superheroes: the Greek pantheon.

In Olympians, O'Connor draws from primary documents to reconstruct and retell classic…

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1 author picked Zeus as one of their favorite books. Why do they recommend it?

James L. Fitzsimmons

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My kid loves this graphic novel series because of its accurate, imaginative portrayal of the Greek gods. There are various levels of adult themes in Zeus and its successors, but the author manages (for the most part) to present them in ways that scale with the age of the reader.

From James' 9-year-old's 3 favorite reads in 2023.