#mythology webtoon

[ryebread-x]

I noticed a discussion started by @bugwolfsstuff about Lore Olympus and Loki Lord of Chaos(two webcomics I don't particularly like as well due to both being pretty poor portrayals of Norse and Greek mythology). However, there is one webtoon comic I want to talk about in a more positive light, but I felt it would be off-topic, so I'm going to make a separate post for it.

That comic is Mythos Redone by Gonzalez and Liss . Unlike the other two comics, it focuses on all the pantheons (though mainly Greek,Norse,and Egyptian). While it isn't completely accurate to the actual myths, it's made clear by the title that the comic isn't going to be a complete accurate portrayal.

The comic follows an artist named Paige, and a demon named Anthemion who makes a deal with her to give her powers in exchange for her emotions so she can make art.They then slowly start to catch feelings for eachother. Making the main couple two original characters who are connected to the gods rather than it being an actual couple from mythology. Which I like because then their personalities feel more original because they are their own characters . Opposed to taking a mythological couple doing a complete personality switch with them(which is fine on it's own but it's excuted poorly most of the time).

This comic is also one of the only versions of Hades and Persephone I like(and that's saying a lot because I don't like a lot of adaptations of Hades and Persephone). While they still are romantic in the comic, Demeter for once isn't portrayed as overbearing or controlling. All the myths are mostly being retold from Anthemion point of view as well. Demeter is portrayed as just being worried for her kids rather than overbearing.

I like how the relationships are portrayed in this as well. Some of them are non canonical to the myths such as Nyx and Gaia, who are Anthemion's moms. While Aphrodite and Hephaestus are portrayed as more health in this comic, they aren't end game but stay on good terms.

Anthemion also got with a few of the gods from different pantheons before meeting Paige as well.

However, there is one downside to this comic being while Loki is in this comic, and major side character, he isn't with Sigyn. He's with a completely different figure from mythology. However, I did see in the comments that it was confirmed by one of the creators that Loki and Sigyn were together, but they got divorced. Whether on good terms or not is unclear, but she isn't completely erased from the comic as far as I know. Updates are pretty slow, but art takes time, and she could possibly appear in a flashback since Norse mythology hasn't really been covered yet.

That one downside aside, it's still a pretty good read . The art style is beautiful, and the designs are well done as well. It also has its own original story while still including the myths and the gods as somewhat side characters/stories. Again, I don't want to spoil too much, but it's a good webcomic, none the less.

[arraunean]

PART 1 . I really love how dramatic Odysseus and Poseidon's encounter is in Epic 🌊

I wanted to see how a musical would look adapted into a comic...So part 2 will come out very soon 👀

[secondlina]

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[kailysander]

Cephalophore

[ephemeral-roses]

Desire for Peace Webcomic

Look! He even has his goatee!

I was looking back at Hermes' myths, and I forgot how head over heels he was for Pan when he was born until now. Pan was abandoned by his mother, but Hermes was all giddy and excited from how cute he thought Pan was that he immediately wrapped him up and brought him back to Olympus to show him off.

I do imagine raising him was quite the experience; Pan constantly trying to headbutt Hermes, eat everything in sight including clothes, climbing up cliff walls, and more goat things. But Hermes adored him regardless.

[xypheris]

Hades: Persephone, please stop trying to adopt Cerberus' heads. They're all the same dog. Persephone: No, this one's Gregory, and he has anxiety.

[sigeel]

sneks say nope XDD

[amphitriteswife]

💐Persephone in different universes💐

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[nyxenthusiast]

Nyx in different media!!

Hades game

Gods School

Percy Jackson

Lore Olympus

Punderworld

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[sugardells]

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[fabuloustrash05]

I don’t know if this is a hot take or not, but I dislike it when in modern Greek myth retellings nowadays there’s a side plot of Hera having an affair with one of Zeus’ brothers, Hades or Poseidon.

Webtoon’s Lore Olympus and Netflix’s series Kaos have both done this and I’m already tired of it.

[genericpuff]

I wonder why christian misrepresentation are rarely talked about if compared to other religion misrepresentation. Like, I've seen people really vocal about Greek myths misrepresentation in LO and such (and it's valid because it's a culture and religion) but I rarely saw the same thing with christian even though there are many media who use christian religion innacurately, to the point where it comes off as using it as an aesthetic and not a proper religion.

Is it because of rampant religious trauma especially in western world? No ulterior motives on this question. I'm not a christian and yet I'm curious about this. I apologize if this sounds harsh.

I obviously don't have The Answer(tm) to this but personally speaking (and I'm about to get VERY personal here so take this with MOUNTAINS OF SALT), I think it's just the obvious - Christian mythology is one of the most well-documented and strongly protected out of virtually any other religion on the planet. Especially here in the West, it's commonplace for kids to go to Sunday school, for couples to have Christian weddings even if they're not practising Christians themselves, even the American anthem references the Christian God. It's simply not as easy to 'misrepresent' it because the representation is written into our very fabric of society. Even Greece itself is primarily made up of Orthodox Christians.

So anyone that does 'misrepresent' it are either completely mislead hardcore Christians, or people who are doing it intentionally, such as with the intent to make a parody of it or to deconstruct it through a different context or whatever have you. And of course, people will still get mad at those things, if you're implying that people aren't vocal about Christian misrepresentation then frankly IDK what to tell you there LOL If you want a contextual example in the realm of webtoons, Religiously Gay was dragged to hell and back during its launch for having a very crude and insulting depiction of St. Michael, and frankly, yeah I don't disagree because what the fuck is this-

(like at best it's just terrible character design lmao that said, there's also plenty else to criticize Religiously Gay for, including its fetishy representation of gay relationships and the fact that it's still just the "naive person who looks and acts like a child hooks up with mean person in a position of power" trope, blech, but the character design is definitely the first thing you notice)

There are even plenty of hardcore Christians who will deadass claim "misrepresentation" over things that ARE factually correct but they just haven't read the actual Bible and simply cherry pick what works for their own agenda. And of course those people are routinely called out by people like myself who know for a fact that Jesus wouldn't have promoted the war crimes that many modern day Christians are committing and justifying today. So it really depends on the definition of "misrepresentation" here.

The issue specifically with LO and Rachel that I personally call her out for (and many others) is that she's called herself a "folklorist" and claimed she's so much more knowledgeable on Greek myth than anyone else, while making a complete mockery of the original mythologies while not being honest about her intent as to whether LO is actually supposed to be a legitimate retelling OR a parody (because it sure acts like the latter more than the former, but she still seems to expect us to take it seriously and consider her knowledge of Greek myth superior?) Which leads to a lot of her teenage audience claiming shit like "Persephone went down to the underworld willingly" and "Apollo did assault Persephone in the original myths actually" and the classic "why would Lore Olympus lie or make up fake myths?"

You just can't pull off this extent of erasure with Christian mythology because we have a whole ass book of it that's been preserved, sold on shelves, and systematically integrated into society for thousands of years. Of course, there are people who will still try their damned best to twist the Bible to match their own bigotry with the whole "Jesus hates gays" bullshit (he would never), but it's met with equal amounts of 'misrepresentation' that are actually fully well-read and are intentionally subverting and changing things to either critique, parody, or restore the original intent of a lot of stories in the Bible without all the manufactured right-wing crap.

Greek myth, on the other hand, has some stories that are well preserved, and others, not so much. And in the modern day outside of the poems and hymns, you'll also rarely, if ever, see anyone use stories from Greek myth to ostracize, torture, and murder other people. "Misrepresenting Christianity" is more often done by actual Christians who are using the Bible to commit hate crimes than the people who have actually read the Bible and are just taking creative liberties with it for the sake of deconstructing / parodying / analyzing / subverting it. Veggie Tales "misrepresents" Christian stories because obviously Moses wasn't a fucking cucumber lmao but it still accomplishes its goal by retelling Christian stories in a way that's fun and educational for children.

By comparison (on the whole, I'm not comparing LO to Veggie Tales LMAO) LO just isn't clear in its intentions beyond Rachel's initial statements that she was trying to "deconstruct" the myths, while labelling herself as a folklorist. Therefore, I'm going to criticize how she does it because the way she's done it up until now has been very mishandled and has resulted in a lot of misinterpretations of the myths simply for the sake of fandom. And yes, these people exist in Christian media as well - they're called TV evangelists.

And that's my (very heavy) two cents.

[kailysander]

Adam & Eve

[ephemeral-roses]

Desire for Peace Webcomic

I'm not the strongest guy out there, so I don't think I can bring myself to finish this. Drawing Dionysus is already a pain.

I've been seeing people make versions of Dionysus where he either didn't tell Theseus to leave Ariadne behind and Theseus did it on his own, or that he did tell him, because he knew Theseus wasn't a great guy. I want to let everyone know that DFP Dionysus most definitely told Theseus to leave Ariadne behind. Not because he could sense he wasn't a great person, or that he didn't want him in the way of getting with Ariadne, but because he thought it would be dramatic to have the hero of the story abandon her, as the god of theater and this version of him being disconnected from reality. DFP Dionysus' madness is a very prominent characteristic about him. And my gods are still questionable people, I mean, Hermes killed a tortoise when he was a baby, steals stuff, killed a guy in his sleep, and what not. He's a hardened criminal.

[luchia-a]

Eris,

Goddess of Discord

Mother of Harpies

[xypheris]

Hermes: I could steal anything. Apollo: You couldn’t steal my pride. Hermes: Already did. I’ve got it in my bag. It’s right next to Zeus’s dignity.