So, Hades and Demeter strike up a deal that Persephone will spend either a half or a third of the year (depending on your source material) in the underworld, and the other portion in the upper world. Demeter finds her daughter, but Persephone has eaten a pomegranate seed from the underworld and the rule is once you eat something from the realm of the underworld, you can’t leave. In some versions, Zeus gives permission for the abduction… During her abduction, Demeter is going crazy looking for her, and enlists the help of a number of gods (including Helios, sometimes Hermes and Hecate who gives her torches to help find Persephone). Persephone is the goddess of spring, but one day she is abducted by Hades (the god of the underworld) who has fallen in love with her when he saw her picking flowers in a meadow, and eventually becomes the queen of the underworld and wife of Hades. Persephone (initially known as Kore) is the daughter of the Olympian goddess of Agriculture, Demeter. Okay, lets start with a recap on the myth of Persephone and Hades (remember, there are a bunch of different sources all with contradictory information, this is just a quick rundown of the general myth).
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If anything, the illustrations are very static - vague pictures drawn to the dialogue rather than the other way around. There is a lot of dialogue here - and it is that talk which furthers the story much more than the illustrations. It is up to Alyss' wits and her friends' skills to keep Wondertropolis from being overrun by Boarderlanders. Story: In a series of interconnected stories, Alyss's instability on the throne shows through assassination attempts, a mission to Victorian London, and a large scale invasion. Perhaps the best summation is that (and here is the irony for a graphic novel), we're given all tell and no show. But this story was so inert, suffering from both shallow characterizations and a rather trite plot. I love steampunk and certainly enjoy a good urban fantasy or re imagination of a classic. More reviews (and no fluff) on the blog around the middle of Crossfire, I began to realize that I just wasn't caring about either the characters or the plot. 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