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Monday, January 23, 2012

Monday, January 23, 2012 12:20 am by M. in ,    No comments
The recent release of the comic book Mythoi Book II: Where the Circle Begins (Art by Jed Soriano & Brian Soriano. Written by James Ninness) is a good excuse to mention that this comic series contains an explicit Wuthering Heights reference. Quoting from the wikipedia:
MYTHOI is a sixty-issue American comic book limited series by writer/creator James Ninness. It was published in 2010 by the Semantink Publishing. Single issues of MYTHOI are released digitally with trades collecting every six issues printed as the issues are completed.
The story follows the journey of five figures from different mythologies as they attempt to save the world from an ominous foe. The group consists "Vito", a child vampire, "Taros", son of the Greek god Ares, "Yuki", a yūrei, "Wiglaf", son of the Cain and heir to Beowulf, and "Touch", a cybernetic assassin from the future. As the five heroes are brought together under varying circumstance, they must learn to work and live together despite their differences. Each character possesses a different set of skills, specific to their root mythology and eventual destiny. 
The Panels on Pages review gives us clues of another (familiar) character:
The recipe for Mythoi is simple but ingenious – take the supporting characters from ancient lore and put them in the sandbox of the modern world. The result is something like Ultimates meets Fables, where the son of Ares (yes, Greek god of war, Ares) is brought in to investigate an attack on the President by a pack of werewolves led by Heathcliff (of Wuthering Heights, not the one who ran afoul of the junkyard cats) under the employ of – no, that would be telling. The point is, it’s a fantastic cacophony of fantastic characters brought together by fate in the form of writer James Michael Ninness. The story takes some fun twists and turns as it unfolds, and by the end of Book II, the scene is fairly well set for these characters and their future together.  (Jason Kerouac)
The author, James Ninness, says in this interview on Has Boobs, Reads Comics:
For a special story added to the TPB, Ninness and his Editor Benjamin Glibert knew they needed something a little different. “For Heathcliff and Catherine I wanted to do something more in the vein of Chaucer’s Canterbury Tales. It felt write for the setting of the story and the design lends itself well the comic book form,” he said. (Nerdy Bird)

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