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Les premières pages rendent bien comptent de l'ambition du projet et l'idée d'utiliser les vases (et de les multiplier) pour rendre compte du récit des violences envers les femmes inscrit non seulement la BD dans un contexte historique/mythologique, mais donne une superbe mise en abyme aussi.

Ce n'est qu'un premier volume, mais le récit est vraiment incroyable, beaucoup beaucoup d'attention est déjà mis sur les différents personnages et les illustrations sont vraiment vraiment incroyables, épiques et rendent vraiment bien l'aspect mythologique et cosmologique de l'entreprise.Įn fait, je peux difficilement rendre justice au travail du dessin (et la version papier aussi puisqu'il y a de nombreuses double pages et le centre de l'image s'avère souvent un peu perdu même en aplatissant au maximum la BD). Une histoire qui s'annonce assez fantastique puisqu'on raconte la genèse des Amazones en s'appuyant très fortement sur la mythologie avec la présences des Déesses Héra, Hestia, Artémis, Démeter, Hécate, Aphrodite et Athéna qui créent les Amazones suite à leur indignation face aux violences envers les femmes.

This is definitely one I have to hunt down and own in print! (Though one thought kept popping up in my head: since these are goddesses representing the female aspects of life, why is Hera surrounded by male peacocks and Artemis and her Amazons wear stags' antlers? I mean, sure, the female animals usually don't look as impressive as the male ones but still.)Ī brilliant piece of art and book 2 has been out for a short while so I'll be getting that next. It must be some of if not THE best artwork I've EVER seen in a comic / graphic novel: What also is breathtaking about this comic is the glorious artwork. Heartbreaking because it is true and while I do see and my heart breaks for all the male victims, looking at where we are today - yes, especially in light of last week's ruling by that joke that calls itself the US Supreme Court - the institutionalized version of marginalization is definitely stacked against women. Here, the groundwork is laid and it was heartbreaking.

Why Hera hasn't joined them and what it all has to do with a female baby that is supposed to be left in the wold because her family can't afford another daughter, we'll find out in the subsequent books, I guess. So all except Hera meet in secret and hatch a plan that births the first Amazons. And it's not like they have been treated any better by the male gods of the Olymp.Ĭase in point, when they take their case to Zeus, guess how that goes. The goddesses of the Olymp have had enough of the cruelty against and marginalisation of women that they had to witness throughout history. My god(desse)s! This is a thing of utter beauty!