Lore Olympus: Volume Eight

Scandalous gossip, wild parties, and forbidden love-the Greek tale of Hades and Persephone gets a romantic modern update in the gorgeously illustrated, Eisner Award-winning Lore Olympus, including a brand new bonus short story!"You have no authority here."Revelations rock Olympus as Persephone's trial ends, threatening to throw the gods into anew war. Though Persephone and Hades become closer than ever after she opens up to him aboutall she has endured, their peace is shattered when another truth is revealed: Apollo isZeus's son. The announcement shocks the pantheon, and the king of the gods realizes thatthe would-be usurper wants Persephone's power to take the throne. Zeus banishes Persephone to the Mortal Realm and, out of fear, cuts it off entirely fromthe rest of the gods. This decree succeeds in undercutting Apollo's plan, but alsoinadvertently begins a decade-long divine cold war when Hades strikes back byshuttering the Underworld. With the gods scattered and weakened, Kronos uses theensuing bedlam to finally escape his imprisonment and begin staging his own coup. Persephone has only one choice when she discovers all the realms on the verge ofcollapse: Descend into the Underworld to try to defeat the power-hungry Titan, claim herrightful place as queen, and reunite with her one true love. This edition of Smythe's original Eisner Award-winning webcomic LoreOlympus features a brand-new, exclusive short story from creator Rachel Smythe andbrings the Greek pantheon into the modern age in a sharply perceptive and romanticgraphic novel. This volume collects episodes 180-206 of the #1 WEBTOON comic Lore Olympus.