{"id":11050,"date":"2026-07-30T10:30:00","date_gmt":"2026-07-30T17:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/plugoarts.com\/blog\/?p=11050"},"modified":"2026-07-30T10:30:00","modified_gmt":"2026-07-30T17:30:00","slug":"discussing-the-odyssey","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/plugoarts.com\/blog\/discussing-the-odyssey\/","title":{"rendered":"Discussing The Odyssey"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

I just had the privilege of discussing Christopher Nolan\u2019s THE ODYSSEY with my friend & colleague- Lex Farjado the genius behind Kid Beowulf and this Summer\u2019s comic annual Kid Beowulf\u2019s Odyssey<\/a><\/em> – currently on Kickstarter <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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This video is part of a larger conversation breaking down what did & didn\u2019t work in from a cartoonists\u2019 \/ Classics Major P.O.V.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

See the whole discussion on Patreon.com<\/h1>\n\n\n\n
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Christopher Nolan\u2019s Odysseus may have survived the Cyclops but can he survive the scrutiny of two cartoonists who grew up reading Homer\u2019s epic? <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":11047,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"jetpack_seo_schema_type":"","_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[21,16,287],"tags":[150,200,190,119,70,145,69,541,147],"class_list":["post-11050","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-blog","category-movies","category-patreon","tag-blog","tag-interview","tag-kickstarter","tag-movie-review","tag-movies","tag-mythology","tag-reviews","tag-the-odyssey","tag-video"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p3egHU-2Se","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":11027,"url":"https:\/\/plugoarts.com\/blog\/reviewing-the-odyssey\/","url_meta":{"origin":11050,"position":0},"title":"Reviewing THE ODYSSEY","author":"PL\u016bG\u014d arts","date":"July 17, 2026","format":false,"excerpt":"It\u2019s Official: my review of C. 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