The Comic Strip Odyssey

Given the contribution of Homer, or whatever tradition of storytelling that name stood for, to this book, it could hardly fail to provide readers with some excitement and enjoyment. Redmond and Kingsland have done a commendable job in providing access to the legend for those children unwilling or unable to tackle extended text. Several readers in the class I showed it to expressed a keen interest. However, I felt the tradition of comic art might have made something more striking out of Odysseus' excursion into Hell and other holes. This great saga of survival, comradeship, defeat and triumph, with its deities, monsters, heroes and enchantresses, cries out for all the reprehensible excesses of the horror mag. This restrained treatment denies us a surfeit of wholesome schlock.