Oedi (Dreadstar)
| Metamorphosis Odyssey | |||
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The Price graphic novel, the second section of Metamorphosis Odyssey.
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| Created by | Jim Starlin | ||
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| Publisher | Epic Comics | ||
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| Formats | Original material for the series has been published as a strip in the comics anthology(s) Epic Illustrated and a set of ongoing series and graphic novels. | ||
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| Publication date | 1980 | ||
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| Writer(s) | Jim Starlin | ||
| Artist(s) | Jim Starlin | ||
| Creator(s) | Jim Starlin | ||
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| Volume 1: The Metamorphosis Odyssey | ISBN | ||
| Volume 2: The Price | ISBN | ||
| Volume 3: Plan M | ISBN | ||
| Volume 4: The Secret of Z | ISBN | ||
The Metamorphosis Odyssey is a lengthy allegorical story told in several distinct parts in several formats, from illustrated magazines to graphic novels to comic books. The work of American writer/artist Jim Starlin, the story introduces Vanth Dreadstar, who first appears in Epic Illustrated #3.
The first part of the Metamorphosis Odyssey was printed in the premier issue of Epic Illustrated magazine, which was published in the Spring of 1980. The story was told in fourteen chapters and continued through the first nine issues of Epic Illustrated, climaxing in the December 1981 issue. The stories were initially in black and white but later transitioned into full color. The story continues in two graphic novels and finally a long running comicbook series.
The story begins with an immortal mystic named Aknaton, whose Osirosian race was the ancestor of all humanoid life in the Milky Way galaxy. The Osirosians were faced with a terrible threat, a race of destroying conquerors known as the Zygoteans. The Osirosians massed their power and confronted the Zygoteans directly, but failed to defeat them. The Osirosians withdrew to their heavily guarded world and considered other ways to stop the Zygotean menace.
As the Zygotean power only grew, and the Zygoteans conquered, enslaved, and exterminated more and more of the Milky Way, the Osirosians eventually concluded that they were not capable of stopping the Zygoteans, and that therefore the Milky Way was doomed to a long, slow, horrible death. The Osirosians, unwilling to let the Milky Way be slowly strangled by the Zygoteans, evolved a plan to destroy the Zygoteans, whatever the cost. Running the Zygotean blockade of his homeworld, Aknaton set various events in motion to mature over time into the elements he needed for their final plan. The most important actions he took were:
Having done all these things, he returned to his homeworld and waited for the last stand. The Osirosians held out for a hundred thousand years, but in the end the Zygoteans overcame their defenses and destroyed them. Armed with all his race's power and his plan, Aknaton escaped, the only survivor.
Aknaton returned to the worlds he had visited a hundred thousand years previously, taking a single native from each one to fulfill their part in the plan: Za, the first of his cannibal race to achieve intelligence; Juliet, a fifteen-year-old girl from Kansas; and Whis'Par, the culmination of the artificial life Aknaton had created on the forest world.
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