#the netflix show gave us Calliope and now I really want to see their version of this issue

[cana--merula]

The last few panels in The Song of Orpheus, Chapter Three, when Orpheus turns around, are just so good in showing his emotions. I have been obsessed with greek myths since my early teen years, for more than ten years now. I've read countless different retellings of this story and listened to Hadestown about a hundred times. And it's true what they say in the musical: you know where this story is going, you know how it is going to end, but you sing it even so. And I will probably never stop seaking out new versions of this tale.

After Hadestown I thought (musical) theatre was the best medium for this tragedy, but of course Neil Gaiman, Bryan Talbot and Mark Buckingham can make it work in a comic. Looking at that last page, I feel Orpheus despair as much as I do every other time I encounter this myth. Because just for one second, every time, I imagine that it will work out this time. This story tells as much about hope and humanity in the reaction of the reader/viewer than it does in the text.