After just more than a year of publishing, Things Change: The Metamorphoses Comic by Derik Badman, has finished up Book Two. Through the course of Book Two, myths such as the stories of Phaethon, Europa, and The Raven were loosely adapted into short stories using a variety of styles and genres. Now is a good time for 65 straight pages of content (106 is you missed the Prologue and Book One).

Things Change: The Metamorphoses Comic, my twice weekly webcomic, has just wrapped up Book One. In just under 40 strips, taking a cue from Ovid's epic of myth, I recreated the myths of Ages of Man, The Flood, Deucalion and Pyrrha, Apollo and Daphne, and Jove and Io in a rather obscured way -- not direct recreations but borrowings and transformations of the original material. Book Two starts this Sunday with the story of Phaethon. The original Metamorphoses has 15 books, so I've got some ways to go. You can start reading the first page here.

Since I never see it mentioned around here, I wanted to point out the slew of beautiful abstract comics that Andrei Molotiu has been posting on his BlotComics blog.

Molotiu combines the comics form with the design and style of abstract painting. Amorphous shapes that hint at something more seem to move and undulate across panels.

Following the ending of the 52 episode webcomic, Maroon, Derik A Badman launched his new webcomic Things Change: The Metamorphoses Comic. The introduction to the comic reads:

To write Things Change I’m using Ovid’s Metamorphoses–in a few translations though mostly the translation by Horace Gregory (because it is a pocket paperback and is easy to take with me for reference and rereading) with supplemental reading of the Allen Mandelbaum translation (the version I first read of the poem)–as a generative text. I am not directly adapting Ovid’s work, rather I am using his stories as a jumping off point for characters, events, themes, images, words, or whatever else seems useful for the particular story. You probably won’t see gods and goddesses or mythical monsters (at least not in an obvious sense), but certainly the theme of change will be prevalent (hence the title).