Here we come!

James Ninness here.  WonderCon is tomorrow and Semantink is headed  for San Francisco!  Once there, we’ll be giving away some very pretty cards for all WonderCon attendees that give them not only the link to the MYTHOI Birth Series (which has, and always will be, free), but as a special treat, a secret link to a site where they can see issue #1 of MYTHOI proper — absolutely free!  To get the ball rolling, Semantink will be giving you a sneak peak at the character cards they’ve put together each day with a look into the characters themselves, written by your’s truly.  Today we gander at the most recently released character of the MYTHOI Birth series: Taros!

Greek mythology has been done and done and done and done again.  This weekend Louis Leterrier is unleashing Clash of the Titans, a movie remaking a movie retelling a myth (which I can’t f*cking wait to see).  Before that some brat names Percy Jackson fought a Lightning Thief in attempt to cash in on the kid-with-powers-caught-in-a-deadly-game franchise, rebooted a few years back by Harry Potter.  One of the most fascinating things about Greek mythology, and the reason we see it again and again, is that more often than not these tales were created to explain things through allegory or drawn-out metaphor.  Icarus taught us all the dangers of loftiness.  Achilles showed us that everyone is fallible.  In the process of explanation, the Ancient Greeks created a world more fully realized than any to come for generations.

Taros is my own personal nod to, what I consider, the greatest series in the history of man: Ancient Greek Mythology.  Taros has daddy issues, huge ones (which you, my good friend, can read about for FREE right here).  Taros has to live forever and it is important that you realize he doesn’t want to.  More than anything else Taros would like to join his wife and mother in the afterlife, but that can happen because his father is kind of an asshole.  Over time Taros has made quite a life out of living forever: He runs the largest, most successful technologies company in the world and wants for nothing — except an end.  Taros’s tale is not morose and depressing, but enlightening.  His is a story of the value of human life and making a difference despite one’s self.  It is an attempt at the explanation, as the myths of his people were long ago, of something beyond understanding and greater than human potential can fathom without becoming more than human — but isn’t that what all the greatest mythologies try to explain?  The unexplainable?

Thanks for dropping in.  Now go be awesome.

James Ninness