Dread Gods

Dread Gods #1-4

by Ron Marz, Tom Raney (Illustrator)

In a post-apocalyptic landscape, the population plugs into daily entertainment provided by the Prometheus conglomerate, featuring god-like heroes led by Zeus and Hera.

In their bucolic paradise, the gods live glorious lives of adventure and romance, but Zeus is troubled by strange dreams, even as his long-simmering feud with Hades is about to boil over. Meanwhile, in the barren Wasteland, a wheelchair-bound man named Carver comes to believe the gods are in danger, and must be saved.

Genres: Comics

120 pages, Paperback

First published January 8, 2019

About the author

Marz is well known for his work on Silver Surfer and Green Lantern, as well as the Marvel vs DC crossover and Batman/Aliens. He also worked on the CrossGen Comics series Scion, Mystic, Sojourn, and The Path. At Dark Horse Comics he created Samurai: Heaven and Earth and various Star Wars comics. He has also done work for Devil’s Due Publishing’s Aftermath line, namely Blade of Kumori. In 1995, he had a brief run on XO-Manowar, for Valiant Comics.

Marz’s more recent works includes a number of Top Cow books including Witchblade and a Cyberforce relaunch. For DC Comics, he has written Ion, a 12 part comic book miniseries that followed the Kyle Rayner character after the One Year Later event, and Tales of the Sinistro Corps Presents: Parallax and Tales of the Sinestro Corps Presents: Ion, two one-shot tie-ins to the Green Lantern crossover, The Sinestro Corps War.

His current creator owned projects include “Dragon Prince” (Top Cow) and “Samurai : Heaven and Earth” (Dark Horse).

Photo by Luigi Novi.

Reviews

[Francesca Giardiello · Rating 2 out of 5]

Inizio ben ideato, storia scorrevole (sebbene la parte nel sogno sia lunghetta e le venga data troppa importanza), ma il tutto finisce interrompendosi, senza permettere di avere una parvenza vera e propria, il che rende questa lettura, purtroppo, una perdita di tempo.

[David · Rating 3 out of 5]

This is kind of interesting. In a post apocalyptic future a shattered but still stratified society has grown some godlike mutant humans in vats and is using them for entertainment. Why not use them for world domination? That opening premise is a little weak. Of course the gods escape and by the end of the volume are set up to oppose their weird plutocrat captor in a battle over the ruins of the earth. I may read volume 2, but I'm not in a hurry to get to it.

The dialogue is what brought this down for me. The gods are ridiculously cheesy and the other characters are a little stiff. None of the dialogue feels completely natural.

The art is good, but nothing to write home about.

[Midu Hadi · Rating 2 out of 5]

So, the series opens on a post-apocalyptic world where there isn’t much of anything to go around. Then the reader crosses over to the heavens where we see all the Greek deities who live on Mount Olympus — except Hades who resides in the Underworld — battling and defeating a Hydra. But then we are brought back to the crumbling world where we discover people can plug into machines that create life-like experiences with the gods that the person plugged in can feel first-hand. For the last twist, we are shown that the gods may be entertainment but that doesn’t mean they aren’t real! Got your attention, didn’t it? It did the same for me!