The action is told mostly in pictures, with word balloons for speech and just a little bit of extra narration. Oedipus : Trapped by Destiny is part of TOON books’ easy-to-read comics series, designed to help readers enjoy the story. Still, this highly educational book gets readers ready to watch Sophocles’ most famous play, so it isn’t for sensitive readers. It’s a challenging story to tell in a comic form, but Pommaux does it tastefully, with just a little bit of blood splashed about and the occasional skeleton. Author Yvan Pommaux tells the whole myth of Oedipus, from the terrible oracle that drives his father to abandon him to his tragic attempts to escape his terrible fate. In a word balloon, one says “Tell us the worst, the most horrible of all your stories.” That is a very good way to start the story of Oedipus. At the very beginning of this book, before this story starts, there is a drawing of two modern children asking their grandpa for a story.
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