In this strategic board game two players struggle to win with the assistance of the ancient Viking gods With the superior power of Odion the wit of Loki & the strengths of eight other gods the players aim to place three tokens in the enemy fort Ages 10 Players 2 Playing time 20 minutes ...

Horrible Geography takes you under the sea with Odious Oceans Discover where in the world you can tuck into a poisonous pufferfish spot some perilous pirates & explore the savage seabed! Filled with hilarious illustrations by Mike Phillips Horrible Geography is the perfect escapism from miserable maps rotten rock piles & dire diagrams Hold tight! ...

ODY-C modeled after Homer&s Odyssey is a psychedelic gender-broke science-fiction epic that tells the story of three legendary warrior-queens returning home after a centuries-long battle Odyssia of fair Ithicaa encounters everything that can get in her way & slow her homecoming — & realizes with dawning horror that maybe she doesn&t want to return Queen Ene she who rules the universe reclaims her husband He of Troiia only to find herself trapped in a place where even the Goddesses cannot see — a secret world of men gone mad & as for Queen Gamem she has a date with her lovelorn wife & a warm bath of her own blood Told in verse with a visual sensibility that redefines the very possibilities of the comics medium this gloriously oversized hardcover collects issues 1-12 plus exclusive bonus materials including essays by classicist Dani Colman teaching aids & a massive ten-page fold-out only available in the sold-out first issue Meet the Author Matt Fraction started creating comics with the smaller publishers like Ai T Planet Lar & IDW Publishing He is also known for his work on The Five Fists of Science & Casanova as well as a number of series for Marvel Comics Fraction is currently working on Marvel&s Uncanny X-Men Thor & Invincible Iron Man the latter of which led to his consulting work on the set of the film Iron Man 2 He lives in Portland OR ...

THE HEAVIEST TRIP IS THE ONE BACK HOME Lose yourself in an epic twenty-six centuries in the making Featuring art from the genderbent science fiction comic ODY-C by MATT FRACTION (CASANOVA SEX CRIMINALS SATELLITE SAM)and CHRISTIAN WARD (INFINITE VACATION OLYMPUS) this interactive activity book takes you on a feverishly eye-popping journey rendered in lavish psychedelic pen-&-ink illustrations — all waiting to be brought to life through color ...

An eye-searing mind-bending gender-shattering epic science fiction retelling of Homer&s Odyssey starting with the end of a great war in the stars & the beginning of a very long journey home for Odyssia & her crew of warriors The journey to Ithicaa begins HERE by Matt Fraction (Sex Criminals) & Christian Ward (Infinite Vacation Olympus) by Christian Ward Matt Fraction More from this Author Infinite Vacation Deluxe Antistar Olympus ...

Please note this is a region 2 DVD & will require a region 2 (Europe) or region Free DVD Player in order to play Troy has been defeated & Odysseus has begun his 10 year journey to return home to Ithaca Accompanying Odysseus & his small team is the poet Homer who is acting as the scribe & recording Odysseus& adventures as they travel along The story about to unfold is so horrifying that Homer decided to leave it out of his Odyssey During their travels they become lost in a deep fog & encounter horrific winged creatures that kill several men & drink their blood In disarray the crew lands at the Isle of the Mists a terrible place where death is in the very air Eventually they become imprisoned by Persephone Queen of the Underworld who was banished to the Isle of the Mists & sealed there by the Hellfire Now the men must find a way of killing her & escape the island before she is freed to enslave humanity ...

Most people have heard of Odysseus from Homer's Odyssey but few know who he was or where he came from or what part he played in the Trojan War In this sixth Put it in Your Pocket booklet his cunning & heroism are described as are the adventures he experienced on his homeward journey each one testing his strength & endurance to their limit ...

It's 1985 Twenty-two-year-old Ananda has been a student in London for two years practicing at being a poet He's homesick thinks of himself as an inveterate outsider & yet he can't help feeling that there is something romantic about his isolation His uncle Radhesh is a magnificent failure & an eccentric virgin who has lived in genteel impoverishment in Hampstead for nearly three decades Over the course of one day we follow Ananda & Radhesh on one of their weekly forays about town Weaving back & forth in time Chaudhuri gradually reveals the background to the two men's lives with deft precision & humour as they walk through London together circling around their respective pasts & futures & finding in one another an unspoken solace Written in a voice that is tender wry & unsentimental -Odysseus Abroad is a lyrical & modern exploration of loneliness & failure
- as well as a love letter to Homer & Joyce
- by one of our most celebrated writers

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Please note this is a region 2 DVD & will require a region 2 (Europe) or region Free DVD Player in order to play All 14 episodes from the first season of the American thriller series starring Anna Friel as Sergeant Odelle Ballard a member of the US Army&s Female Engagement Team who stumbles upon a military conspiracy involving the funding of an Islamist terror group by a major US corporation The supporting cast

Includes:: Peter Facinelli Jake Robinson & Omar Ghazaoui The episodes are & Gone Elvis& & Oscar Mike& & Drop King& & Tango Uniform& & Beat Feet& & Wingman& & Soup Sandwich& & Kmag Yoyo& & Figmo& & Fubar Bundy& & Gingerbread& & Bug Out& & & Real World&

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Please note this is a region 2 DVD & region B Blu-ray It will require a region B Blu-ray player to play the Blu-ray & DVD or a Region 2 DVD player for the DVD Three years after The Gospel According to Matthew Pier Paolo Pasolini resumed his series of classical adaptations with a savage highly personal take on Sophocles& ancient Greek tragedy Oedipus Rex (Edipo Re) As his first colour feature Oedipus Rex makes brilliant use of wildly alternating Moroccan landscapes to transpose collective myth into a particular vision that is at once tender sensual & wholly unsparing The film is divided into three sections set in different eras The opening takes place in 1920s Italy & recounts a birth that echoes that of the director himself the product of a beautiful bourgeoise&s affair with a military officer The mid section depicts a time "outside of history"
- it is here that the myth of Oedipus (portrayed by Franco Citti of Accattone & Coppola&s The Godfather) one of patricide & incest plays out opposite the young man&s motherlover (Silvana Mangano) An epilogue shot on the streets of present-day Bologna finds Oedipus playing his flute for a bustling citizenry Actors Silvana Mangano Franco Citti Alida Valli Carmelo Bene Julian Beck Luciano Bartoli Francesco Leonetti Ahmed Belhachmi Giovanni Ivan Scratuglia Giandomenico Davoli & Ninetto Davoli Director Pier Paolo Pasolini Certificate 15 years & over Year 1967 Screen Widescreen 1851 Languages Italian Subtitles English Duration 1 hour & 45 minutes (approx)
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