The Immortals

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Four scans apiece from Hercules: Fall of an Avenger #2 and Sif #1.

 

In Fall of an Avenger, Athena and Apollo's champions (plus the champions of their allies) duke it out; Athena's people win, but both sides are annoyed by the bosses.  Amadeus gets the help of Phobos to force Pluto to let him into Hades (by threatening Pluto with sickeningly cute visions):




Next day at Olympus Group, Athena finds that Amadeus has taken the job as CEO, and that he plans to use the Group's resources to try to find Hercules.

Meanwhile, in the second story, Venus and Namora continue their world tour of Hercules' holdings, and come across the Lethe Children's Hospital, which, it turns out, is an orphanage/hospital for the children of monsters.  The hospital head explains the history of the place.



They obviously don't make any money doing this.  They then visit the hospital ward, where all the terminally ill monster-kids live:



Venus decides to fudge the books on this place, and says she'll visit with the kids in his place, since she's immortal too.

Over in the one-shot Sif, written by Matt Fraction's wife Kelly DeConnick (also a writer/translator, apparently), Sif gets a visit from Beta Ray Bill and his new girlfriend/sole fellow Korbinite, Ti Asha Ra (lucky that the one Korbinite Galactus resurrected turned out to be someone he could get along with - otherwise it would have been like poor Ruebert from that old Dilbert comic strip).  They need someone to help them reclaim their sentient spaceship from pirates who have taken it over and infected it with a bioweapon; Bill was looking for Thor, but Sif volunteers since he's not around.  The villains are a Borg-esque collective who want to unify the whole universe, so their weapon is mind control, conveniently similar to Sif's recent experience with Loki.  Here, she faces off with the head-villain:




She destroys their main generator-thing, and saves the day.

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Comments

[cygna_hime]

Hot DAMN, it's Persephone! And looking suitably dread, too! I'd given up on ever seeing her in any adaptation ever! It's like she stole her husband's helm and has been wearing it for the last century or so.

That makes up for the namesmush and the totally-not-a-minotaur girl in my book. Only in my book, though; I like Persephone, and Hades/Persephone is kind of OTP.

[naela]

I know, I know, this is SD so it's never only me, but I am delighted someone else is a Hades/Persephone OTP. I've been shipping Hades/Persephone since I read their story in grade 4 (I even wrote a Kingdom Hearts fic in which she makes an appearance, I love them that much).

[cygna_hime]

I even wrote a Kingdom Hearts fic in which she makes an appearance, I love them that much

TELL ME MORE ABOUT THIS LIKE NOW. Mostly because I believe you have just saved me from writing this same fic.

[naela]

Unfortunately this fic was written ages ago and before I was out of highschool so it was terribad.

BUT if you plan on writing a Hades/Persephone fic for KH I would so read it!

[cygna_hime]

Noooooo I do not need more plots nooooooooo. Your problem. *defiant*

[darkblade]

How does Persephone work in the Dinsey-fied Greek Mythology that Kingdom Hearts uses?

[colonel_green]

With Persephone, I think her seldom appearing as Hades' wife has a lot to do with most adaptations basically depicting the gods in their "default" state.

[bluefall]

It's like she stole her husband's helm and has been wearing it for the last century or so.

Haha, that took me a minute.

For a long time, the thing that made me saddest in Rucka's Wondy run was that Hades got killed off and replaced by Ares without so much as a namecheck for Persephone. And after Perez even wrote her as an ally of the Patrons! (She gets, like, three panels in his whole run, but that's three more panels than she gets anywhere else ever.)

[colonel_green]

She's one of the more invisible goddesses - only Hestia has it worse, and she's an extra even in the original myths (I was stunned when Rick Riordan actually managed to make Hestia a really important figure in The Last Olympian).