The Titan’s Curse: The Graphic Novel (Percy Jackson and the Olympians Series, Book 3) (Percy Jackson & the Olympians, 3)

Product Description

A new prophecy leads to a dangerous quest.

When Percy receives an urgent distress call from Grover, he immediately prepares for battle. He knows he’ll need his powerful demigod allies, Annabeth and Thalia, at his side; his trusty bronze sword, Riptide; and…a ride from his mom.

The demigods race to the rescue, only to find that Grover has made an important discovery: two new powerful half-bloods, whose parentage is unknown. But that’s not all that awaits them. The Titan lord, Kronos, has set up his most devious trap yet, and the young heroes have just fallen prey.

Now, Percy and his friends are faced with their most dangerous challenge―the chilling prophecy of the Titan’s Curse. They must rescue the goddess Artemis by the Winter Solstice, or all will be lost…including Annabeth.

Rick Riordan’s internationally best-selling
The Titan’s Curse becomes a graphic novel in the hands of comic-book luminaries Robert Venditti, Attila Futaki, and Greg Guilhaumond.

From Booklist

As readers of Riordan’s series know, a war between Titans and gods is stirring, and the goddess Artemis is crucial to preparations. But five days before the winter solstice, when she must participate in the summit of the gods, she goes missing. Several of her hunters set out to find her, and though they initially refuse Percy a place in the quest, they eventually join forces for a perilous journey that leads to a showdown with the Titan Atlas and more than one heartrending death. Venditti (The Surrogates) remolds the tale into sequential form, successfully interspersing exposition, action, and revelation at a breathless pace appropriate to the novel. Futaki envisions the beloved characters clearly, and Guilhaumond finds a palette that nicely evokes our hero’s accruing burdens. Although all of mythology’s classic mayhem-makers are present, from manticore to dragon-tooth soldiers to the titanic Talos, they are somewhat robbed of their terrible awesomeness by the scale of the page composition and panel size. Nevertheless, no fan will be able to turn this down. Grades 5-8. –Jesse Karp

Review

As readers of Riordan’s series know, a war between Titans and gods is stirring, and the goddess Artemis is crucial to preparations. But five days before the winter solstice, when she must participate in the summit of the gods, she goes missing. Several of her hunters set out to find her, and though they initially refuse Percy a place in the quest, they eventually join forces for a perilous journey that leads to a showdown with the Titan Atlas and more than one heartrending death. Venditti (The Surrogates) remolds the tale into sequential form, successfully interspersing exposition, action, and revelation at a breathless pace appropriate to the novel. Futaki envisions the beloved characters clearly, and Guilhaumond finds a palette that nicely evokes our hero’s accruing burdens. Although all of myth’s mayhem-makers are present, from manticore to dragon-tooth soldiers to the titanic Talos, they are somewhat robbed of their terrible awesomeness by the scale of the page composition and panel size. Nevertheless, no fan will be able to turn this down. – Jesse Karp Booklist”

About the Author

RICK RIORDAN is the author of all the books in the
New York Times #1 best-selling Percy Jackson & the Olympians series:
The Lightning Thief,
The Sea of Monsters,
The Titan’s Curse,
The Battle of the Labyrinth, and
The Last Olympian. His other novels for children include the
New York Times #1 best-selling series The Kane Chronicles (
The Red Pyramid,
The Throne of Fire, and
The Serpent’s Shadow) and The Heroes of Olympus (
The Lost Hero,
The Son of Neptune, The Mark of Athena, and
The House of Hades). He lives in San Antonio, Texas with his wife and two sons. Learn more at RickRiordan.com.

Robert Venditti is the
New York Times best-selling author of
The Homeland Directive and
The Surrogates, as well as
The Surrogates: Flesh and Bone. He also adapted the
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