We traveled back in time and grabbed some noteworthy stories for today's What's Trending! Explore deep oceans, dark caves, cross the Bering Strait, and more, featuring:
1. Onami, 49 pages - Published by Art Crumbs, (cc/ @ArtCrumbs)
Pon, a clay figure is made human as an offering to the gods. It doesn't go as planned and he is cast to the bottom of the ocean. A wandering spirit named "Ohma" finds him and assists in helping him back to the surface and fight Amat, the god who rejected him as an offering.
Story and Art by Kat Jackson (Artcrumbs)
2. Sun Eater, 97 pages - Published by Heavy Metal, (cc/ @dezi)
Sun Eater is a nine-issue saga that takes place in ninth century Norway, where a drug-addled warrior sacrifices his leg to the Gods. In return he is fused with a parasitic beast, giving him the power to rescue his son from his sworn enemies—history’s first Norwegian king and his five personal guards. The result is a grim and bloody adventure—a dark metaphor for drug addiction, selfishness
Story and Art by DC Alonso, Diego Yapur, Dylan Sprouse, Joe Harris
3. Plato's Cave, 14 pages - Published by Cave Pictures Publishing, (cc/ @mandi)
An adaptation of Plato's allegory of the Cave. A man chained in a cave is miraculously released and discovers that the shadows he has always thought were reality are just a reflection of a deeper truth.
Story and Art by Jason Brubaker
4. Nobody's Princess, 47 pages - Published by Odyssey Comics, (cc/ @odysseycomics)
When confronted with the reality of an arranged marriage to a prince she’s never met, Lady Theodosia Averelle does what any reasonable young lady would do in her position—fake her own kidnapping and demand her dowry as the ransom.
Story and Art by Odyssey Comics
5. The First Americans, 45 pages - Published by Critical Entertainment, (cc/ @DoubleZero00)
At the end of the ice age and on the brink of starvation, a brave tribe of Paleo-Indians journey from Siberia to North America to hunt an elusive herd of mammoths. When they fail to hunt down the beasts, the tribe must struggle through unexplored lands or face their own extinction.
Story and Art by Christopher Reda, Tadd Galusha, Travis Lanham
6. Claim, 96 pages - Published by Source Point Press, (cc/ @TravisM)
With the war in Unstablovakia in full swing and the throne up to claim, our two dum-dum mercenaries just want to get paid and maybe not get killed. Join their journey through dwarf mining country and its murder-by-pie treachery as they work for a ruler who wants to watch the world burn-starting with his own stuff! But our goblin and doppelgänger mercenaries may wreck the kingdom before anybody...
Story and Art by Greg Wright, Justin Birch, Mihajlo Dimitrievski
