When her roommate, Artemis, takes her to a party, her entire life changes: she ends up meeting Hades and feels an immediate spark with the charming yet misunderstood ruler of the Underworld. Her mother, Demeter, has raised her in the mortal realm, but after Persephone promises to train as a sacred virgin, she’s allowed to live in the fast-moving, glamorous world of the gods. Persephone, young goddess of spring, is new to Olympus. “What Scott Pilgrim did for Canadian slackers, Lore Olympus does for the Greek pantheon, while being so beautiful that you know Aphrodite is just staring daggers in its direction.”-Kieron Gillen, co-creator of The Wicked + The Divine To see this content please enable targeting cookies.ĭid you know there's even Lore Olympus merch at Hot Topic? There's shot glasses, shirts, and more.Ģ022 in Webtoons: The most popular webtoons of 2022 on Tapas and Webtoons.Scandalous gossip, wild parties, and forbidden love-witness what the gods do after dark in this stylish and contemporary reimagining of one of the best-known stories in Greek mythology from creator Rachel Smythe. And if you haven't read the series yet and want to get a feel for it, watch the series trailer below. Read Lore Olympus on WEBTOON or buy print copies of the series to read if you prefer to flip pages instead of scroll. ljgtV6eD3C- Rachel Lore Olympus FebruTo see this content please enable targeting cookies. This means no episodes will be released for the remainder of February and will return on the first week of March. Lore Olympus will be taking a two-week break from publishing. We certainly cannot wait to see what's going on with Hades and Persephone when the series, and they, return. The arc that Lee references will most likely begin in March, when the series starts back up. It's worth noting that Rachel Smythe announced on Twitter earlier this week that Lore Olympus will go on a two-week hiatus. without spoiling much, there are very big things happening in Lore Olympus right now, literally this week and next week,' Lee said.

Last Monday, Popverse sat down with WEBTOON's VP of content David Lee, who brought up Lore Olympus as one of the comics he's most excited about right now. Rachel Smythe's WEBTOON adaptation of the Hades and Persephone story has, over the past five years, catapulted up the charts to become one of the most successful webtoons on the platform with bestselling print editions and an animated series from the Jim Henson Company in the works as well.įor those reading, the series is currently deep into its season 3, and there's more excitement to come. If you're in the comics space at all, you've heard about (and have probably read) Lore Olympus.

Lore Olympus by Rachel Smythe