At his King’s request, Perseus sought the
gorgon Medusa’s head.
He crept while she slept using his mirrored-shield.
Eye-contact meant petrification.
Perseus drew steel.
PERSEUS: HAVE AT THEE BEAST!
YAH!
MEDUSA: *GASPS IN SHOCK*
Medusa wasn’t always a monster.
She was once the beautiful high virgin priestess
of Athena.
But Poseidon, the ocean god, lusted after
her and, one day forced himself upon her in
Athena’s shrine.
The goddess punished not him, for this act,
but Medusa.
MEDUSA: ATHENA, PLEASE
ATHENA: I CURSE YOU MY CHILD.
ALL WHO MEET YOUR GAZE WILL BECOME SOULS OF
THE STONE.
MEDUSA: AHHHHHHHHHHHH!
Instantly, Medusa the beautiful, was made
a gorgon.
Now.
Perseus was inches from his King’s boon,
when suddenly …
PERSEUS: AHHHHHHHHHHH!
… one of Medusa’s serpentine sisters sprang
forth.
MEDUSA: YOUR FIRST MISTAKE SON OF ZEUS WAS
ENTERING A SNAKE-INFESTED GORGON LAIR.
YOUR SECOND, WAS.
WAKING.
ME.
UP.
PERSEUS: I’LL NEVER GIVE UP MONSTER.
YOU CAN’T MAKE ME LOOK AT YOU!
MEDUSA: I CAN’T. BUT THEY CAN
PERSEUS: AHHH!
AHHHHHH!
AHHHH!
OH ZEUS HELP ME!
ATHENAAAAA!
And with that, the warrior was turned to stone.
Perseus of Seriphos was now just another statue
among the Medusa’s VAST collection.
MEDUSA: I’D RATHER DIE A THOUSAND DEATHS
THAN FACE ANOTHER CHAMPION OF OLYMPUS.
MEDUSA: DO YOU HEAR ME POSEIDON, ATHENA?!
WHY DON’T YOU FACE ME YOURSELF.
Suddenly Medusa and her sisters were transported
beyond time and space, to where Athena dwelled.
ATHENA: BE CAREFUL WHAT YOU WISH FOR MY CHILD.
THAT WAS MY BROTHER.
The teleportation had undone Medusa.
MEDUSA: WHERE AM I?
WHAT?
ATHENA: MY DOMAIN.
MEDUSA; NOOOOOOOO!
ATHENA: WATCH OUT.
Athena’s mechanical owl swept in and clawed
out Medusa’s eyes.
The gorgon’s petrification was no use against
automata.
ATHENA: YOUR POWERS ARE GONE MY CHILD
ATHENA: YOU’RE DONE FOR GORGON
The goddess of wisdom and war had the upper-hand.
She let spear steel fly.
MEDUSA: AH-THEEE-NAAAA-GUH!
Medusa was down.
ATHENA: YOU BROUGHT ALL OF THIS UPON YOURSELF
MEDUSA: MY SIGHT.
Her hands covered in her own purple blood,
Medusa reached up and begged.
MEDUSA: PLEASE, MOST WISE ATHENA.
HELP.
ME.
ATHENA: PROVIDING YOU A GLORIOUS END IS HELP
ENOUGH.
Athena left the Gorgon to rot.
But she’d forgotten one crucial detail.
ATHENA: GAH-- OHH---
Gorgon blood was lethal, even to Olympians.
Athena was beaten, and Medusa’s kin had
binded goddess’s owl.
The wounded gorgon then traversed leaf, sea
and sand to the waters of Poseidon.
She wiped her blood across her face and yelled
into the deep blue.
MEDUSA: OCEAN GOD!
SHOW YOURSELF!
The land trembled as the gigantic Poseidon
rose from the waters below.
This was a show of force.
POSEIDON: FIRST MY NEPHEW, THEN MY NIECE.
WHAT NEXT GORGON?
Poseidon was ready to crush her but Gorgon
blood is also regenerative.
MEDUSA: YOU.
And with that, Medusa was done.
She had won the battle.
But not the war.
Hades, Hermes, Zeus and the hundred-handed
Hecatoncheires now stood before her.
ZEUS: MY CHILD.
WAIT.
MEDUSA: I AM NO CHILD.
AHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!
