![]() ![]() “You know how New Zealanders are about compliments,” she says, too. I know how New Zealanders are about compliments. I don’t needle Smythe about all that too hard. Rachel Smythe and her book, Lore Olympus (Image: Supplied) It is a bona fide cultural phenomenon, inspiring tens of thousands of fanworks, innumerable cosplays, a television adaptation in the works, and now a book. Published on the Webtoon platform, the comic boasts over five million subscribers and has been viewed over 300 million times. It’s a sprawling story about complicated families, the pressures women face when coming of age in a world that wants them to be many contradictory things at once, a comedy about messy gods and goddesses interfering with one another’s lives and, of course, romance. ![]() ![]() Although really, that’s a gross simplification. Lore Olympus is a modern-day retelling of the classic myth of the abduction of Persephone. ![]()
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