Written by: Tom Pinchuk
Illustrated by: Kate Glasheen

Zeus is a god, and he has a reputation, a reputation based on a simple truth: he’s a cad. An unrepentant, philandering cad, and it’s been driving his wife Hera nuts for years. One night Hera reaches her limit, and in a passive-aggressive act of revenge, she places a spell on Zeus, a spell that causes him to fall in lust with every inanimate object in sight. It was a night Zeus doesn’t remember, but he’s a god, after all, and so his seed took root, and eighteen years later, his unnatural hybrid bastards are wandering the world: misbegotten creatures. Quirky oddballs. Nature-defying fusions of man and inanimate object. The hybrid bastards were born in a practical joke of mythic proportions.

But Zeus is a god, and he has a reputation, one that he wants to protect, so those hybrid bastards—evidence of a most embarrassing infidelity—have got to go. And go they do, hunted down by his goons. All except a motley crew: COTTON, a smarmy cloth patchwork; CARMINE, a timid automobile; COREY, a self-loathing apple; WALTER, a belligerent stack of bricks; and PANOS, their gallant would-be leader. This pack of hybrid bastards refuses to go quietly. Through schemes both ingenious and idiotic, they will force their negligent father to acknowledge them and, just maybe, do right by them.That is, if their own squabbling doesn’t defeat them first.

Hybrid Bastards!
A three-issue series in which writer Tom Pinchuk and illustrator Kate Glasheen take Greek mythology in a decidedly different direction.

Hardcover available June 2010.

SELECT REVIEWS

“A brash title, and well worth the cover price.”

-Gutter Bleed

“A thing hardly ever, ever seen in modern day comics: something unique in both story and art, something without compare in any of its elements, and yet, for all of that, staunchly, effortlessly accessible.  Originality without obscurity, sheer frivolity with a deeply sympathetic center…. A triumph for Archaia Studios Press, and for the comics world as a whole.”

- Dave Baxter, Broken Frontier

“Archaia hit another home run…. I recommend it wholeheartedly. It’s wacky, funny, and good for the soul.”

- The Geeks of Doom

[Glasheen] pulls off some great sequences… The hybrids themselves are all appealingly weird, and the whole thing is brilliantly colored.”

-J. Caleb Mozzocco, Las Vegas Weekly

“A hook that I just couldn’t ignore… Pinchuk keeps a fun vibe going throughout the book, treating the characters seriously enough that the story feels important somehow but with enough tongue-in-cheek that it’s an entertaining ride along the way.”“A hook that I just couldn’t ignore… Pinchuk keeps a fun vibe going throughout the book, treating the characters seriously enough that the story feels important somehow but with enough tongue-in-cheek that it’s an entertaining ride along the way.”

- Dan Grendell, Comic Pants

If you’re looking for the bold, weird and different,Hybrid Bastards! is very much all three.”

- Randy Lander, Comic Pants

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