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MythAdventures or Myth Adventures is a fantasy
series by Robert Lynn Asprin
and Jody Lynn Nye
. After twelve novels by Asprin, published 1978 to 2002, he and Nye continued the series with seven more books. After his death in May 2008, she intended to complete their plans.
The Myth Adventures are noted for and popular for their whimsical nature, myriad characters, and liberal use of pun
s. After the first book, every title turns on the similarity between the word "myth" and the prefix "mis-" or the word "miss". The inaugural title Another Fine Myth puns on the phrase "another fine mess". Chapters are usually headed by made-up quotes by famous or semi-famous persons.
Indeed, the first book was advertised under that title, Another Fine Mess, from Oliver Hardy
's often-used catchphrase directed towards his film comedy partner Stan Laurel
, supposedly "This is another fine mess you've gotten me into." (The actual catchphrase referred to "another nice mess".) After it was too late to change the catalog, Asprin decided that using "Myth" would be much better if the book would become a series. They changed the title and claimed a typo in the catalog.
According to Asprin, the original inspiration for the Myth Adventures was the "Road to...
" comedy movie series, which stars Bing Crosby
and Bob Hope
as wandering con-artists/adventurers.
The Phil Foglio
comics based on the books also involve The Winslow
: A small fuzzy alligator which happens to be utterly indestructible and presumably immortal, and figures prominently one way or another into fully three-fourths of the galaxy's known religions.
Dimensions that have been mentioned but not explicitly depicted:
under their Starblaze Graphics
imprint
(with the last two published by Meisha Merlin, who picked up the contract from Donning). All twelve are collected in Robert Asprin's Myth Adventures Volume 1 and Volume 2 (Meisha Merlin, 2006/2007).
The "new" Myth Adventures series was co-authored with Jody Lynn Nye
. As of 2010 it includes one collection and six novels.
After Myth-Gotten Gains, Meisha Merlin went out of business and publication of hardcover/trade editions changed hands again, this time to Wildside Press
. Robert Asprin died in May 2008, but Nye intended that year to write the books which she and Asprin had planned ("We had big plans"). According to the series website, the publisher of mass market editions Ace Books
has commissioned two.
In 2010, Baen Books published a collection of Asprin's short myth-stories under the title Myth-Interpretations. ISBN 1-4391-3390-5
comic book
series in the mid-1980s. Illustrated and heavily rewritten by Phil Foglio
, the series was later collected into two full-color graphic novel
s published by Starblaze Graphics
, and in 2007 Airship Entertainment (the Foglios' publishing concern) reprinted the material in a single volume. Four more issues followed, featuring an original story by Asprin and artist Jim Valentino
which attempts to bridge the action between the first and second novels in the series. (Apple Comics
took over the second series halfway through.) In 2010, Airship Entertainment began re-releasing the story as a web comic. http://www.airshipentertainment.com/mythcomic.php?date=20100112
The second novel was later adapted into another eight-part comic series by Ken and Beth Mitchroney and published by Apple from 1987 through 1989. Neither of these two later series enjoyed a graphic novel collection.
Foglio has also done the cover art and accompanying illustrations for the first editions of most of the novels. Before he started the cover illustrations, Kelly Freas did the covers of the first editions of the earliest books of the series.
, were considering turning their adaptation of Another Fine Myth
into a feature-length movie
after doing so with their own property, ElfQuest
, though the latter has yet to even make it past concept to this day.
Myth Adventures is the name of a 1997 play by Eric Coble
, but it appears to be a retelling of some ancient Greek myths
, and has nothing to do with Mr. Asprin's work.
. http://www.mayfairgames.com/shop/product/0450-0479/pages/0453.htm
Featuring more of Foglio's artwork, the game assigns each player an identity from the series, which they attempt to keep hidden from the other players as they work their way around the board. It includes a "subgame" which offers the opportunity to play the infinitely complicated card game "Dragon Poker
", from the series entry Little Myth Marker.
Designers included: Micki Niebling, John Danovich, Matt Forbeck and Bryan Winter.
Fantasy
Fantasy is a genre of fiction that commonly uses magic and other supernatural phenomena as a primary element of plot, theme, or setting. Many works within the genre take place in imaginary worlds where magic is common...
series by Robert Lynn Asprin
Robert Asprin
Robert Lynn Asprin was an American science fiction and fantasy author and active fan, best known for his humorous MythAdventures and Phule's Company series.- Background :...
and Jody Lynn Nye
Jody Lynn Nye
Jody Lynn Nye is an American science fiction writer. She has frequently collaborated as a co-author or the author of a sequel....
. After twelve novels by Asprin, published 1978 to 2002, he and Nye continued the series with seven more books. After his death in May 2008, she intended to complete their plans.
The Myth Adventures are noted for and popular for their whimsical nature, myriad characters, and liberal use of pun
Pun
The pun, also called paronomasia, is a form of word play which suggests two or more meanings, by exploiting multiple meanings of words, or of similar-sounding words, for an intended humorous or rhetorical effect. These ambiguities can arise from the intentional use and abuse of homophonic,...
s. After the first book, every title turns on the similarity between the word "myth" and the prefix "mis-" or the word "miss". The inaugural title Another Fine Myth puns on the phrase "another fine mess". Chapters are usually headed by made-up quotes by famous or semi-famous persons.
Indeed, the first book was advertised under that title, Another Fine Mess, from Oliver Hardy
Oliver Hardy
Oliver Hardy was an American comic actor famous as one half of Laurel and Hardy, the classic double act that began in the era of silent films and lasted nearly 30 years, from 1927 to 1955.-Early life:...
's often-used catchphrase directed towards his film comedy partner Stan Laurel
Stan Laurel
Arthur Stanley "Stan" Jefferson , better known as Stan Laurel, was an English comic actor, writer and film director, famous as the first half of the comedy team Laurel and Hardy. His film acting career stretched between 1917 and 1951 and included a starring role in the Academy Award winning film...
, supposedly "This is another fine mess you've gotten me into." (The actual catchphrase referred to "another nice mess".) After it was too late to change the catalog, Asprin decided that using "Myth" would be much better if the book would become a series. They changed the title and claimed a typo in the catalog.
According to Asprin, the original inspiration for the Myth Adventures was the "Road to...
Road to...
Road to ... refers to a series of seven comedy films starring Bing Crosby, Bob Hope, and Dorothy Lamour. They are also often referred to as the "Road" pictures or the "Road" series. The movies were a combination of adventure, comedy, romance, and music...
" comedy movie series, which stars Bing Crosby
Bing Crosby
Harry Lillis "Bing" Crosby was an American singer and actor. Crosby's trademark bass-baritone voice made him one of the best-selling recording artists of the 20th century, with over half a billion records in circulation....
and Bob Hope
Bob Hope
Bob Hope, KBE, KCSG, KSS was a British-born American comedian and actor who appeared in vaudeville, on Broadway, and in radio, television and movies. He was also noted for his work with the US Armed Forces and his numerous USO shows entertaining American military personnel...
as wandering con-artists/adventurers.
Characters
The stories mostly revolve around the adventures of a few central characters:- Skeeve, a youngish journeymanJourneymanA journeyman is someone who completed an apprenticeship and was fully educated in a trade or craft, but not yet a master. To become a master, a journeyman had to submit a master work piece to a guild for evaluation and be admitted to the guild as a master....
magicianMagician (fantasy)A magician, mage, sorcerer, sorceress, wizard, enchanter, enchantress, thaumaturge or a person known under one of many other possible terms is someone who uses or practices magic that derives from supernatural or occult sources...
from the backwater dimensionParallel universe (fiction)A parallel universe or alternative reality is a hypothetical self-contained separate reality coexisting with one's own. A specific group of parallel universes is called a "multiverse", although this term can also be used to describe the possible parallel universes that constitute reality...
of Klah. - Aahz, a green, scaly "demonDemoncall - 1347 531 7769 for more infoIn Ancient Near Eastern religions as well as in the Abrahamic traditions, including ancient and medieval Christian demonology, a demon is considered an "unclean spirit" which may cause demonic possession, to be addressed with an act of exorcism...
" (short for "dimension traveler") from the dimension of Perv, a world known for its foul-tempered reptilian humanoidReptilian humanoidReptilian humanoids comprise a common motif in mythology, folklore, science fiction, fantasy, conspiracy theories, ufology, and cryptozoology.-Male:...
inhabitants . Aahz (short for Aahzmandius) takes Skeeve on as his apprentice, despite having lost his powers through a prank pulled by Skeeve's now-deceased mentor, Garkin, at the beginning of the first novel. Later on, he and Skeeve dissolve their mentor/apprentice relationship and become partners in a magician-for-hire enterprise called M.Y.T.H. Inc. - Gleep, Skeeve's excitable pet, a baby dragonDragonA dragon is a legendary creature, typically with serpentine or reptilian traits, that feature in the myths of many cultures. There are two distinct cultural traditions of dragons: the European dragon, derived from European folk traditions and ultimately related to Greek and Middle Eastern...
with a one-word eponymous vocabulary ("Gleep!") that belies his incredible intellect. - Massha, a woman of truly monumental girth with bright orange hair and a gaudy fashion sense; she begins the series as "only" an expert user of magical weapons and tools, but eventually apprentices herself to Skeeve.
- Guido and Nunzio, a pair of hulking and highly capable bodyguardBodyguardA bodyguard is a type of security operative or government agent who protects a person—usually a famous, wealthy, or politically important figure—from assault, kidnapping, assassination, stalking, loss of confidential information, terrorist attack or other threats.Most important public figures such...
s attached to Skeeve as a favor from the interdimensional MafiaMafiaThe Mafia is a criminal syndicate that emerged in the mid-nineteenth century in Sicily, Italy. It is a loose association of criminal groups that share a common organizational structure and code of conduct, and whose common enterprise is protection racketeering...
's light-in-the-loafers Fairy Godfather, Don Bruce. Nunzio seldom talks, while Guido speaks in a RunyonesqueDamon RunyonAlfred Damon Runyon was an American newspaperman and writer.He was best known for his short stories celebrating the world of Broadway in New York City that grew out of the Prohibition era. To New Yorkers of his generation, a "Damon Runyon character" evoked a distinctive social type from the...
dialect, which is explained as being an aftereffect of having been in a production of Guys and Dolls. Both are much more intelligent than their stereotype suggests. - Chumley, an enormous but quite gentle and erudite TrollTrollA troll is a supernatural being in Norse mythology and Scandinavian folklore. In origin, the term troll was a generally negative synonym for a jötunn , a being in Norse mythology...
whose professional persona is a monosyllabic muscle-for-hire called Big Crunch. - Tananda, a.k.a. Tanda, a professional assassin and Chumley's nymphish Trollop sister.
- Bunny, Don Bruce's beautiful niece and Skeeve's assigned mollGun mollGun moll is a term that refers to the female companion of a male professional criminal. In some contexts, gun moll more specifically suggests that the woman handles a firearm....
; she is an accomplished and intelligent accountantAccountantAn accountant is a practitioner of accountancy or accounting , which is the measurement, disclosure or provision of assurance about financial information that helps managers, investors, tax authorities and others make decisions about allocating resources.The Big Four auditors are the largest...
and is in love with Skeeve (though he does not know it).
The Phil Foglio
Phil Foglio
Philip "Phil" Foglio is an American cartoonist and comic book artist best known for his humorous science fiction and fantasy work.-Early life and career:...
comics based on the books also involve The Winslow
The Winslow
The Winslow is a reptilian creature measuring 66 centimeters in length that plays a prominent role in many of comics artist Phil Foglio's various graphic novels, most notably Buck Godot and MythAdventures .-Biography:The Winslow is technically sentient and capable of speech, though rarely says...
: A small fuzzy alligator which happens to be utterly indestructible and presumably immortal, and figures prominently one way or another into fully three-fourths of the galaxy's known religions.
Known dimensions
- Klah: Backwater dimension from which Skeeve hails. General populace (Klahds) are afraid of demons and magik. Kingdom of Possiltum and Twixt are the only places worth mentioning.
- Deva: Merchant capital of the dimensions. Inhabited by the Deveels, traders supreme. As Aahz puts it, "if you think you've gotten a good deal from a Deveel, first count your fingers, then your limbs, then your relatives". The BazaarBazaarA bazaar , Cypriot Greek: pantopoula) is a permanent merchandising area, marketplace, or street of shops where goods and services are exchanged or sold. The term is sometimes also used to refer to the "network of merchants, bankers and craftsmen" who work that area...
on Deva is the only place of interest, a dimension-wide round-the-clock flea market which sells every conceivable magikal device and artifact. - Perv: High-tech dimension where Magik and technology are equal. Pervish cooking is one of the worst smells in all the dimensions (besides Gleep's breath). Pervects are short-tempered and disquieting rumors circulate about them, which Pervects encourage so that people do not visit. Do not ever call them "Perverts".
- Limbo: Dark dimension filled with vampireVampireVampires are mythological or folkloric beings who subsist by feeding on the life essence of living creatures, regardless of whether they are undead or a living person...
s and were-thingsLycanthropyLycanthropy is the professed ability or power of a human being to undergo transformation into a werewolf, or to gain wolf-like characteristics. The term comes from Greek Lykànthropos : λύκος, lykos + άνθρωπος, ànthrōpos...
, such as werewolvesWerewolfA werewolf, also known as a lycanthrope , is a mythological or folkloric human with the ability to shapeshift into a wolf or an anthropomorphic wolf-like creature, either purposely or after being placed under a curse...
, werebearWereBearThe WereBears were a series of teddy bears released in 1983 in the United Kingdom. They were created by a man named George Nicholas, a famous children's author, so that boys could have teddy bears without worrying about being bullied.-History:...
s, weresnakes, and weretigersWerecatA werecat is a therianthropic creature of folklore, horror, and occultism, described as being a shape-shifter similar to a Werewolf....
. Chief city is Blut, notable people are Vilhelm the Dispatcher, and Drahcir and Idnew: the Woof Writers, a husband and wife team of werewolves (homages to Wendi and Richard Pini). The low amount of force-lines limit magik here, and offworlders are viewed as terrifying monsters by the older vampires. Skeeve's house in the Bazaar has a back door which opens into Limbo. - Jahk: Humanoid dimension where the average inhabitants are either short and obese or extremely thin. Every year, the Big Game is played to determine whether Veygus or Ta-Hoe is the capital of the dimension. Players are practically another species, extremely muscled and large. The winner of the Big Game used to claim the Trophy, but the hideous thing is now in the possession of Aahz, after the Skeeve-founded team "The Demons" won it in a three-way brawl. Following their victory and subsequent confiscation of the Trophy (and with it Jahk's method of selecting their capital) a Common Council was put together to rule the dimension.
- Avis: Dimension full of sentient birds. No areas of interest. Do not visit Avis unless you can fly and you like foods of the crawly variety.
- Gastropo: A dimension full of snail-like inhabitants. The preferred mode of transport is walking, although that takes hours just to move a block. Unadvisable to visit. As Tananda would put it, they have no cargo but plenty of es-cargo(t).
- Arcadia: A pleasant dimension "controlled" by a hard-working philanthropistPhilanthropistA philanthropist is someone who engages in philanthropy; that is, someone who donates his or her time, money, and/or reputation to charitable causes...
named Hoos. - Kow-Tow: An extremely remote dimension that superficially resembles the American "Wild West"American Old WestThe American Old West, or the Wild West, comprises the history, geography, people, lore, and cultural expression of life in the Western United States, most often referring to the latter half of the 19th century, between the American Civil War and the end of the century...
, but is actually a breeding ground for humans so that the vampire cows can suck their blood. Contains a huge nexus of magic force-lines. - Scamaroni: A dimension with a smell-oriented race that has a reputation for being made up of suckers.
- Kobol: A dimension of technology enthusiasts.
- Ronko: A dimension filled with televisions and advertising.
- Wuh: Rural dimension that is home to cowardly, sheep-like shopaholics called Wuhses.
- Sear: A bleak desert dimension inhabited by tiny soil-dwelling critters.
- Ori: A dimension whose inhabitants resemble house cats.
- Walt: The natives look a bit like a mix between storks and ostriches, and are famous for their dancing prowess.
- Febrile: Coolest Temperature is over one hundred and twenty.
- Molder: A dark, damp place where everything always seems to be changing. Even the ground seems to grow and move under your feet.
- Etc: One long, straight road with identical buildings on both sides. Inhabited by creatures that look and dress identical. Gray suits, gray hair, gray face, two arms. All move at the same identical time and in the same direction.
- Bumppp: Wide meadow filled with thick plants and orange flowers. blue sky and pink mountains. Inhabited by large snake creatures that appear to be hostile.
Dimensions that have been mentioned but not explicitly depicted:
- Imper: Not much is known about Imper except that it is close to Deva and the Imps were wiped out financially by the Deveels. The Imps have since tried to mimic the Deveels (whom they physically resemble) with only marginal success. The kindest thing anyone has said about Imps is that they are snappy dressers.
- Trollia: Chumley and Tanda's home dimension. The males are Trolls, and the females are Trollops.
- Rinasp: A dimension that suffered a ghastly fate when Tanda was hired to go there on a collection job.
- Archiah: The dimension that "invented archery".
- Zoorik: Home of the GnomeGnomeA gnome is a diminutive spirit in Renaissance magic and alchemy, first introduced by Paracelsus and later adopted by more recent authors including those of modern fantasy literature...
s, who are implied to be financial wizards. - Ratislava: Whose inhabitants created an extremely powerful magical device that was then stolen and taken off-dimension.
- Mantico: Home of the formidable ManticoreManticoreThe manticore is a legendary creature similar to the Egyptian sphinx. It has the body of a red lion, a human head with three rows of sharp teeth , and a trumpet-like voice. Other aspects of the creature vary from story to story. It may be horned, winged, or both...
race. - Djinger: Home and base of operations for the Djinns. The Djinns, like the Imps, were hit hard by the cut-throat tactics of the Deveels, so they started providing emigrant magickal labor in bottles and lamps. Males are Djinns, females are Djeanies.
- Trofi: A dimension that has no businessmen, instead, everything is won in contests. It is also the dimension known for matchmaking. Many dimension travelers want a Trofi wife.
Books
The "first" Myth Adventures series was written by Asprin alone for the now-defunct publishing house The Donning CompanyThe Donning Company
The Donning Company is a specialty book publisher based in Virginia Beach. It was first established in the mid-1970s to publish a pictorial history of the founders' hometown. Its imprints included Starblaze Graphics.In 1985, Donning became a wholly owned subsidiary of Walsworth Publishing Company...
under their Starblaze Graphics
Starblaze Graphics
Starblaze Graphics was an imprint of The Donning Company, a publishing company established in 1978 to publish illustrated books. Notable Starblaze publications include Robert Asprin's MythAdventures series, as well as a graphic novel based on the first book...
imprint
Imprint
In the publishing industry, an imprint can mean several different things:* As a piece of bibliographic information about a book, it refers to the name and address of the book's publisher and its date of publication as given at the foot or on the verso of its title page.* It can mean a trade name...
(with the last two published by Meisha Merlin, who picked up the contract from Donning). All twelve are collected in Robert Asprin's Myth Adventures Volume 1 and Volume 2 (Meisha Merlin, 2006/2007).
- Another Fine MythAnother Fine MythAnother Fine Myth is a 1978 novel by Robert Lynn Asprin, and is the first book in the Myth Adventures series.-Plot synopsis:Skeeve, a magician's apprentice and wannabe thief from the dimension Klah, tries to learn the basics of magic from Master Magician Garkin for several months but to no...
(1978) ISBN 0-441-02359-2 - Myth Conceptions (1980) ISBN 0-441-55519-5
- Myth DirectionsMyth DirectionsMyth Directions is a 1982 novel by Robert Asprin, part of the MythAdventures series.-Plot synopsis:Tanda wanted to get Aahz a birthday present, so she decides to rope Skeeve in to help find her a unique present for Skeeve's mentor...
(1982) ISBN 0-441-55525-X - Hit or Myth (1983) ISBN 0-441-33850-X
- Myth-ing Persons (1984) ISBN 0-441-55276-5
- Little Myth Marker (1985) ISBN 0-441-48499-9
- M.Y.T.H. Inc. Link (1986) ISBN 0-441-55277-3
- Myth-Nomers and Im-Pervections (1987) ISBN 0-441-01461-5
- M.Y.T.H. Inc. in Action (1990) ISBN 0-099-93500-7
- Sweet Myth-Tery of Life (1993) ISBN 0-441-00194-7
- Myth-Ion Improbable (2001) (a prequelPrequelA prequel is a work that supplements a previously completed one, and has an earlier time setting.The widely recognized term was a 20th-century neologism, and a portmanteau from pre- and sequel...
of sorts, set in a time between Myth Directions and Hit or Myth) - Something M.Y.T.H. Inc. (2002)
The "new" Myth Adventures series was co-authored with Jody Lynn Nye
Jody Lynn Nye
Jody Lynn Nye is an American science fiction writer. She has frequently collaborated as a co-author or the author of a sequel....
. As of 2010 it includes one collection and six novels.
- Myth-Told Tales (2003)
- Myth Alliances (2003)
- Myth-Taken Identity (2004)
- Class Dis-Mythed (2005)
- Myth-Gotten Gains (2006)
- Myth-Chief (2008)
- Myth-Fortunes (2008)
After Myth-Gotten Gains, Meisha Merlin went out of business and publication of hardcover/trade editions changed hands again, this time to Wildside Press
Wildside Press
Wildside Press is an independent publishing company located in Maryland, USA. It was founded in 1989 by John Gregory and Kim Betancourt. While the press was originally conceived as a publisher of speculative fiction in both trade and limited editions, it has broadened out somewhat since then, both...
. Robert Asprin died in May 2008, but Nye intended that year to write the books which she and Asprin had planned ("We had big plans"). According to the series website, the publisher of mass market editions Ace Books
Ace Books
Ace Books is the oldest active specialty publisher of science fiction and fantasy books. The company was founded in New York City in 1952 by Aaron A. Wyn, and began as a genre publisher of mysteries and westerns...
has commissioned two.
In 2010, Baen Books published a collection of Asprin's short myth-stories under the title Myth-Interpretations. ISBN 1-4391-3390-5
Illustrated novels
The first novel was adapted into an 12-part WaRP GraphicsWaRP Graphics
WaRP Graphics, later Warp Graphics, is an alternative comics publisher best known for creating and being the original publisher of the Elfquest comic book series. It was created and incorporated in 1977 by Wendy and Richard Pini. The company title is an acronym formed from the founding couple's...
comic book
Comic book
A comic book or comicbook is a magazine made up of comics, narrative artwork in the form of separate panels that represent individual scenes, often accompanied by dialog as well as including...
series in the mid-1980s. Illustrated and heavily rewritten by Phil Foglio
Phil Foglio
Philip "Phil" Foglio is an American cartoonist and comic book artist best known for his humorous science fiction and fantasy work.-Early life and career:...
, the series was later collected into two full-color graphic novel
Graphic novel
A graphic novel is a narrative work in which the story is conveyed to the reader using sequential art in either an experimental design or in a traditional comics format...
s published by Starblaze Graphics
Starblaze Graphics
Starblaze Graphics was an imprint of The Donning Company, a publishing company established in 1978 to publish illustrated books. Notable Starblaze publications include Robert Asprin's MythAdventures series, as well as a graphic novel based on the first book...
, and in 2007 Airship Entertainment (the Foglios' publishing concern) reprinted the material in a single volume. Four more issues followed, featuring an original story by Asprin and artist Jim Valentino
Jim Valentino
Jim Valentino is an American writer, penciler, editor and publisher of comic books.-1970s - 1992:Valentino began his career in the late 1970s creating small press and mostly autobiographical comics. The early-mid 1980s saw normalman which first appeared as a back-up story in Aardvark-Vanaheim's...
which attempts to bridge the action between the first and second novels in the series. (Apple Comics
Apple Comics
Apple Comics, also known as Apple Press, was a comic book publisher which operated from 1986–1994. Published by Michael Catron, they began as an imprint of WaRP Graphics, but had their own financing structure...
took over the second series halfway through.) In 2010, Airship Entertainment began re-releasing the story as a web comic. http://www.airshipentertainment.com/mythcomic.php?date=20100112
The second novel was later adapted into another eight-part comic series by Ken and Beth Mitchroney and published by Apple from 1987 through 1989. Neither of these two later series enjoyed a graphic novel collection.
Foglio has also done the cover art and accompanying illustrations for the first editions of most of the novels. Before he started the cover illustrations, Kelly Freas did the covers of the first editions of the earliest books of the series.
Film and theater
Short-lived rumors circulated in the 1980s that Wendy and Richard Pini, owners of WaRP GraphicsWaRP Graphics
WaRP Graphics, later Warp Graphics, is an alternative comics publisher best known for creating and being the original publisher of the Elfquest comic book series. It was created and incorporated in 1977 by Wendy and Richard Pini. The company title is an acronym formed from the founding couple's...
, were considering turning their adaptation of Another Fine Myth
Another Fine Myth
Another Fine Myth is a 1978 novel by Robert Lynn Asprin, and is the first book in the Myth Adventures series.-Plot synopsis:Skeeve, a magician's apprentice and wannabe thief from the dimension Klah, tries to learn the basics of magic from Master Magician Garkin for several months but to no...
into a feature-length movie
Film
A film, also called a movie or motion picture, is a series of still or moving images. It is produced by recording photographic images with cameras, or by creating images using animation techniques or visual effects...
after doing so with their own property, ElfQuest
Elfquest
Elfquest is a cult hit comic book property created by Wendy and Richard Pini in 1978. It is a fantasy story about a community of elves and other fictional species who struggle to survive and coexist on a primitive Earth-like planet with two moons. Several published volumes of prose fiction also...
, though the latter has yet to even make it past concept to this day.
Myth Adventures is the name of a 1997 play by Eric Coble
Eric Coble
Eric Coble is a playwright and screenwriter. He is a member of the Playwrights' Unit of the Cleveland Play House.Eric Coble was born in Edinburgh, Scotland and raised on the Navajo and Ute reservations in New Mexico and Colorado...
, but it appears to be a retelling of some ancient Greek myths
Greek mythology
Greek mythology is the body of myths and legends belonging to the ancient Greeks, concerning their gods and heroes, the nature of the world, and the origins and significance of their own cult and ritual practices. They were a part of religion in ancient Greece...
, and has nothing to do with Mr. Asprin's work.
The Board Game
A board game called "Myth Fortunes" was developed by Mayfair GamesMayfair Games
Mayfair Games is a publisher of board, card, and roleplaying games. They also license German-style board games and publish them in English throughout the world...
. http://www.mayfairgames.com/shop/product/0450-0479/pages/0453.htm
Featuring more of Foglio's artwork, the game assigns each player an identity from the series, which they attempt to keep hidden from the other players as they work their way around the board. It includes a "subgame" which offers the opportunity to play the infinitely complicated card game "Dragon Poker
Dragon Poker
Dragon Poker is a fictional card game from the "MythAdventures" series by Robert Asprin, featured primarily in the book Little Myth Marker. The game is an absurdly complex Poker variant, with the same basic rules as stud poker but with different names for the suits and face cards and the added...
", from the series entry Little Myth Marker.
Designers included: Micki Niebling, John Danovich, Matt Forbeck and Bryan Winter.
External links
- Myth Adventures.net official website
- MythAdventures online comic