Odyssey Comics: The Greatest Comic Universe That Never Existed: Book of Heroes & Villiains

In 2025, Odyssey Comics Entertainment launched The Greatest Comic Universe That Never Existed: Book of Heroes & Villains, a 12-issue series written and drawn by Gene Shanks. The project serves as a sprawling, self-contained encyclopedia of an imagined comic-book universe, cataloging its heroes, villains, and mythos with the depth of a real shared continuity. Shanks’s singular creative vision gives the series a cohesive, personal feel, celebrating the archetypal energy of classic superhero comics while building something entirely from scratch. It matters as a bold, creator-driven experiment in world-building—a love letter to the genre that asks what a “greatest” universe might look like if it had never been published.