Previous book: Story Maze (Series, Book 5): The Minotaur’s Maze.

The sixth book in the "Storymaze" series follows the surfing adventures of Nico, Claudia, and Mikey through parallel worlds and across the universe. The story begins with yet another attempt by protagonist Nico to win the surfing world championship on the planet Ganymede. This time he is confident of victory given that his main rival, Hercules, has been sent to the Underworld to retrieve Cerberus. By some twist of traveling fate, they accidentally arrive on the reverse of Ganymede, the planet Edemynag, where the surf is backward and so is the scoring system. Unfortunately for Nico, he loses to the worst surfer because… it is a backward world. They hurry to make it to the next championship which is on the planet Eeeno. This time Nico does well, so well in fact that he is in the lead and it appears that he will win the championship. However, Hercules arrives, back from the Underworld and tries to thwart his attempt. A malicious dolphin takes care of Hercules but Nico slams into a stone pillar that rises out of the surf, and has to be rescued by officials. The pillar is the Obelisk of Eeeno, and it contains a surprising hieroglyphic reference to the Knossos Minotaur and the group, eager to find out if their friend the Minotaur (from "Storymaze" 5) might still be alive, head to Knossos for more information. They discover that King Minos has died but they do not know that his daughter Ariadne was the one responsible for her brother’s death. They travel with Ariadne to find the Minotaur and find themselves, again through poor management of their travel device, in a sinking ship. Captain Nick suggests that the god of the sea, Poseidon might be responsible for the obelisk. Poseidon overhears and uses a storm to upend their boat. They survive by holding onto flotsam and end up in Poseidon’s palace where Poseidon claims to have seen the Minotaur alive and labels him a spy for his brother, Zeus, and suggests that he has stolen Poseidon’s trident. Poseidon releases the Minotaur from the Obelisk in exchange for his trident and Ariadne is imprisoned in his place. Zeus takes the Minotaur to the heavens as a reward for his loyalty and the Ithacans are left alone once more. Nico wins the world surfing championship finally and the three of them end the series by planning a visit to their favourite burger place.

Graphic novel for children, with a science-fiction and comedy approach to classical myth and antiquity. 

The final book in the "Storymaze" series is slightly less fractured than previous adventures, but it is still a fast-paced and off-beat ride. The story roughly follows the myth of the Minotaur of Minos and his sister Ariadne but also includes interactions with the Hercules myth and the Poseidon and Zeus saga. The stories intertwine in new ways and include new characters amongst the mythical ones. The author shows a playful attitude towards the old myths and a certain degree of disrespect, mocking both the gods, the creatures, and the ways in which the stories are supposed to play out. If anything of the original remains, it is the idea of the melodramatic and highly emotional Greek gods reacting unwisely in most situations. The story has an omniscient and judgemental narrator, reminiscent of the Greek chorus who comments on the elements of the story, judge the characters and their decisions, and makes predictions about how the story might play out. The "Storymaze" series is an irreverent engagement with classical myth, a pastiche of elements and characters that is at once complicated and frenetic, but also simplistic, graphical, and lighthearted. 

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