STORY BY JEFF LIMIKE PENCILS BY TIM SEELEY iNKS BY BARBARA SCHULZ BASED ON THE HEROIC POEM BY APOLLONIUS OF RHODES
THE CLASHING ROCKS MY NAME IS JASON AND I SHOULD BE THE RULER OF IOLCuS B MY FATHER AESON HAD THE THRONE TAKEN AWAY FROM HIM BY HIS BROTHER PELIAS MY FATHER HID ME FROM THE EVIL PELIAS AND I WAS RAISED BY A CENTAUR HALF MAN HALF HORSE NAMED CHIRON CHIRON TAUGHT ME WELL WHO I WAS AND WHAT I WAS SUPPOSED TO BE AA WHEN I ARRIVED IN IOLCuS TO CLAIM MY BIRTHRIGHT MAY UNCLE DIDN't GIVE THE THRONE TO ME HE SAID HE WOULD ACCEPT MY CLAIM TO THE THRONE ONLY IF I BROUGHT HIM THE FLEECE OF THE GOLDEN RAM OF COLCHIS HE SAID BRINGING THE GOLDEN FLEECE TO OLCuS WOULD GRANT HIM PEACE FROM THE GHOST OF PHRIXUS WHO HAUNTED HIM NIGHTLY AND THE ADVENTURE WOULD BRING TO ME GREAT glory
I BUILT A GREAT SHIP AND NAMED IT THE ARGO AND I GATHERED ALL THE HEROES I COULD FIND TO JOIN ME ON it WE ARGONALTS TRAVELED FAR ON OUR SEARCH AND HAD MANY ADVENTURES IE HEROES INCLUDED NOBLE AND VIRTuous PELEUS WHO WAS GIVEN A SEA GODDESS TO WED AND ZETES AND CALAIS THE SONS OF BOREAS THE L NORTH WIND BLIND PHINEus WHOM THE HEROES SAVED FROM STARVATION RODE WITH US AS WELL OTHERS SUCH AS HERCULES HAD LEFT US EARLIER HERCULES HAD SAVED HIS ARMOR BEARER HYlAS FROM DROWNING AND HAD STAYED BEHIND TO MAKE SURE HE RETURNED TO GOOD HEALTH THE TWINS CASTOR AND POLLUX BROUGHT THEIR YouTHFUL ENERGY WHILE ORPHEus BROUGHT HIS LYRE TO KEEP US ENTERTAINED THEN A NEW DANGER PuT Our VERY LIVES AT RISK JASON I CAN TELL FROM THE SOUNDS THAT WE ARE NEAR THE ROCKS KNOWN AS THE SYMPLEGADES I TOLD You ABOUT THEM NO SHIP HAS EVER PASSED THROUGH THEM safely