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Epic: The Musical is an in-progress concept album and loose adaptation of The Odyssey. It is written/composed by Jorge Rivera-Herrans, who began the project in 2019 but first posted about it to the public in 2021.

Production is ongoing, and completed songs are released on story-arc clusters called "Sagas" while incomplete demos (usually sung by Rivera-Herrans himself) are released on Rivera's social media accounts. Notably, the project garnered popularity through TikTok, where Rivera initially released the songs. After gaining a sizeable following, he was able to engage in more professional production, including hiring voice actors/singers for other characters, leaving him to voice Odysseus.

The album/musical is planned to have Two Acts, with twenty songs each. Songs are partitioned into "Sagas," with Act One containing five Sagas and Act Two containing four. As of this writing, Sagas 1-5 are released,

We're in an America based on tabloid news, underground comix, 1970s trash culture, Jack Chick Tracts, Mad magazine, and what Fox News viewers likely think kids these days are up to. The geist is very 70s, blended with present-day and 1990s elements. In short it's a story that could only take place in a comic book, and one NOT intended for children. It features a small army of small town characters, including writer/artist Rick Altergott's most notorious

 

On the way there, Miriam Moon thought about what she would say. A life, after all, might hang in the balance. Poor Evangeline. So young and unwise in the ways of men, and Ashford Cowell was as bad as they came. It just goes to show, thought Miriam Moon, you can not trust a man who would wear an ascot

Will they need a description, Miriam Moon wondered. To say she was “pretty” would not do her justice. Evangeline had golden hair that fell down her back in long, gentle

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