In the House of Night novels, Nyx is the goddess that all the vampyres worship.  She is the goddess of night and has many different names and seems to show up across multiple religions.  Even the nuns that work at Street Cats believe that Nyx is just another name for the Virgin Mary.  To most characters in the series, Nyx is an obscure figure but to Zoey and a few other characters, she actually speaks and even occasionally appears.  She is also the one that gives the vampyres and fledglings gifts which she say she can never take back.

In Greek mythology, Nyx is a goddess that is the personfication of night.  Her name in Roman mythology is Nox.  Nyx came from the black void known as Chaos along with Erebus (as in the sons of Erebus in House of Night) and a few others, including Gaia, who became the mother of the titans.  Erebus is the personification of darkness.  Erebus and Nyx mated.  Their children included the personification of sky, day, Nemesis and Charon, the ferryman across the river Styx to Hades. 

It has been years and years since I’ve read Theogony by Hesiod so someone correct me if I get this wrong.  Nyx produced children asexually as well.  These included Doom, Fate and Death (sometimes written out as Fate of Death), Dreams, Blame, Woe, Hesperides (who guards a garden in the corner of the earth that we see in the Hercules myths), Age, Strife, Friendship, Deceit, and possibly some more that I forgot.  Wikipedia list some more that I can’t remember ever learning about in mythology so I’m not sure.  It also list her as mother of the hellhounds.  Not sure on that one.

Nyx, along with Erebus and most of her children are considered personification gods.   This is a statement true of many gods and goddess in mythology.  It is exactly what it sounds like.  They are an abstract like love, darkness, night, dreams, and so on put in human form.  An example of a non personification god would be Hades who is god of the underworld or Zeus, god of the gods.   Think about it this way, Nyx is consider to actually be night rather than the goddess of the night.

In many different myth, Nyx is seen as living in a cave often at the end of the ocean.  She is also sometimes seen as just being a dark mist.  Hmm, that sounds familar.  Zoey in the House of Night novels sometimes travels that same way. 

As for Greek religion, Nyx is persent but not really a main focus.  I’m not familar with their being any temples of Nyx.

Okay now to the modern.  NYX was the name of a comic that ran for a couple years that was an offspin from X-Men.  There was only a handful of issues made.  The comic has nothing to do with the Greek myth though.  NYX means New York District X.

Nyx is also the name of one of the bio weapons that shows up towards the end of the video game Resident Evil Outbreak.  Again, I don’t see any relation to Greek myths.

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          First off, let me say I am in love with Michael Cera.  From his days as George-Michael to my favorite webshow of all time, Clark and Michael, I think he is amazing.   Another thing I love with movies based on comics so I’m so thrilled two of my favorite things are coming together.

          The movie is called Scott Pilgram vs The World.   The premise is that a guy has to defeat seven evil boyfriends to get to the girl he loves.  Sounds great huh?    The movie is based off of a series of comics by Bryan Lee O’Malley.  Well actually the second one in the series I think.   I haven’t read them or even heard of them until today but they sound like something that might be interesting.  It isn’t really the style comic that I’m into.  It sort of a manga-type style drawings which isn’t really my thing.  I don’t know if I’m making sense at all.  I’m into more Neil Gaiman or Michael Turner’s styles; sort of sexy and dark. 

          Have you read Scott Pilgrim?  Do you think it will be a good movie?  What is your favorite comic turned movie?  Or just favorite comic in general.

          Since Comic Con started today I wanted to find news from it.  Mostly there was lots of stuff talking about exactly who was going to be there star wise.  Then finally I found a story about Billy Martin from Good Charlotte.

          Martin is going to cowrite as well as create the artwork for the comic to be named Vitriol the Hunter.  I think it sounds interesting because in the article is says it is going to relate to monster myths and be done in a horror style. 

           Artwork by Martin can already be seen on lots of Good Charlotte albums and merch as well as Level 27 Clothing (Martin’s line) and even conceptually in some of GC’s music videos.     I’d  say that music videos are the closest to comic books.   You have to put together a story board and have the story make a progression.  Well I guess you don’t have to in all videos but the ones that GC puts out normally tell a story.

          I tried to look up Brent Allen but could only find links to this same story (or ones basically the same).  Finally on IMDB it linked his name to Brent Allen Caputo.  I can’t tell for sure if it is the same person.  When I search that name it comes back with information on an actor that has mainly done stunts.  I was hoping to find something that would show his background in comics but no such luck.  If anyone knows more information please share!

          My biggest question about this series is if it will be successful or not.  Will people take Martin seriously as a comic or will he just be regarded as a musician stepping outside his boundary?  What do you think?  Will you pick up his comic?

          If you are at Comic Con (I’m seriously jealous of you by the way) you can actually talk to Martin and Allen on Saturday (??? I think that is the right date).  If you are there let me know how it is going/was?