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This strip's a perfect example of how your choice of medium affects the story you tell. For example, the original Homeric poems were memorised and recited orally, so they have to sound good and be easy to remember, hence their use of repeated descriptions and stock scenes.
I don't have that problem. My problem is limitations in my Lego parts. So, rather than showing the meat disguised as organs, or appetising glistening fat (which I'm pretty sure are not standard Lego bricks), I had Zeus reject it on sight. This actually affects the interpretation quite a lot.
In Hesiod's version, Zeus is aware of the deceit, but plays along anyway so he has an excuse to punish Prometheus. In Lego, Zeus has to actually be fooled for the physical setup to work.
So the needs of this scene have essentially set my interpretation of Zeus for this version. He is paranoid and cunning, much like his Titanic ancestors, but he's not exactly the brightest pebble on the mountain (His intelligence was, after all, stolen from Metis, so there's a good chance he doesn't know how to use it properly.)