'The wandering god') is the third comic book by the Italian writer and artist Fabrizio Dori, published by Oblomov Edizioni in 2018.

The reviews were positive, especially about Il dio vagabondo's visuals, and stressed how the book uses art history and combines ancient mythology with modern content.

[2] According to Dori, the starting point for Il dio vagabondo was an image he conceived of a satyr running through nature that is full of life.

[3] In the outskirts of a modern city, the satyr Eustis lives in a tent, drinks wine, sells divinations that are stories he tells when inebriated, and talks about how he used to be part of Dionysus' ecstatic procession, the thiasus.

As they fall asleep, the professor is able to talk to Phantasos, Phobetor and Morpheus, and his knowledge of classics leads him to a revelation about the Sphinx' location.

Ares returns and is furious, but Leandros is able to hold up in combat against Alala, the spirit of the war cry, allowing them to escape.

Bidding farewell to Aline, Eustis realises it is full moon and hurries to the entrance to the underworld, where Hades greets him and receives the Sphinx.

Dori names Friedrich Hölderlin's poem "Bread and Wine [de]" as an influence and it is quoted inside Il dio vagabondo.

[2][4] Dori associates the satyr protagonist, and his connection to Dionysus, with theories about the Dionysian spirit laid out by Friedrich Nietzsche in the book The Birth of Tragedy.

[4] Homer's Odyssey, with Circe's island, and Carlo Collodi's The Adventures of Pinocchio, with the Land of Toys, were inspirations for Aphrodite's amusement park.

Dori thought the larger implications of the Greek view of death as a limitation are relevant for the current age, and made it a subject in Il dio vagabondo.

Dori draws parallels between the margins of society, the outskirts of a city and how the story of Il dio vagabondo takes place at the fringes of the mind and rationality.

At the same time, the professor sees things in a different way from most humans, suggested by his poor eyesight and his revelatory dream.

He wrote that it combines Dori's three passions: art, classicism and pop, and still retains a lightness despite its postmodern games, resulting in a comic that recalls the works of Hayao Miyazaki and Baru [fr; it].

He said Il dio vagabondo is worth reading and looking at multiple times, but a weakness may be that it does not explore the truly dark side of its Dionysian subject.

[2] Federico Beghin of Lo spazio bianco called Il dio vagabondo an expression of love for storytelling which manages to be educational but not didactic.

[8] Le Parisien's Christophe Levent described Il dio vagabondo as poetic, dreamlike and colourful, emphasising its humour, mix of styles and disparate references.

[16] Benoît Cassel wrote for Planète BD that the story is unpredictable and unusual in the way it adapts Greek mythology for current socio-political issues.

[10] The French edition of Il dio vagabondo was awarded the Prix Ouest-France at the comics festival Quai des Bulles [fr] in 2019.

[18] Doiri planned Il dio vagabondo as a one-volume work, but his fascination with Greek mythology and investment in the world he had created made him make another comic book about Eustis.

[20] It revolves around how Eustis has to educate the son of Pan and Selene, and how the professor's daughter, who works at a large company, finds her father's diary and looks for traces of him.