NEO NAZI PUNKS FACE THE DARK WILES OF ANCIENT NORSE BEINGS IN JAMES TYNION IV, MARGUERITE BENNETT & LETIZIA CADONICI’S HORROR SERIES ODIN
- Byron O'Neal
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Five-time Eisner Award-winning writer James Tynion IV (The Department of Truth, Something is Killing the Children, Exquisite Corpses) is teaming up with dynamo co-writer Marguerite Bennett (Witchblade, Mommy Blog), rising star artist Letizia Cadonici (House of Slaughter), multiple Eisner Award winning colorist Jordie Bellaire (The Nice House on the Lake, Assorted Crisis Events), high-flying letterer Tom Napolitano (Red Book), top-notch designer Dylan Todd (The Department of Truth), and horror mastermind editor Steve Foxe (Razorblades) for an all-new horror tale in the upcoming Odin. This nine-issue miniseries was first announced via an exclusive scoop at The Hollywood Reporter yesterday and promises to go light on the honeyed mead, but will tip a heavy pour of Nordic nightmare fuel when it hits shelves in May from Image Comics/Tiny Onion.
Odin will be stunningly presented with covers by celebrated comic and album artist Alex Eckman-Lawn (Exquisite Corpses, Swan Songs), who is illustrating the main Cover A for the full series. For the debut issue, Cadonici illustrated Cover B with additional variants by lauded artists Christian Ward (Spectregraph), Martin Simmonds (The Department of Truth), and Jae Lee (Exquisite Corpses).
"Marguerite and I have been talking about this story for years. It all started as a text conversation about a group of white supremacists we'd seen a story about online, talking about their faith in Odin, and then we started talking about what the real norse Odin would do with these idiots if he had the chance. It felt pretty immediately clear that there was a mean and brutal horror story in it and we wanted to tell it together." - writer James Tynion
Odin follows Adela, a thrill-seeking journalist who goes undercover to report on a band of Neo Nazis. She will do anything for the perfect story, including heading into the frozen forests of Norway with Neo Nazi punks who seek Odin to achieve their promised white supremacist destiny. But what awaits them in the woods is far older and stranger than any of them can comprehend, and no gods are coming to answer their prayers. Green Room meets Midsommar with a touch of The Ritual in this relentless hallucinogenic thriller that leaves absolutely no taboo unbroken.
Bennett added: “The plain truth is I hope it fucks people up, ups their pucker factor, puts ice in the pit of their stomach. The dread, doom, and desolation is truly unrelenting. We are on a death march through the frozen bowels of the ninth hell. If you've been feeling burned out or jaded, I hope this is the needle that pierces to the core: the injection that opens your senses back up to the wonder and horror of God.”
"Working with the Tiny Onion team is just wonderful. I'm so lucky to be on this journey with these amazing people,” said Cadonici. “And working on James and Marguerite's script is extremely easy, which is how you understand that they are great writers. They've created an incredible cast of characters, each with their own personality, and I'm having a blast bringing out the essence of each of them."
Odin joins Tiny Onion’s aggressive slate of publishing and multimedia projects. It was announced last month that bestselling comic book series Exquisite Corpses and short film Room Service are both getting the feature treatment as part of a two-picture deal between Tiny Onion and producing partner Lyrical Media. Blumhouse Productions has also optioned Tynion’s groundbreaking comics horror franchise, Something is Killing the Children, to adapt both for film and for an animated television series with Tynion attached to produce alongside the series publisher BOOM! Studios. Plus, Tiny Onion’s expansive development slate in animation includes an adaptation of Tynion’s Image Comics series W0rldtr33 at Netflix, an adaptation of his BOOM! Studios series The Woods, and an original adult animated comedy series developed with production company Irony Point, Tipsy Dragon.
COVER GALLERY
Odin #1 will be available at comic book stores on Wednesday, May 6:
Cover A by Alex Eckman-Lawn
Cover B by Letizia Cadonici 1:10
Cover C by Christian Ward 1:25
Cover D by Martin Simmonds 1:50
Cover E by Jae Lee 1:100
Cover F by Blank Sketch $5.99
Cover G "Stealth Variant"
Odin will also be available across many digital platforms, including Amazon Kindle, Apple Books, and Google Play.
ABOUT JAMES TYNION IV
CEO and Founder of independent production house Tiny Onion, James Tynion IV is a five-time Eisner Award-winning, New York Times bestselling writer and publisher of comic books. He is best known for co-creating hit horror comics series like Something is Killing the Children, Exquisite Corpses, The Nice House on the Lake, The Deviant, and The Department of Truth. He is also the writer of Young Adult adventure series, like multiple GLAAD Media Award-nominated Wynd, and the 2017 GLAAD Media Award winner The Woods. Tynion is co-producing animation and live action adaptations of many of his projects and original stories. He spent ten years writing various Batman titles at DC Comics, where he co-created exciting new characters like Punchline and Ghost-Maker. He lives and works in Brooklyn. Tynion is represented by Jason Richman at UTA, Zac Frognowski and Jared Ceizler at Brillstein, and Caitlin DiMotta at Troygould.
ABOUT MARGUERITE BENNETT
Marguerite Bennett is a GLAAD Award-nominated, New York Times-bestselling comic book writer based in Los Angeles. Her credits include writing the bestselling new Witchblade reimagining for Top Cow/Image Comics and the hit one-shot horror comic Mommy Blog from Ninth Circle and Image Comics. She’s also written on DC’s Bombshells, Batwoman, Batgirl, Supergirl, and RWBY, and worked with Game of Thrones superstar Emilia Clarke on her Image Comics project Mother of Madness. She scribed Mighty Morphin Power Rangers and Sleepy Hollow series for BOOM! Studios, Josie and the Pussycats for Archie Comics, A-Force, Angela, and Years Of Future Past for Marvel, and Red Sonja and Sheena for Dynamite. Her prose has appeared in The Secret Loves Of Geek Girls and Becoming Dangerous. Her work is full of queer characters, heroines, villainesses, talking animals, bloody revenge sagas, female monsters, murder, and kissing.
ABOUT LETIZIA CADONICI
Letizia Cadonici is an Italian comic book artist born in Rome. She has worked for several Italian comic book publishers mostly in the gothic or horror genre. She has notably illustrated House of Slaughter, Book of Slaughter, The Neighbors, and Hello Darkness for BOOM! Studios, Creepshow for Skybound, and has been a cover artist for comics produced by Tiny Onion and published by Image Comics and Titan Comics.
She recently illustrated It Killed Everyone But Me from Mad Cave Studios.
ABOUT JORDIE BELLAIRE
Jordie Bellaire is an Eisner and Ringo-Award winning colorist known for her work on The Nice House on the Lake, Birds of Prey, Absolute Wonder Woman, and many more acclaimed titles. Jordie is among the creative, creepy brains fueling the multi-collaborator project Exquisite Corpses for Tiny Onion, and is also a part of the Artists in Residence program at Tiny Onion. Following her Eisner Award-nominated writing debut with Redlands, she has written on Buffy The Vampire Slayer for BOOM! Studios and Adventures of Young Diana for DC Comics. She lives in Portland, Oregon with her husband, two dogs and one cat that are allowed to sleep in the bed.
ABOUT TOM NAPOLITANO
Tom Napolitano’s balloons and onomatopoeias have been featured in comics published by BOOM! Studios, Dark Horse, Dynamite, Humanoids, Image Comics, Penguin Random House, and DC Comics. Some of these titles include The Joker, Black Sight, GRIM, The Closet, Kaya, and many more. Tom’s lettering has been featured in Eisner Award-nominated stories Animal Castle, Detective Comics #1027 “The Rookie” and LUGOSI: The Rise and Fall of Hollywood’s Dracula. He was the letterer and interior book designer for the Bram Stoker’s and Rondo Hatton’s Award winning graphic novel, Kolchak: The Night Stalker-50th Anniversary.
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