Author James Tynion IV has made a best-selling and Eisner-winning career writing comics that combine real world fears and settings with dark monstrosities. The Internet ran amok in his comic Worldtr33, toxic friendships became entangled in his Nice House On… books, the moneyed elite behaved badly in Exquisite Corpses.
Now Tynion has set his sights on white supremacy.
The writer, perhaps best known for his best-selling Something is Killing the Children, is teaming up with Marguerite Bennett for Odin, a new original horror comic book series that sees neo-Nazi punks face ancient Norse beings.
Letizia Cadonici, who has been drawing Tynion’s House of Slaughter title, is handling the art for Odin, which will be a nine-issue limited series that debuts in May from Image Comics. The news was announced Thursday at ComicPro, the annual meeting of comic book industry retailers, publishers, and distributors held in Glendale, California.
Colorist Jordie Bellaire, lettered Tom Napolitano, designer Dylan Todd, and editor Steve Foxe make up the rest of the creative team.
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.
“Marguerite and I have been talking about this story for years,” said Tynion in a statement. “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.”
Odin is the latest title to come out of Tiny Onion, Tynion’s publishing and multimedia production house he launched in 2024 with the backing of Lyrical Media. Also announced at ComicsPro was include the expansion of Exquisite Corpses, a horror comic that began just as limited series, into a veritable franchise.
Tynion has been moving prolifically not just on the publishing side but screen side as well. Blumhouse Productions has also optioned Something is Killing the Children to adapt both for film and for an animated television series. Also on the development slate is an adaptation of Tynion’s Image Comics series W0rldtr33 set up at Netflix; an adaptation of his Boom! Studios series The Woods; and Tipsy Dragon, an original adult animated comedy series developed with production company Irony Point, among others.
The first issue of Odin will feature variant covers by comic and album artist Alex Eckman-Lawn (Swan Songs), who is illustrating the main Cover A for the full series. Additional variant artists include Cadonici, Christian Ward (Spectregraph), Martin Simmonds (The Department of Truth), and Jae Lee (Exquisite Corpses).
As for the other scribe behind the book, Bennett is penning the new Witchblade reboot and wrote the terrifying graphic novel Mommy Blog, released last year.
Odin no. 1 is due to hit at stores on May 6. Check out the covers below.
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