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ODY-C: Sons of the Wolf (Image Comics, 2014; #6-10)

Some books make for good late-night reading when you get home from the second night of tech week.  Some books make for weird late-night reading when you get home from the second night of tech week.  ODY-C straddles the line between the two.

  • To be fair, ODY-C thrives in its weirdness, so I doubt that had anything to do the hour or level of tiredness I felt while reading it.
  • While Fraction’s script is no slouch, Christian Ward’s art steals the show in this book.
  • It’s trippy and psychadelic, reality-warping and brutal.
  • This volume is rife with brutality; that should not be a surprise given the source material, but Fraction and Ward do not shy away from it at all.
  • Turns out, Fraction wasn’t joking about slipping Moby Dick into ODY-C.

If you liked the first arc of ODY-C, odds are you’ll enjoy the second.  You definitely need to start from the beginning, though.

Collected in

  • ODY-C, Vol. 2: Sons of the Wolf (#6-10)
  • ODY-C: Cycle One (#1-12)

Credits

Writer: Matt Fraction | Artist: Christian Ward | Letterer: Chris Eliopoulos | Flatter: Dee Cunniffe | Editor: Lauren Sankovitch | Designers: Christian Ward, Drew Gill

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