Oddly Normal #1

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Title: Oddly Normal
Issue: 1
Publisher: Viper Comics
Date; March, 2005
Writer: Otis Frampton
Artist: Otis Frampton
Editor: Jim Resnowski

Oddly Normal is the name of this series. It's also the name of the lead character, a young half-witch who has discovered that having green hair, pointed ears, and an aversion to water does not exactly translate into popularity at school. Her parents, a witch from Fignation (the world of everything imaginary) and a normal guy from Earth, can be a bit clueless about what Oddly is going through.

But when a botched birthday party leads to a wish-gone-badly-wrong, Oddly will finally get the chance to journey to her mother's homeworld, and that's just the beginning of her adventure.

This was fun. The opening laid on the school angst a bit thick, but there were some really great details and brief but fun deconstruction of The Wizard of Oz. Once the plot gets going, Oddly is shifted over to Fignation fairly quickly, but we don't get to see very much of her new home before we come to the end of this book. What we do see looks pretty intriguing, though.

Good lead character, and a plot that is off to a clever start.

Rating: 7.5/10