Series Review: Oddly Normal

Oddly Normal - Image Comics for Kids

Oddly Normal, a new comic book written for children, is one of the best comic books to hit shelves in recent months! Knowing it was intended for children; I picked up a copy to see what age-group it was best suited too, and was blown away. This is one heck of a great story!

Oddly Normal is the story of a typical teenager; picked on by everyone, hating her life and wishing her strange parents would just “leave her alone.” Oddly Normal (this is also the character’s name) is a classic set-up involving misunderstood youth, something to which anyone who has gone through middle-school can certainly relate. Oddly just wants to have a normal life and today Oddly gets her wish. Her life is going to take a very strange turn indeed. What Oddly is soon to learn is that the grass is not always greener on the other side.

Writer and artist, Otis Frampton conveys the turmoil and dramatics of the teenage years exceptionally well. Oddly’s depression and inward focus that comes with being young is portrayed so well that readers start to develop a sympathy for Oddly, for we have all experienced this as young adults. Frampton’s use of color and tones enhances the plot, adding to the sense of Oddly’s despair and misery.

This is one of the best all-ages comic to come out in quite some time. It is easy to read and people of all ages, especially, “tweeners” will fall in love with Oddly Normal. Pick up a copy of the great all-ages comic book, Oddly Normal, today.

 - Barbie66

Oddly Normal is available for order from the Best Comic Book Store on-line, White Dragon Comics.