By Matt Butcher
Viper Comics keeps putting out good stuff. I love these little trade paperbacks. Quality pages and good construction that somehow make the comic book more palatable, especially for those kids that love those manga and manhwa books nowadays.
That is the perfect target audience for this book. Kids. I will bring this to my ninth grade English classroom and watch the kids gobble it up like candy. My thirteen-year-old daughter liked it.
Oddly Normal volume 2: Family Reunion is about a girl named, oddly enough, Oddly Normal. She is from the outside world, now living in Fignation. For those older, like me, it is the equivalent of that kid in The Never Ending Story going off to the land of imagination to save it. She also has to save the day. She doesn’t want to, but does anyway. That’s a great message for readers.
Oddly Normal vol. 2 is then highly recommended, especially for those of us older comic readers that want to get the young ‘uns to read comics. It is brilliantly illustrated, better than some stuff you see on Nickelodeon and Disney, which will get the kids to think that they are then reading what they normally watch. Viper then, with great titles like A Bit Haywire and Oddly Normal are then starting to bridge that gap, making comics for specific audiences. And I as an older comic reader still got a kick out of them.
Give this one to your kids, after you get done reading it of course. Then you will be grooming them to read the rest of your collection.
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