Bad Idea’s Fantasy Series ‘Odinn’s Eye’ Gets Collected For The Holidays

by Olly MacNamee

Before the Bad Idea’s Planet Death and The Hab, came Odinn’s Eye. The former was illustrated by the incomparable Tomás Giorello, while The Hab was written by Joshua Dysart. Both of them created the comic book series Odinn’s Eye. A five-issue series that is now going to be collected in trade paperback by Bad Idea and released just in time for Christmas. Giving me the perfect excuse to preview this stunning-looking series once again. Enjoy…

“Solveig, a young farm girl of great promise, is haunted by visions from the god-king Odinn himself. In words she cannot understand, and images too violent for a child to comprehend, Odinn tasks Solveig with a brutal mission: retrieve his eye — the one he famously traded for wisdom — and bring it to him.

In the real world, the winter season has not left the land of Solveig’s people for several years. As crops fail and livestock perish, fear and panic grow. In their desperation to appease the gods and free the land of this never-ending winter, the tribe turns to the child whose visions are surely a sign from Odinn. A war party is assembled. Solveig and a band of warriors — including an all-seeing witch — are sent north on a great quest — one which will change all that she knows, all who she has known, and all that she will become.”