Dean Koontz: In Odd We Trust
I am an Odd fan. I enjoy his adventures and truly believe he is an innocent person with great strength. That said I am not sure this is really a valuable addition to the Odd story.
It is a prequel to the adventures of the novels. It is a graphic novel in the anime type drawing style. The problem I have is that it focuses too much on the drawing and not on the story. From beginning to end it took me a little more then an hour to read. The story had a scene from the Odd Thomas books with him chasing someone across yards only this time he doesn’t catch the person. There is also the repeating of finding a kidnapped person and escaping from the bad guy. Only this time the bad guy was quickly subdued and captured. My main problems though were that the bad guy is found way to quickly and easily and a character never mentioned in the books is introduced who should have been important enough to Stormy to at least have been mentioned in the books. Essentially, it felt dumbed down and robbed of the essence that make Odd Thomas great. Probably the best part was him arguing with Angelica about flying monkeys.
Don’t get me wrong it is an interesting idea to do a graphic novel of a character. Am I glad I read it? Yes, it was fun despite being dumbed down. Could the series have lived without it? Yes. I would have been much more interested in some of the stories mentioned in passing throughout the books of other adventures he has had. I think there is one about being tied up to a dead guy and dumped in the lake. I was hoping it would go that way and give more insight on some of the early adventures that we are teased with in the book.
Dean Koontz, you could have done so much better.
