Five-time Eisner Award–winning horror architect James Tynion IV is not coming to play. The mind behind The Department of Truth, Something Is Killing the Children, and Exquisite Corpses is teaming up with straight-up creative firestarter Marguerite Bennett (Witchblade, Mommy Blog) for a brand-new nightmare titled ODIN—and trust me, this one doesn’t ask permission before wrecking you.
Joining them on this descent into madness is a killer lineup: rising-star artist Letizia Cadonici (House of Slaughter), multiple Eisner-winning colorist Jordie Bellaire (The Nice House on the Lake), precision letterer Tom Napolitano (Red Book), elite designer Dylan Todd (The Department of Truth), and horror maestro editor Steve Foxe (Razorblades). This is not just a team—it’s a horror hit squad.
First revealed via an exclusive scoop at The Hollywood Reporter, ODIN is a nine-issue miniseries dropping in May from Image Comics/Tiny Onion. Don’t expect cozy mythology vibes or a warm cup of mead—this series skips the honey and goes straight for a heavy pour of Nordic nightmare fuel.
Visually? Oh, it’s a feast of dread. Celebrated comic and album artist Alex Eckman-Lawn (Exquisite Corpses, Swan Songs) handles the main Cover A for the entire series. Issue #1 also brings a brutal Cover B by Cadonici, with jaw-dropping variants from Christian Ward, Martin Simmonds, and the legendary Jae Lee. Shelf presence? Locked. 
Tynion explained how this beast came to life: What started as a casual text exchange between him and Bennett about real-world white supremacists claiming Odin as their god quickly spiraled into a darker question—what would the real Norse Odin do to these idiots if he actually showed up? The answer? Something mean. Something brutal. Something horror was born from.
ODIN follows Adela, a thrill-chasing journalist who goes undercover to infiltrate a group of Neo-Nazi punks. She’ll do anything for the perfect story—even trekking into the frozen forests of Norway with people chasing a warped, hate-fueled fantasy of divine destiny. But what waits in those woods isn’t a god that listens… it’s something far older, colder, and completely uninterested in their prayers.
Think Green Room colliding with Midsommar, with a splash of The Ritual, all filtered through a relentless, hallucinogenic nightmare that leaves no taboo untouched.
Bennett doesn’t mince words about what she wants this book to do: she hopes it messes people up. Raises the pucker factor. Drops a block of ice straight into your stomach. The dread doesn’t let up. It’s a death march through frozen hell, designed to wake you up if horror has stopped making you feel anything at all.
Cadonici adds that working with the Tiny Onion team—and with Tynion and Bennett’s script—has been a dream. The characters are vivid, distinct, and alive, making the process less like work and more like unleashing something feral onto the page.
And ODIN is just one weapon in Tiny Onion’s rapidly expanding arsenal. Their publishing and multimedia slate is stacked. Exquisite Corpses and the short film Room Service are heading to the big screen through a two-picture deal with Lyrical Media. Blumhouse has optioned Something Is Killing the Children for both film and animated television. Netflix is developing an adaptation of W0rldtr33. The Woods is also getting the adaptation treatment. And that’s not even touching their adult animated comedy projects with Irony Point and Tipsy Dragon.
Bottom line?
ODIN isn’t mythology cosplay.
It’s a reckoning.
And it’s coming for you this May. 🩸🔥
Odin #1 will be available at comic book stores on Wednesday, May 6:
Cover A by Alex Eckman-Lawn
Cover B by Letizia Cadonici 1:10
Cover C by Christian Ward 1:25
Cover D by Martin Simmonds 1:50
Cover E by Jae Lee 1:100
Cover F by Blank Sketch $5.99
Cover G “Stealth Variant”
Odin will also be available across many digital platforms, including Amazon Kindle, Apple Books, and Google Play.
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