Published: 24, June 2008
Genre: Biographical, Crime Manga, Fiction, Graphic Novel, Historical, Horror Manga, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Odd Thomas Graphic Novels Book 1
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Summary
In Odd We Trust is a prequel to the original
Odd Thomas novel,
In Odd We Trust, Odd is visited by the spirit of a little child, and he sets off on a journey to find the boy's killer so that his ghost can move on.
Odd's friend, Chief of Police Wyatt Porter, gives some facts about the case and informs him that the corpse was discovered by the boy's babysitter. Sherry Sheldon, a childhood acquaintance of Odd's lover and soulmate, Stormy Llewellyn, turns out to be the babysitter.
Sherry claims that a stalker has been writing her unsettling letters for several months, and she suspects that the stalker is the killer. Odd and Stormy make the decision to apprehend the stalker before he murders again.
Odd urges the spirit of the small child to assist him in locating his murderer, and Joey brings him to a street corner where he notices a strange figure. When Odd attempts to address him, the man escapes. Odd pursues, but his target escapes when he slips over a yard gnome.
Four neighborhood kids are thought to be targets since each has received a message from the killer. Chief Porter dispatches police escorts to each of the homes, and Odd and Stormy opt to spend the night with Sherry at the home where she is babysitting a girl called Angelica.
Odd deduces that the killer is nearby, taunting them, from the discovery of an empty automobile with a mangled mannequin by the policeman on a stakeout at the residence.
He opens the doors of a nearby vehicle and sees the man he was chasing before. He and Odd exchange veiled threats, but when Stormy appears with a gun, the man flees.
Chief Porter follows the van's registration plates to a man named Kyle Bernshaw and provides Odd with the address.
Odd and Stormy enter into Bernshaw's residence, where they discover massive heaps of magazines (from which his enigmatic writings have been torn and glued together) and a message to Odd explaining that this was a trap.
Odd turns to find himself encircled by a savage dog, from which he is miraculously spared at the last moment by Joey's spirit. Odd and Stormy rush back to the house where they last saw Sherry, only to discover that Angelica's parents have dismissed her and she has fled.
Odd understands that Sherry, not one of the four youngsters under police protection, has always been the intended victim.
They rent a car and, using Odd's psychic attraction (a power that pulls him to people if he concentrates on them while driving); they track down Bernshaw in an abandoned slaughterhouse.
Odd battles him with minimal success until Stormy shoots him in the leg, causing Odd to subdue him. Sherry is freed from the trunk of Bernshaw's automobile.
The murderer is apprehended but refuses to confess, believing that he will be given an opportunity to go since he has struck a bargain with the devil, and whatever he desires always comes to him.
He threatens to divulge Odd's name and powers to the world, causing a media frenzy, something Odd fears the most. Odd lies and says that he, too, has given his soul to the devil for his abilities, but just as he is about to take Bernshaw into his confidence, a guard collapses and the killer grabs the guard's revolver. He shoots, but the bullet ricochets off Odd's chair. Bernshaw is killed by the bullet.
Angelica's parents re-hire Sherry, and the narrative concludes with Odd and Stormy reflecting on the joyful ending they were able to achieve.
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