Oni Press has introduced a particular guide: their first to be promoted by means of a Kickstarter preorder marketing campaign. It’s about ODB. Should you don’t know who that’s, learn on…
Russell Jones was born on the streets of Brooklyn and grew as much as turn out to be one of many founding members of the legendary Wu-Tang Clan. We wouldn’t have him for very lengthy — he died at 35 — however he had a sturdy and profitable profession in his quick life, branching off into solo albums underneath the identify Ol Soiled Bastard (or ODB for you overprotective mother and father on the market). 2024 marks the twentieth anniversary of ODB’s demise, and Oni is getting ready a graphic novel in his honor.
ODB: Oddities, Discord and B-Sides – Lyrical Ruckus within the Metropolis is an anthology guide hosted by ODB himself. How has he appeared from past the grave? Time journey and alternate dimensions. “In a fractured New York Metropolis, an elemental impression occasion has brought on completely different variations of the town’s most notorious neighborhoods from throughout the multiverse to converge collectively right into a single actuality,” reads Oni’s description of the guide.
“Spectral apparitions now hang-out the streets of Queens. Within the Decrease East Aspect, a rogue synthetic intelligence has seized the streets. 100 blocks north, time vacationers are throwing a block social gathering in Harlem. And that’s solely the start… Our information by means of this splintered mutation of New York’s previous, current, and future is none apart from Ol’ Soiled Bastard himself. Observe him as he leads us by means of odd, pressing, and highly effective tales that forged freedom and oppression, wealth and poverty, love and loss, and even life or demise like so many cube in a cosmic recreation of likelihood.”
The marketing campaign — which launched right now — not solely gives the guide, however a 7-inch Tremendous 7 determine of ODB’s Lyrical Ruckus character. A digital copy of the guide prices a $15 pledge, the paperback prices a $25 pledge and the unique Kickstarter hardcover prices a $40 pledge. The determine prices $30 by itself, however might be bundled with the guide at larger tiers. Oni can also be providing different unique merch like an unique “Shimmy Shimmy Ya” 7″ vinyl single that includes all-new cowl artwork by Ronald Wimberly (Prince of Cats).
The ODB graphic novel marketing campaign might be open till January 11; the guide is due for launch in late 2024. Relaxation In Energy ODB.
