Exclusive: First look at ODB: ODDITIES, DISCORD, & B-SIDES – LYRICAL RUCKUS IN THE CITY

In November, Oni Press will publish ODB: Oddities, Discord, & B-Sides – Lyrical Ruckus in the City, a new graphic novel commemorating Wu-Tang Clan co-founder Ol’ Dirty Bastard (ODB), 20 years after his passing, aged just 35.

Created in collaboration with Four Screens and ODB’s estate, the genre-crossing book features contributions from Troy-Jeffrey Allen, Paris Alleyne, David Brame, Dojo Gubser, Jay Hero, Maan House, Mike Del Mundo, Jason Pierre, Ike Reed and David Gorden, Chris Robinson, Regine Sawyer, Damion Scott, Felipe Sobreiro, Ronald Wimberly, and many more. We are pleased to share an exclusive preview before its release next month.

Cover by Paris Alleyne

In a fractured New York City, an elemental impact event has caused different versions of the city’s most infamous neighborhoods from across the multiverse to converge together into a single reality. Spectral apparitions now haunt the streets of Queens. In the Lower East Side, a rogue artificial intelligence has seized the streets. A hundred blocks north, time travelers are throwing a block party in Harlem. And that’s only the beginning… Our guide through this splintered mutation of New York’s past, present, and future is none other than Ol’ Dirty Bastard himself. Follow him as he leads us through odd, urgent, and powerful tales that cast freedom and oppression, wealth and poverty, love and loss, and even life or death like so many dice in a cosmic game of chance.

Icelene Jones, ODB’s widow, states, “I am so happy to bring my husband ODB to life in this fantastical graphic novel. ODB: Oddities, Discord and B-Sides – Lyrical Ruckus in the City adds to the ODB legacy and of hip hop as an art form. He was and is an inspiration to my family, children, and fans across the world. It’s been a dream come true to see this book come to life with our incredibly talented partners at Four Screens and Oni Press.”

ODB: Oddities, Discord, & B-Sides – Lyrical Ruckus in the City will be available everywhere books are sold on November 5. Pre-orders are available via Kickstarter now.