Brom – Unka Odya
Before the premiere of Brom , comic book fans could mainly associate Unki Odya’s work from the Internet. Her full-length debut turned out to be a very pleasant surprise for me and an interesting mixture of different genres. The main character of the story is a young man named Bronisław or simply Brom. He lives at home with his mother who is fascinated by the supernatural. The real fun begins, however, when Brom is sent to the countryside to his never-before-met cousin Maria. Soon troubles begin to multiply in the heroes’ lives, and a werewolf will stand in their way.
In addition to cousins, we meet other interesting heroes, such as Aleks / Eryk (one body, two personalities). In her story, the author combines fantasy with horror. To balance this mixture, we can also find moral threads here. The atmosphere was strongly associated with the Stranger Things series mixed with Slavic folklore and monsters. The cover itself already announces that we are holding something unusual in our hands. The black and white drawings are kept in a simple but legible style. Brom is 200 pages full of adventures and unusual situations. I would be very happy if it was a whole series about the adventures of teenage heroes. – Paweł Grzelczyk