House of Odd
Landry Q. Walker, Dean Koontz, & Queenie Chan

Transforming a ramshackle mansion into a dream house has become a nightmare for onetime Hollywood producer Nedra Nolan, whose newly purchased fixer-upper in Pico Mundo has sent a string of spooked contractors scurrying off the job, claiming the place is haunted. Who's she gonna call? Her friend recommends Odd Thomas, the mild mannered young man with a gift for communing with ghosts who won't rest in peace. With his soul mate and sidekick, Stormy Llewellyn, in tow, Odd agrees to investigate the eerie incidents. But his spirit seeking style is cramped by the obnoxious TV ghost hunters Nedra hires to flush out the troublesome phantoms with elaborate gadgets.
As night falls and a raging storm traps them all in the mazelike manse, Odd tries in vain to scare up some lost souls. But instead, something more terrifying than any apparition - something with flesh, blood, and teeth - makes its sinister presence known. And with nowhere to hide, Odd and his fellow hunters suddenly become the prey.

While this is the best of the Odd Thomas graphic novels/manga, it is still flawed in two main ways.

The first is that in the beginning of this manga, Odd refers to some of the things that have happened to him in the other Koontz novels. Things that have happened after a major character died in the first novel. And yet, this character is here by his side, alive, in this installation even she should be dead.

The second is that it's been said many times in many of the Odd novels that he doesn't want most people to know that he can see and communicate with the dead. So why would he be find with Nedra knowing about what he can do? It doesn't make any sense.

Those two issues aside, this is the best of the Odd Thomas mangas out there. The story is fun to read and is something that fits in well with this type of media - it wouldn't work well in novel form. First, it would be more of a short story and second, it just works better with the graphics.

The story is engaging and while it doesn't seem like something Odd would be caught up in, it is a fun read with a nice ending.

If you feel the need to read any of the Odd Thomas graphic novels/mangas, this should be the one. But still, I stand by the face that the novels are much better than these are.

My rating: Three and a half out of five snails.