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Devil\u2019s Due\u2019s newest series \u201cThe Odd Squad\u201d is like The X-Files is headed by two of the three chicks from \u201cMean Girls,\u201d and yet in spite of my inherent annoyance with the trite dialogue and cheesy pop culture references, I really enjoyed it.<\/p>\n
As a guilty pleasure, \u201cThe Odd Squad\u201d is a routine science fiction supernatural comedy series about a bubbly blond and her equally bubbly blonde sister who are asked to head a branch of the Office of Dimensional Defense to investigate the paranormal. Charlotte Springs is a simple college professor who isn\u2019t as dumb as she looks, and she is forced to work with Frank Flood, a local stiff working for the government who has to team with both sisters to explore why the president\u2019s son is turning in to a beast during the night. And by beast, I mean literal bipedal hairy beast.<\/p>\n
While \u201cThe Odd Squad\u201d can be bothersome with the attempted comedic dialogue that\u2019s either flat or just plain annoying, the storyline actually works once you get in to it, and I was rather surprised to find myself chuckling at Flood pointing a gun at a professor dressed in a chicken outfit. Apparently something is happening in Oregon that no one can explain and the anomalies become even weirder when a woman is found flying above an officer with large wings, picking flowers. In spite of the occasionally irksome dialogue, the characters are genuinely funny.<\/p>\n
Cindy started out as a nuisance and quickly became a source of comedic relief, while Mr. Apollo is hysterical as the mentalist assigned to the team who may or may not be a complete fraud. And let\u2019s not forget the Trekkie scientist. Charlotte Springs is actually not as vapid a character as she is perceived to be in the opening pages and her depth becomes apparent as the first issue trogs along. Flood is also a great straight man who is teamed with a batch of weirdos and losers he\u2019ll have to endure for the series, like it or not. I could easily imagine him being played by Adam Baldwin, should a movie be made.<\/p>\n
You know it will. While the issues aspires at Mel Brooks level of humor and puns, it can never quite get there frankly because it\u2019s a fifty fifty bet most of the one liners will either be rib tickling funny, or so utterly hideous, and writer Todd Livingston really seems to be looking for a balance with the paranormal activity and the slapstick with the mini-series. The Fraim Brothers art work is fantastic providing the right tone of light hearted tongue in cheek character designs that keep this an easy read. Though it may eventually be a series, issue 1 of 3 for \u201cThe Odd Squad\u201d is a fun comic and I\u2019ll keep up with it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Devil\u2019s Due\u2019s newest series \u201cThe Odd Squad\u201d is like The X-Files is headed by two of the three chicks from \u201cMean Girls,\u201d and yet in spite of my inherent annoyance with the trite dialogue and cheesy pop culture references, I really enjoyed it. As a guilty pleasure, \u201cThe Odd Squad\u201d is a routine science fiction […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[219,477,703,906],"class_list":["post-3741","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-rot-your-brain","tag-comedy","tag-horror","tag-mystery","tag-science-fiction"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3741","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3741"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3741\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3741"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3741"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3741"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}