Yes folks, it is time for another great comic book from Image Comics. I recently picked up the first 4 issues of a new series called Wayward. This comic features stories by Jim Zub (of Samurai Jack and Skullkickers fame) with line art by Steve Cummings (who has worked on Elektra, The Flash, and Deadshot) and color by Tamra Bonvillain (lighting it up for Blackout, Curse, Sleepyhollow, and Penny Dora and the Wishing Box).
Wayward is a great story about a half Irish, half Japanese girl that leaves her father's home in Ireland to live with her mother in Tokyo. She has bright red hair and muddles through her understanding of her mother's native tongue. It is a story about trying to fit in where you feel you don't belong.
The great twists and turns come when the girl, Rori, finds out she has a special gift...a supernatural power...that leads her to find others in Tokyo that are different thus finding a way to fit in together. The story weaves in a lot of great myth and folklore that is native to Japan and at the end of each comic Zack Davisson, a scholar of Japanese Folklore, gives an understanding of the current issues myth and any creatures that make their way onto the pages.
If you love a more traditional looking anime, but also love the new world of color and fantastical themes then this is the series for you. I eagerly await the new issue.
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