Alex lands in London, shifting form several times as he sets up living arrangements and a place to carry out his research. However, whatever it is that Alex is trying to find has attracted the attention of someone, or something, very dangerous…

There’s an undeniably Hellboy-esque feel to the art in this first issue of Otherkin. The story’s focus on the supernatural and magical creatures, clashing with urban realism, also recalls comics by Mike Mignola (with comics such as Alan Moore’s legendary run on Swamp Thing and Garth Ennis’s Hellblazer also cited as influences by Otherkin’s creators).

It’s told in a very decompressed style, and given that so much of what happens here is told using subtle, visual clues, Otherkin absolutely demands that the reader slows down and pays attention to every little detail. Alex’s shape shifting, for example, is often conveyed in a very low key way, and it can be easy to miss what’s truly happening as the story progresses at some points.

Yet the necessity to truly take in what’s happening in every panel gives Otherkin a very immersive feel, and though we aren’t immediately clued in to everything that’s going on in this first issue, it lays the groundwork in a very interesting way, and compels the reader to seek out the next issue of this urban fantasy series immediately.

Currently on a bi-monthly publishing schedule, with issue 3 recently released, you can get yourself physical copies of Otherkin from DerryComics. You can read Otherkin digitally, as I did, via GlobalComix.

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