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Among The Panels.Wolf Moon #1
Writer: Cullen Bunn
Artist: Jeremy Haun
Publisher: Vertigo
ComicsPrice: $3.99Cullen Bunn has been popping up all over the place in the last few months. It feels like just about every other week a new title with his name plastered on the front finds its way into my hands.
Wolf Moon #1 is another great addition to a writer I am really starting to get behind.
The first thing that needs to be said about
Wolf Moon #1 is that just when I was starting to feel like there was no way else to go with a werewolf story Cullen Bunn slaps me in the face with a new mythos that feels strange at first but by the end of the issue you’re right with him.
The story revolves around a hunter named Dillon Chase who has a hidden vendetta against the monster he is hunting.
It’s easy enough to guess that Dillon has had a run in with a werewolf before seeing as how one of the sides of his face sports giant claw marks. This story feels like any other run of the mill werewolf tale until, through Dillon’s inner monologue, we find out that the werewolf infliction is not caused by bites, scratches, or genetics. No, this time it chooses its victims randomly and only inhabits their bodies for three nights at a time.
Dillon tracks one of the hosts down and through an obscenely viscous fight ends up letting the werewolf escape. Just as the issue is closing, Dillon explains that he used to track down the hosts, once they no longer carried the werewolf, to try and figure out how they were chosen or find a way to get any kind of information that could lead to an answer, but as the latest victim sheds its wolf nature a person from the shadows kidnaps him and dissects him for some reason. This leaves the reader wanting so much more.
Cullen Bunn did a great job adding something new to the werewolf story that is just interesting and different enough to feel fresh.
Jeremy Haun’s art adds another layer of creepiness to an already violent story. His rendering of many different deaths is awesome. This book is pretty gruesome but it doesn’t feel gratuitous. There are a couple of panels that I had to come back to because I felt I missed how truly great the art was. Exploding heads and peeling skin never seemed so beautiful.
Like I stated before Cullen Bunn is starting to become one of my favorite writers to read and after devouring this book it just helps solidify his place on my list. I am looking forward to the next issue and more like it from Bunn.
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