Nightwolf #0
Nightwolf #0 is a prequel to a mini-series coming from Devil's Due Publishing next month called Nightwolf: The Price. I thought that the covers and solicitations were interesting, so I wanted to check it out. Little did I know that I would get a sneak preview into the world of Nightwolf a month early at a mere 99 cents.
Now, Nightwolf is written by Stephen L. Antczak with art by Nick Marinkovich, and the talent of the latter I think far outdoes the former. The story here is muddled and murky. As a reader, I had to do a lot more work than I should have for a straight-forward genre work. I didn't get that there was a family curse involved or anything from the work itself, but from things I read about it. That being said though, the art is really something. I don't know who Marinkovich is, but he's the perfect artist for a book like this. It's really the quality you'd expect to see coming from IDW nowadays, with moody, realistic pencils. The opening panel is just awesome - a punk with his throat ripped out just couldn't have been conveyed better. Marinkovich draws a sexy protagonist and a mean werewolf (who happen to be one and the same).
The premise is of a man cursed to become a werewolf once a month under the full moon, and to make up for the death and destruction caused on that one night, he induces a controlled version of the wolf (that he dubs "Nightwolf") to come out every other night to fight for justice on the streets. It's kind of a cool idea. The art's there, but we'll have to see if the writer can pull his act together to make a really compelling horror mini-series or not. So far, the characters are there, the premise is there, even a plot. It's just a matter of setting things up right for the series, with just a little more clarity on the circumstances surrounding the main situation. We'll just have to see where it takes us next month.
Now, Nightwolf is written by Stephen L. Antczak with art by Nick Marinkovich, and the talent of the latter I think far outdoes the former. The story here is muddled and murky. As a reader, I had to do a lot more work than I should have for a straight-forward genre work. I didn't get that there was a family curse involved or anything from the work itself, but from things I read about it. That being said though, the art is really something. I don't know who Marinkovich is, but he's the perfect artist for a book like this. It's really the quality you'd expect to see coming from IDW nowadays, with moody, realistic pencils. The opening panel is just awesome - a punk with his throat ripped out just couldn't have been conveyed better. Marinkovich draws a sexy protagonist and a mean werewolf (who happen to be one and the same).
The premise is of a man cursed to become a werewolf once a month under the full moon, and to make up for the death and destruction caused on that one night, he induces a controlled version of the wolf (that he dubs "Nightwolf") to come out every other night to fight for justice on the streets. It's kind of a cool idea. The art's there, but we'll have to see if the writer can pull his act together to make a really compelling horror mini-series or not. So far, the characters are there, the premise is there, even a plot. It's just a matter of setting things up right for the series, with just a little more clarity on the circumstances surrounding the main situation. We'll just have to see where it takes us next month.
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