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Gerry Conway returns, with Tom Sutton (who can draw the werewolf and the homeless villains fine, it’s just people where he has problems), with a far better issue than the series has seen in a while. Most of it is action, but Conway packs in a lot of story too. He makes it through a […]

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Four issues in to the regular series (and his last consecutive issue for a few), Gerry Conway has finally lost it. Not totally, but in every way that matters. This issue takes place over a night and is all action–a great white hunter goes after Jack (as the Werewolf) in an old Western movie set […]

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Conway really gets his pacing down in this issue again–it’s so dense, I kept expecting each next page to be the last because of that fullness. Even though it features the werewolf in another fight scene, it’s real abbreviated, instead giving Ploog the chance to draw Jack’s sister, Lissa, on the run from a deadly […]

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When Mike Ploog art can’t save a story, there’s something really wrong with it. In this issue’s case, it’s the pacing. Well, no, it’s actually not. The pacing is a problem–the story opens with the third night of one month’s full moon and an action scene, then a long pause, then the first night of […]

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Werewolf by Night has, with his third and fourth appearances (the latter starting his solo book), a clear problem… his adventures involve guest-stars. Werewolf by Night #1 features–in addition to some of the most beautiful Ploog panels I can remember (it’s like he was holding out on sequences for the solo book, particularly the transformation […]

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