by Josh Powell, Editor-at-Large

Official Description:
AN UNHOLY ALLIANCE! In the shadows of black-and-white night, Jack Russell races to halt the sacrifice of a young girl at the hands of monsters. Elsa Bloodstone, in all her colorful monster-hunting glory, isn’t far behind. But can they put their differences aside long enough to save the day? And what would such a partnership even look like?

Temperatures must be beginning to slip and comic shop denizens in some areas of the globe must even be looking ahead to some changing foliage, because here comes an installment of the latest adventures of Jack Russell, Werewolf By (not surprisingly)… Night!  Seems like every year around this time Marvel drops in to check out the doings of the Monster Squad chapter of the character stable and here is Jack and lovely don’t-dare-call-her-a-sidekick Elsa Bloodstone in plenty of time for Halloween.  Last year around this time both appeared in the stylishly black-and-white Disney+ Werewolf by Night special that was well received.

For this outing, Jack and Elsa converge unbeknownst to each other on the castle of the never before seen and never to be seen again Doktor Nekromantik who just finished kidnapping a girl from the village below to use as fodder for his latest fiendish veil-piercing experiment.  W.B.N. has dropped his admittedly rather redundant moniker in favor of King of All Wolves, but will that be enough to save the day?

THRILL to the exploits of the daring duo as an army of undead, pseudo-dead, and beyond dead creatures of nightmare try to stand up to the combined assault of a chick with a shotgun and a man so angry about being named after a terrier that he periodically turns into the most yoked version of one imaginable!  SHUDDER at the fate of the girl they were supposed to help who kind of got lost in the tide of their captioned quippery!  CHUCKLE at Jack’s dejection when his intentions of getting a little post-action wind-down nookie are derailed when Elsa realizes the awful truth that comic book Jack is not Gael Garcia Bernal, but is instead one of the few men who actually LOSES hair when he transforms into a lycanthrope!

Rating:
ComicsOnline gives Werewolf by Night #1 Derek Landy and Fran Galan’s trip to (stateside)Transylvania 3 out of 5 easily dispatched Lovecraftian monstrosities.  

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