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Dead Of Night: Werewolf By Night #1 (2009)
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Fiction Review by The Gravedigger
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01.10.09
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written by Duane Swiercyznski
Art by Mico Suayan
This re-imagining of Marvel's monster of the 70's, WEREWOLF BY NIGHT, goes back to the basics. It starts off with a lone child being rescued from a slaughter by a SWAT team, then we jump ahead twenty-something years to Jack Russell and his pregnant girlfriend in Philadelphia. he's been lying to her, saying his name is Michael Shepard, and that he has to go out of town once a month for work. What he does instead is lock himself up in a metal chamber he had constructed, so that when he transforms into the werewolf he won't harm anyone.
The transformation is brutal and the werewolf ferocious, more along the lines of the original WEREWOLF BY NIGHT rather than how he was depicted in MOON KNIGHT or later incarnations. What I like best is that the creature leaves him messages, scrawled in his own blood, like "Let me out". This first issue ends on a particularly nasty sequence and will definitely have me picking up the next issue.
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Rating: nan out of 10.0 - votes cast total
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