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2.5/5 stars
"Seriously? This is Raymond Chandler convoluted ."I loved bits and bobs (character design, the occasional quip, and how the characters of this world react to the fantastic as if it's the mundane) but the plot was somewhat difficult to follow and some characters didn't feel fully fleshed-out.
BCDER: 80I'm not smart enough to always understand Ales Kot's story lines, but I find "Wolf" fairly straightforward with a few disjointed shifts that caused me to backtrack. I really like the way Kot blends several familiar comic book tropes together and I am excited about the future of this series. Lee Loughridge kills the coloring!
Strong premise, mediocre execution for the first 4 issues. (YMMV, of course.)I like the title enough to continue with it for now, though.
Obtuse and obnoxious to read, with (in my opinion) ugly and poorly rendered art, and a deliberately confusing and disjointed story. Plus pretentiousness. When your idea of clever character writing is to write a demon (?) who pronounces almost all of his r’s as f’s, you are in trouble. And you are writing dialogue which is painful to read.Feally, feally painful to fead.Nearly as painful is the eye-rolling squid-faced kid who talks in absurd alliteration. Kind of he just talks in bad lines of poet...
Antoine Wolfe is a paranormal detective in Holly-weird, wOooOoooOOo! There’s an anti-christ character subtly called Anita Christ, vampires, werewolves, and Lovecraftian references galore and Wolfe’s gotta do something to somehow save the world from someone! Wolf is Ales Kot doing a hard boiled noir drama by way of the supernatural and it’s a birruva mess to say the least. Noir is a convoluted genre all by itself but when you’ve got an inexperienced and, frankly, not very good writer attempting i...
Essentially an LA-based Hellblazer, with a tortured supernatural fixer trying to keep it together, keep the city from descending *entirely* into Hell, and not get too many people hurt along the way. If you know Hellblazer, you'll know how well that third goal tends to go. Kot is still a little prone to heavy-handed references (Friedkin Blatty? Seriously?), and I'm not entirely convinced by the attempt to make the sausage party cast a feature rather than a bug. But the eerie art helps ensure a ce...
Loved the art but the story was solidly meh.I love stories that just throw you straight into the plot but this IMO is an example of something that needed maybe a touch more exposition... Love the premise, finished it because I was waiting for that 'wow' moment when it all starts to make sense but in the end the execution just wasn't there for me
What a mess this turned out to be. What a great cover (and the other covers from the 4 issue run, they are shown in the back of the book). Too bad the writing was so bad. The premise and the setting and the potential are great. An immortal ex-soldier is kind of a detective for hire in the supernatural world of L.A. (unbeknownst to the 'normals'). He's hired by this super rich super racist that wants to bring about hell on earth (or at least California, though arguably it's already there [ba dum
Ales Kot is a fascinating creator, passionate and articulate in interviews, when discussing the industry or the themes of his writing in comics he is one of the more interesting people to listen to. Kot and Taylor combine forces in a team of five to weave a very compelling, intriguing and enjoyable urban fantasy in Wolf: Blood and Magic, yet in this first volume perhaps falls a little short on execution. It is a vibrant comic, a challenging read, a thoughtful and musing piece of writing and coll...
The only reason I give this comic any stars at all is for the idea and Freddie The Cthulhu type character. The rest of the comic confused and bugged me. The main character is interesting and obviously struggling with his life but the story line is sudden and not explained, there are multiple characters that are never introduced and some are completely pointless. There is whole scenes where it does not explain what happened or what they did but expects you to understand the magic of the authors f...
This is similar to Kot's Zero in a number of ways...1. It's out there2. It's beautiful 3. It gives nothing away4. There's no back story5. It leads you on with little or no reward6. It's bloody confusing even when they tell you it's not!So this is a story about a world where monsters and super natural beings exist in the same world, but only certain people can see them, a bit like that kid in a sixth sense. The main character is immortal and he has another power where he can see connections in re...
Also available on the WondrousBooks blog. Not the worst comic book I have read, but definitely going somewhere down there at the bottom.Wolf is this annoying guy that we all know, who is always trying to tell a story, but is either too drunk or too high, so he can't really remember what happened, so he just keeps blurting stuff out without any sense or correlation.Let me explain it to you: "Oh man, there was this burning guy looking at L.A, and then there were these dead dudes, and the creepy
This has some pretty horrendous reviews, so I don't know if my experience with it was just a right-book, right-time situation, but honestly: I kinda loved this. It's not subtle, and at times, it may be confusing, but I found it enjoyable start to finish, and am looking forward to exploring the world and its relationships more.
I don't even know how to describe this book, and I'm tired, so I'm not gonna try. It's a lot of fun. Fantasy/horror, so Old Ones, vampires, and other creatures show up. Art is great: very stylized in a somewhat simple style that works perfectly with the script.
Didn't like this at all...
Wolf is Ales Kot's most accessible creator-owned title to date. The story isn't entirely straightforward, but his writing is, at least compared to some of his other books. He creates an interesting world and fills it with a number of complex characters who all have room to grow. His protagonist is particularly interesting, and I'm looking forward to having him further explored. Taylor's art is gritty and suits Kot's strange world nicely. There were a number of striking panels where Kot left it u...
I thought any character, upon first meeting, would be exceptional when singing Robert Johnson. I was mistaken.I read 30 pages. Then I read 20 pages more because I enjoyed the premise.However, I simply could not get past the racism, hatred and utter vitriol.I’m all for comics pushing the limits, but I enjoy reading books with a semblance of balance. I simply couldn’t understand any character willing to work for such evil despots and having such evil be inferred as a societal norm.The collaborativ...
The paranormal world building was interesting, but there was a lack of background, so it wasn’t easy to understand what was happening and who were the characters. I also appreciated the art and the colors, they were different from the usual comics which was nice. I’d more mixed feelings regarding the story, it was sometimes difficult to follow and I didn’t care about what happened to the characters.
Hard boiled noir urban fantasy that doesn't have around to explain everything. The thing that sticks out most is how the lettering and text communicate accents and voice, which is sometimes brilliant, and other times has you wondering if the creators have ever actually met someone from Scotland. A bunch of great ideas but it didn't feel complete, perhaps vol 2 will resolve it (or devolve into another Kotian self referential mess?)