Wolf

For generations, Holo was a revered wolf deity that helped the local wheat harvest in exchange for tribute. However, as the villagers become more self-sufficient, they no longer need or even believe in her anymore. During her annual festival, she sneaks into the cart of Kraft, a visiting merchant, hoping he will let her hitch a ride home. If you are still holding out for a Spice and Wolf season three that probably won’t happen, then maybe these anime recommendations can help. For Fans of the Journey Gosick Kujou Kazuya is a transfer student to the elite Saint Marguerite Academy in the Southern European country of Sauville. However, because of his Japanese descent, he is shunned by the other students. One day in the library of the school, he ends up following a long blonde hair to a beautiful doll-like girl call Victorque de Blois who can predict the future, including their own currently entwined one. Together, the pair begin to solve the mysteries that are beg

Rich Tommaso’s “She Wolf” #1 is an artsy take on the trope of the teenage werewolf. While the art is striking, his storytelling approach is sure to be quite polarizing. At the start of the issue, Tommaso dives right into Gabby Catella’s chaotic, crisis-ridden world without any overt exposition; it’s an exciting way to enter the story, but the resulting disorientation doesn’t ease afterwards, as the storytelling is fragmented and disjointed like a dream throughout. The linework is sharp and eye-catching, and Tommaso’s use of partial watercolor-like washes in the background makes the pages look like they are soaked in light. The beach scene has a lovely fuzziness around the edges of bodies, and the borderless panel where two women apply sunscreen is so cheerful and visually clever that it successfully diffuses tension between lycanthropic episodes. Tommaso’s color pairings are stark and thoughtful, but the palette also changes to reinforce the narrative discontinuity. In the end, whet

Re-presenting the classic tale that inspired this month’s Judge Dredd: Deviations! In the full-blooded horror of “Cry of the Werewolf,” Judge Dredd must descend into the Undercity to investigate how a flesh-eating werewolf ended up in Mega-City One and make sure no others make their way to the surface.

*MATURE READERS* After a brutal run-in with black magic leaves him alone and wolfed-out full time, WolfCop has to turn tail back to Woodhaven for a reunion with old friends. But Lou Garou’s hometown is even less welcoming than it was when he left it, and some unfamiliar faces have planned one hell of a surprise party for him, one where home field advantage might just not be enough…

“WOLFCOP: LITTLE BROTHEL OF HORRORS has errant lupine lawman Lou Garou and his conspiracy-crazed sidekick Willie Higgins running into more trouble on the road. When Lou accepts a bit of small-town hospitality from local bordello madame Fey, he’s quickly trapped in a prison of his two favorite vices: Women and booze. But this den of sin harbors a dark secret, one that just might eat WolfCop alive…”