When Gary Hampton is mauled and left for dead, his life takes a drastic turn. Gary is cursed - when the moon is full he transforms into a beast of the night - a werewolf. When his life is torn apart, Gary Hampton must rebuild, but can he do so from behind bars?
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This review is from: The Astounding Wolf-Man Volume 3 (Paperback)
Excellent story with good graphics and good character development. It reads like a novel and I'm truly enjoying the comic.
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Volume 3 is the weakest but still awesome!,
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This review is from: The Astounding Wolf-Man Volume 3 (Paperback)
As others have said this volume is the weakest of the series. Yet, with a series this good that's not saying much. Pretty much anything written by Kirkman is worth owning, and over half of his is "must own" for me. Bottom line: if you like the first two, buy this one.
Also, the Astounding Wolf-Man was not cancelled like some T.V. series, Kirkman announced it's conclusion in issue 25 (nothing to do with sales). I personally wish more comics series would have an ending than going on for years with nothing to say.
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hey, lycanthrope - don't drop the soap,
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Gary Hampton has tried to make lemonade out of lemons, the CEO become loup garou become costumed superhero. But there's a reason his condition is labeled the Curse of the Werewolf - it'll f--- you up. Gary's "curse" has cost him his riches and his marriage and his relationship with his teenaged daughter Chloe. When his wife was murdered, Gary took the fall and was forced to go on the lam. Once a month, on the first night of the full moon, he still loses full control of his lycanthropy and becomes this ravening beast. And for Gary Hampton, it's about to get worse.
THE ASTOUNDING WOLF-MAN Vol. 3 collects issues #13-18, and there's only one TPB collection left before this series calls it a day (it ends later in 2010 with issue #25). In the meantime, Robert Kirkman and Jason Howard come up with another slew of fairly entertaining stories, even if there's a sense of things being rushed and glossed over. How long can the Astounding Wolf-Man stay at large? Not for that long, as it turns out. In quick order we see the Wolf-Man caught, tried for murder, and sentenced to the Stronghold Penitentiary, where he ends up keeping company with several revenge-minded villains in his scanty rogues' gallery and where a collar inhibitor renders him unable to shift to werewolf form. And an incarcerated Gary Hampton, in his human form, ain't no Daredevil. Robert Kirkman does provide us with resolutions of sorts to several dangling sub-plots. Somewhere in this, the Wolf-Man gets his showdown with his erstwhile mentor and betrayer, the vampire Zechariah. And somewhere in this, Gary and his very estranged daughter Chloe - who's been wanting to kill him (she believes that he killed her mom) - finally have it out. We also get introduced to the menace that is... the Face. But don't let the dramatic three dots fool you. I found it hard to buy the Face as a credible criminal mastermind, and mostly because of his ridiculous appearance. Maybe you'll think the same. In issue # 15, we're reminded that the Wolf-Man resides in Invincible's universe. Not only does the scar-faced head of the super-secret Global Defense Agency, Cecil Stedman, pop up, but the Stronghold Penitentiary soon feels the effects of the invasion by Invincible's evil other-dimensional doppelgangers (see INVINCIBLE circa #60) and that plot crossover actually becomes pretty relevant to the Wolf-Man's storyline. Robert Kirkman was never one to chronicle stand-alone stories, and so he throws in past characters (like the superhero squad, the Actioneers, now undead and eeeevil) and dredges up past story arcs. If you haven't read the issues before this trade, then confusion might quickly set in. Kirkman's shock twists aren't as strong this time around. Jason Howard's art is still raw and borderline cartoony but exploding with energy. If you've stayed caught up with the Astounding Wolf-Man's story so far, then there's no reason to stop now, even if, to me, Volume 3 isn't as engrossing as the stuff that's gone on before. For one thing, I don't think that Gary's stint in prison is explored enough. Then, there's how Gary and Chloe resolved their issues, and that came off as maybe too pat. And, again, the Face makes for an unintimidating Big Bad. The formidable Elder is more like it, if he really were a werewolf villain, but that's only by going on the word of Gary's bloodsucking, backstabbing arch-nemesis. Still, color me curious, and I'm still eager to keep on reading the series even as it careens towards its cancellation.
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