Just announced on Bloody Disgusting and Cullen Bunn’s site, “Wolf Moon” is a new Vertigo Comics series coming from the writer of “The Sixth Gun”, “Sinestro” and “Magneto”, with art by Jeremy Haun. As you might be able to guess from the title, this new series is a “different take on the werewolf legend” (as Bunn said in his own words), and finds a lone man tracking down werewolves to get revenge for the family he lost to them long ago.
What’s unique about this take on the world of werewolves, though, is how they work exactly, with the wolf element actually being a symbiote in a way that jumps from host to host with each moon cycle. As Bunn tells Bloody Disgusting, this allows him to more deeply explore the impact that these people’s actions have on them after they’re left behind in the wake of the wolf’s rampage, and it definitely sounds like a unique, atypical angle, even with werewolf Punisher hot on their tales.
Haun’s an incredible artist as well, and I’m happy to see him bringing his dark, powerful art to a fitting project on a book like this. Hopefully more comes out on Haun’s art, as the interview with BD didn’t really cover that much with him save for the fact he draws a mean werewolf. Jae Lee will be providing covers as well – like the one for #1 above – and that’s an incredible value add for a new series, as that guy is a damn boss.
Issue #1 is coming in December, and Vertigo continues their streak of announcing books after I wrote a semi-obituary for them a couple months back. Here’s hoping this is a great one.
