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Review: “Drumhellar” #7
“Drumhellar” # 7 brings us a relatively subdued and to be honest, a bit dull issue this month. Now with this being the out there, trippy comic we’ve come to know it’s hard to get a good idea of what’s actually happening.
WRITTEN BY: Riley Rossmo & Alex Link
ART BY: Riley Rossmo
PUBLISHER: Image
PRICE: $3.50
RELEASE: March 5, 2014
Reviewed By Torbin Chimners
So maybe I just missed all the cool things that make this issue great, but that’s just a maybe. I can only say that for me this issue was a big letdown. There’s a multitude of wild and crazy things at work in your average issue of Drumhellar, that’s one of its greatest strengths that has brought me back month after month. So when an issue almost completely forgoes the special something that made it stand out in the first place it’s a little concerning and rather boring.
Drum and Harold contemplate how their world and friends work. This genuinely interesting conversation continues as they make their way to the house Drum saw in his vision last issue and then things get dull. At the home they spend all of a page looking around before determining there is nothing of value there and leave.
Drum precedes to get high on shrooms for the rest of the issue which would normally mean an awesome psychedelic landscape to feast our eyes upon but alas, nothing. Instead we are transported to a very unhappy family camping. They berate their son, who isn’t even 13, about drinking, hunting and fucking. The Mother and Father are so overwhelmingly cruel and just plain shit parents that it’s almost comical.
Eventually the demon children who Drum saw in his vision come across the camping family, it’s still very unclear what the deal is with these demon kids. They seem to have some form of mild mind control or something because the parents react very strangely. The Mother just kind of talks with them and the Father reaches for his gun at one point only to have one of the demon kids take it from him. Then he just sits there and watches the demon child give it to his own son with no reaction out of him. I understand they’re both drunk but even so this whole interaction feels incredibly awkward and stilted.
This issue was not garbage, let me make that clear. It was just too mundane in comparison to the fantastical magic of every issue that has come before it. There are good things in here, the opening pages had me engaged with their almost meta contemplations and the last two pages are so goddamn amazing that they could almost make up for the rest of this lackluster issue. I know that personally I’m along for this ride till the very end but it’s getting harder and harder to recommend this to anyone else.
Torbin Chimners AKA Torin Chambers is a rad dude from the nineties who does film stuff or something. Thomas the Tank Engine is his favorite transformer. Find him on Twitter@Vulgar_Rhombus
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‘Curse of the Where Wolf’ Bites Into August Release With Trio of Werewolf Theatrical Screenings [Exclusive Preview]
Larry Chaney‘s hairy misadventures are continuing in the sequel graphic novel Curse of the Where Wolf from creative team Rob Saucedo, Debora Lancianese, and Jack Morelli, and its author is celebrating with a trio of horror’s greatest werewolf films.
The Curse of the Where Wolf hits shelves on August 7 from Encyclopocalypse Publications.
That coincides with the launch of a theatrical screening event in Houston, Texas, featuring a trio of seminal werewolf flicks turning 45 this year: The Howling on August 7, Wolfen on August 14, and An American Werewolf in London on August 21.
Each screening features a “werewolf in film” presentation as well as a book signing from Where Wolf author and River Oaks Theatre artistic director Rob Saucedo.
In the new graphic novel, “Being a werewolf sucks. Reporter Larry Chaney wanted to be a hero. Instead, he became a werewolf. Now, caught between incredible new powers and a desire to eat everything (and everyone) in sight, Larry must find a cure for his curse. Or die trying.”
“With Where Wolf, I wanted to tell a whodunit set in a furry convention, so the story was pretty contained within a very specific setting and genre. With Curse of the Where Wolf, I wanted to celebrate everything I love about the possibility of comic books. Curse of the Where Wolf is a funny book, in every sense of the phrase, but it’s also an earnest look at a person’s struggle to become a better version of themselves, especially when the alternative is to become a literal monster,” Saucedo says of Curse.
The original graphic novel was previously serialized as the first webcomic hosted on Fangoria before being collected by Encyclopocalypse Publications in 2023 and has already been optioned for film, podcast, and television development ahead of launch by producers James Fino (“The Freak Brothers” for Tubi, “Rick and Morty” for Adult Swim) and Charles Horak (First Date for Magnolia Pictures).
Expect Larry to find himself in even weirder situations in the 362-page full color sequel; Saucedo has provided Bloody Disgusting with exclusive art pages from the upcoming graphic novel that showcase lupine humor.
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