The saga of Jack Russell--poor young guy unfortunate enough to get bitten by a werewolf and to subsequently become one himself, sending him off on a series of adventures against all sorts of monsters, vigilantes and mutants--continues in this second volume of Werewolf by Night.
Doug Moench continued on as writer from volume one--and, unfortunately, so did the artwork team of Don Perlin and Vince Colletta. Perlin's pencils are fine enough--he goes from stiff caricature to dynamic poses in the space of a couple of panels--but Colletta's inks are offensively bad. It often looks like he erased all of the pencil work and just redrew it himself.
That doesn't make all of these stories bad, though. In fact, a lot of them are pretty good--especially when Werewolf by Night crosses over with Marvel's other veteran horror comic, Tomb of Dracula. (See cover above.)
4 comments:
The artwork by Perlin and Colletta worked well for this subject matter.
I agree with your assessment of Perlin, but Colletta too often sucked the detail out of any panel he inked--the art would have been better served with Giacoia or Heck inking.
I can't, for the life of me, make sense of what's happening on this cover. I don't mean my comment as critique of the artist though. I just can't make it out.
The Werewolf is being attacked by two vampires, one of whom is Dracula. Drac's head placement is a bit off--looks like it's attached to the Werewolf's left shoulder.
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