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Namwolf #1-4
Namwolf: Heart of Darkness
When scrawny Marty Spencer is drafted into the Vietnam War, he finds himself smack dab in the middle of the heart of darkness. But Marty has a secret. A secret even from himself. And Vietnam is a hell of a place to find out you're a werewolf. Collects issues #1-4.
132 pages, Paperback
First published November 1, 2017
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January 7, 2019
The story about a boy who becomes a werewolf in the dark deadly jungle during the Vietnam conflict. It's the mini-series, which is fine by me, so it's pretty quick reading. For me, the art evokes the Archie style (it's the nose of the main protagonist?), looks good, colourful but dar and sometimes, in action scenes, could be bit chaotic. The story is simple, but it is working nicely, but you shouldn't expect some profound twist or message here. It's just werewolf fighting for US military. It's simple as that. It's fun, it looks nice, but it is not competing for comics of the year. I liked it, but I like the Vietnam conflict theme, but honestly, its "I liked it - 3 stars".
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April 30, 2021This was dumb. I regret nothing
December 5, 2020
"Now, unlike you, I knew about our family's unique history. But I reckoned it skipped me, because I had never turned. But the funny thing about getting shot is it really pisses you off. And Werewolf blood boils easy".
May 30, 2018
How insane is that? A werewolf, in the middle of a war holding a gun??? I just wish it wasn't too short and we could see a little bit more of ol' marty.
I think it was supposed to be like that trash movies with no character development made for the only pupose of gore and senseless killing? yeah, it's like that in here and the art style only corroborate to that. It doesn't ask too much and it doesn't take itself too seriously and succeed in what it's proposed to be.
I think it was supposed to be like that trash movies with no character development made for the only pupose of gore and senseless killing? yeah, it's like that in here and the art style only corroborate to that. It doesn't ask too much and it doesn't take itself too seriously and succeed in what it's proposed to be.
June 30, 2019
As if Vietnam wasn't a playground of monsters already.
March 22, 2023
Štvor-zošitová hovadinka, ktorá je super akčná, a fakt parádne nakreslená. A tie pestré farby tomu pomáhajú ešte viac.
February 18, 2020
I bought this mainly for the incredible cover art, but it's not half bad on the side either!
I don't know anything about anyone on this book, or the publisher, so I was positively surprised by the very cool artwork and the amazing colors! The writing was so and so, but overall it was a cool little monster tale.
Since I'm getting more and more invested in the medium of comics I try to expand my knowledge of creators beyond writers and primary artists, so I was please try surprised to find that the colors by Brennan Wagner was what really sold the interior for me! I loved the fact that blood looked like ooze and that the colors weren't super stylistic, but was still what set the tone of the story. The artstyle was a little goofy, and the colors definitely helped bring out the gore and horror of it all.
I wouldn't exactly recommend it, but if you're in the mood for some monster/war fun then this isn't a bad pick.
I don't know anything about anyone on this book, or the publisher, so I was positively surprised by the very cool artwork and the amazing colors! The writing was so and so, but overall it was a cool little monster tale.
Since I'm getting more and more invested in the medium of comics I try to expand my knowledge of creators beyond writers and primary artists, so I was please try surprised to find that the colors by Brennan Wagner was what really sold the interior for me! I loved the fact that blood looked like ooze and that the colors weren't super stylistic, but was still what set the tone of the story. The artstyle was a little goofy, and the colors definitely helped bring out the gore and horror of it all.
I wouldn't exactly recommend it, but if you're in the mood for some monster/war fun then this isn't a bad pick.
January 23, 2026
Reading as much pulp literature and comic books as I do, its not uncommon to come across premises and ideas that are at least a little bit tasteless.
These don't generally offend me unless they're explicitly egregious, but when you add dishonesty to it? Then you piss me off.
I don't know what I was expecting from a comic that (in the writers own words) is a hybrid of 'Teen Wolf' and 'Casualties of War' (and in my own words, by way of Tarantino, derogatory) but I certainly wasn't expecting something that tries to be an occasionally serious 'war is hell' story while having no empathy for the Vietnamese outside of one token 'crying and shooting' scene.
Its tasteless to graft action genre onto a war as traumatic as Vietnam, but its dishonest to then make vague gestures to serious themes and ideas as if this somehow makes up for it.
The art is fun, love ths various covers.
These don't generally offend me unless they're explicitly egregious, but when you add dishonesty to it? Then you piss me off.
I don't know what I was expecting from a comic that (in the writers own words) is a hybrid of 'Teen Wolf' and 'Casualties of War' (and in my own words, by way of Tarantino, derogatory) but I certainly wasn't expecting something that tries to be an occasionally serious 'war is hell' story while having no empathy for the Vietnamese outside of one token 'crying and shooting' scene.
Its tasteless to graft action genre onto a war as traumatic as Vietnam, but its dishonest to then make vague gestures to serious themes and ideas as if this somehow makes up for it.
The art is fun, love ths various covers.
January 5, 2020
I enjoyed it. It's a simple story and the name tells you about everything you need to know about it. Nothing really surprising but it's a well told tale. The art is well done and certainly far better than what I could do, and it fits the story. I rather wish the main guy's nose hadn't looked like Pinocchio, though.
May 8, 2023
2.75/5.00
História muito pela rama, tinha potencial para ir mais longe. Contudo a parte final dá a possibilidade de que os autores possam fazê-lo num futuro indeterminado.
Mas bons desenhos, gráficamente sintéticos e eficazes.
Leitura rápida e "leve", no sentido de não muito complexa, mas com temas pesados e imagens violentas.
História muito pela rama, tinha potencial para ir mais longe. Contudo a parte final dá a possibilidade de que os autores possam fazê-lo num futuro indeterminado.
Mas bons desenhos, gráficamente sintéticos e eficazes.
Leitura rápida e "leve", no sentido de não muito complexa, mas com temas pesados e imagens violentas.
August 15, 2023
This felt middling. War makes monsters of humans. Secret government testing to weaponise werewolves. A bit of dumb humour is all that really carries the writing; I feel like there's nothing else going on.
Art is nice, though feels closer to serviceable than something that stands out on its own.
Art is nice, though feels closer to serviceable than something that stands out on its own.
January 30, 2018
An unabashed love letter to ‘80s werewolf flicks and Vietnam war movies, drenched in gore. Great sequential art and strong, fat paced storytelling. Two claws up.
August 21, 2018
A little weird. For a younger audience I'd say, but then it's brutal war depictions... Not the best, not terrible.
August 20, 2018
That was fun, and the artwork is great
September 18, 2018
An American Werewolf in Vietnam. Perhaps the only way to sum it up. Pure fantastical schlock that is fun from start to end.
December 20, 2019
The Archie style art and the story work together really well to make this just a fun really unique read.
February 23, 2018
A stronger concept than its jokey title suggests, and a much more layered and characterised story than previous series from Rangel; Faerber contributes cartoony, yet wholly apt, artwork, ably aided by excellent colouring. No sign yet of volume two, though I'm looking forward.
(Read as single issues.)
(Read as single issues.)
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