Advance Review — ‘Universal Monsters: Blood Of The Wolf Man’ #3 Racks Up The Body Count

If nothing else, this issue put the blood in Universal Monsters: Blood of the Wolf Man.

Just as in this limited series’ first issue, the werewolf went on a killing spree, he’s back now racking up the body count.

That gives artist Leomacs plenty to do in the back half of the book. There’s throat-slashing, throat-gnashing, and plenty of general eviscerations to satisfy even the blood thirstiest among us. And Leomacs does a good job of depicting the gory matters.

Of course, what’s often the scariest is what we hear but don’t see. Leomacs gives us one page near the end where we see a man crouching under a desk, his head in his hands trying to avoid being killed. Around him we read screams, cries, and other sound effects that let us know exactly what’s going on without having to show it. That’s real terror.

Credit writer Joshua Williamson for getting us to this point. Williamson’s scripts to date have been a bit uneven. He’s layered in plenty of mystery — even to the point of making us doubt the Wolf Man’s true identity. Any questions we might have had about who he really is are erased in this chapter, as we see the monster transform and tear through a police station like the Terminator.

Williamson still gives us some questions to resolve in the final issue. Plus there’s the matter of who is going to stop the Wolf Man. At this point, it looks like the only one who can stop him is the werewolf himself.

This series may not live up to the excellence that other Universal Monsters titles have delivered, but it’s enough to keep us going for a little while longer.

Universal Monsters: Blood of the Wolf Man #3 — written by Joshua Williamson, illustrated by Leomacs, colored by Pip Martin, and lettered by DC Hopkins — will be available in comic book stores and on digital platforms on Wednesday from Image Comics.