Teen Wolf: Bite Me #1 (of 3)
Reviewed by David O' Leary
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Story by: David Tischman
Art by: Stephen Mooney
Colours by: Adam Chong
Letters by: Ed Dukeshire
Cover by: Stephen Mooney
Publisher: Top Cow/Image Comics/MTV Comics
Cover Price: $3.99
Book Summery:
Scott McCall's life is a living nightmare. Sure, he's co-captain of the Beacon Hills High Lacrosse Team and he's got a hot new girlfriend named Allison who adores him - but Scott was bitten by a werewolf. And every time he gets excited, the claws come out. And the hair. And the fangs. Which might be okay, except Allison's father leads a specially trained group of Hunters who want him dead. Scott's managed to keep his secret safe, but what happens when he can't reverse the process? In this original comic book story based on MTV's new hit series, Scott's stuck - and nothing can change him back. Will he stay a Werewolf forever? The horror begins here.
Reviewer's Comments:
Curiosity more than anything brought me to this book. I had seen the ads for the TV show and saw that this name only rehash from the eighties was squarely aimed at the much mocked Twilight crowd. I also had my concerns that the book was only going to be a commercial tie in with little value to the casual comic reader. But rather than pass judgement from afar I decided to just read the thing myself and see after that.
I try and see the positives in peoples work when I read. And although there are some good points of the issue, the down points are some of the most glaring I have seen in a very long time. Hands down the worst comic I have ever read in terms of speaking down to the readers intelligence was Fallen Sun: The Sentry from Marvel following the death of The Sentry after Secret Invasion. I have not yet come across a book since that had such glaring errors in the story, until now.
In one of the opening scenes our main protagonist Scott is taking part in a game of Lacrosse. He is butting heads with another star of the team who has ambitions to be the one and only playmaker on the team. Scott's bit on the side and the school hottie are looking on from the stands in the middle of a crowd talking about the hotties upcoming birthday next week. Scott lines up a haymaker of a shot but gets tackled from behind and as the ball gets loose and heads for his lady, as the script lamely says ';150 super fast miles an hour'. Scott races ahead of the ball, presumably at a faster speed of 150 miles per hour but it is grabbed out of the air by a guy called Derek Hale. Now I have a couple of problems with that scenario. Firstly, no one reacts to the fact that Scott just ran across a field in front of a crowd at 150 plus miles an hour to catch the ball. Secondly just as he gets there and Derek Hale catches the ball, the crowd have disappeared. As in there is not a sinner in the stand. It appears that they left the stand quicker than the time it took Scott to get there. I despise things like this that remove me from the story as obviously it makes an lower than average story a pretty poor story. I won't even go into what I thought of the dialogue.
If this book has one saving grace it is the art. Mooney's work on Angel lends him the ability to make the book look quite cool in the scenes that take place in the forest with the traps. Though, the lack of a crows in the above mentioned scene comes under his heading as artist. Unfortunately Ed Dukeshire on colours makes the Lacrosse game confusing by giving both sets of teams very similar jerseys in the game. This would appear to have been a simple thing to catch and recitfy but it only adds to the mess that that scene represented.
I said earlier that there was some good points in the issue and the final page is one. It is almost enough to spike my interest in what comes next but unfortunately I would be more interested in the next issue just to see what else went wrong in the making of it. Essentially I feel that the casual reader would feel hard done by paying for this book
Rating the Issue
| Story Story: Overall 3 Concept - 3 out of 10 Plot - 3 out of 10 Dialogue - 3 out of 10 |
Art Art: Overall 5.66 Style - 7 out of 10 Storytelling - 7 out of 10 Colour/Tones - 3 out of 10 |
Importance Importance: Overall 4.66 To the Title - 5 out of 10 To the Company - 5 out of 10 To the Medium - 2 out of 10 |
Reviewer Bio
Name: David O' Leary
Email: idwfan@yahoo.co.uk
Bio: David has been with CR since June 2008 and started out as a reviewer and has expanded to do a couple of columns for the site also; starting with 28 Words Later with artist Declan Shalvey and later 5 Minutes With... where he talks with the industries best and brightest from Kubert to Moore.
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