It’s not very often I come across a comic book so bad that I have no inhibition about ripping it apart in a review. This is one of those special books.

The only reason I didn’t attempt to submit my review with 0 or half bullet for the rating is because the art is actually good most of the time. For the first seven pages the art had an erratic style where there were pages that had some panels with a lot of definition and dimension, but other panels that were flat. It starts out with a scene where heroine Sabrina Voght is chasing a werewolf who turns out to be a friend of hers, Layla. During the next scene, in a diner, the art is at its worst where the drawings are not only flat but also show no emotion whatsoever. Outside of the fight scenes in this book, the characters show no emotion other then occasionally smiling.

At the diner Voght and Layla decide to raid a warehouse controlled by a white Russian named Mr. E and a guy called Peribsen who is mentioned in passing. Werewolves, recruited from Layla’s pack, protect the warehouse and she wants to get the pack back. It is during the warehouse scene that the art starts to really pop. If I were to only look at this scene, I’d say the art is on par with Marvel’s--I’d compare it to Clayton Crain or Greg Land. Those first seven pages really suck, though.

Voght and Layla get into a fight with the warehouse werewolves and lose due to being outnumbered. They’re saved when a man suddenly comes flying in on a motorcycle and kills Mr. E and then shoots a couple werewolves allowing Layla a chance to grab a gun and coral her pack. The guy on the motorcycle is Mr. Morrison who wasn’t there to save them. He was there to take back what was his. According to Layla, “Peribsen (Mr. E’s boss) bought Morrison Company on the stock market or something. I don’t get all that financial stuff.”

Of course Layla doesn’t understand, because she’s a female character in a book written by a chauvinist. That’s what makes me feel OK with tearing this comic book apart in a public forum. It’s sexist. I picked this out because of the description of it, but the cover looks like the kind of comic you can only find at an adult bookstore. The female characters are incapable of defeating any men in this story. Layla loses her pack of werewolves to a man, during their raid on the warehouse they’re caught because they’re talking and Mr. E hears them, and then it’s a man who saves them at the end. Voght has her nipples blasting through her shirts during the whole story and Layla is either naked or wearing a bra and mini-skirt. I’m not opposed to comics that have scantly clad women, but the women need to at least be competent.

I would say that aspiring writers should pick up this book to give them encouragement. You'll be able to look at it and say , “If this can get published then I’m sure I can.” However, I pulled up the publisher website and this is very clearly self-published. Apparently, the only person willing to publish the writing of Hasbrouck is Hasbrouck and a couple of his friends.

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