I'm getting through some of my e-comic backlog during my lunch hour this week, and today it was a four-issue creator-owned series from Boom! Studios. "Curse" was written by Michael Moreci and Tim Daniel, with art by Riley Rossmo and Colin Lorimer. It began monthly publication in January, 2014; I got the four individual issues as part of a Boom! Humble Bundle.
The series begins showing a monster in man form chained up in a basement. That and the dark, realistic art style tells us that we're beginning a horror story, but we aren't sure what kind. The scene shifts to the difficulties ex-football hero Laney is having paying for his sick child's medical care, then to a mysterious creature that has been killing people in the woods, mangling them horrifically.
As the story goes on it becomes clear that the monster is a werewolf--which also explains the series title--and the two story lines come together in the end. I saw the ending coming a little too soon, but it was still an effective short horror story. It would be right at home in Dark Horse's horror line (or even at IDW), where I probably would have been aware of it sooner. I'm happy to see that Boom! has the range to publish a story like this.
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I bought this series initially for the Riley Rossmo art. I thought it was a decent read if a little by the numbers