Read WOLF'S HEAD issue 10 of the comic book series for free on the Internet Archive
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“Desperate to protect a vulnerable young AI, Lauren Greene flees an old enemy through Detroit’s shadows with only her dog SankÅ for support. Just as a mysterious ally, Super Bob Sanchez, offers hope for escape, her best friend is taken hostage in a brutal life-or-death exchange, leaving Lauren to choose between sacrifice and survival as time runs out.”Key Links
Here are all of the key links:- Internet Archive link for WOLF’S HEAD Issue 10: https://archive.org/details/wolfs-head-010-by-von-allan
- WOLF’S HEAD Volume 5 (collecting Issues 9 and 10 of the series): https://wolfs-head.vonallan.com/p/wolfs-head-volume-5.html
- Shop Page: https://wolfs-head.vonallan.com/p/shop.html
- Wolf’s Head Official Site: https://wolfs-head.vonallan.com/
SPECIAL STORY
This is a very special story! Why? Well, ten issues in, we see Lauren coming face to face with the antagonist that she’s been dealing with for the past number of issues. And this forces her to make a critical decision, one that will play out over the next few issues.One of my goals since the series started was to deal with racism in a different way than is usually depicted in comics as well as other media. What do I mean? Well, since Frank McRossiter’s introduction way back in issue 1, I wanted him to be racist without directly saying so. In other words, it’s his deeds that make him a racist, not just his words. At the same time, I wanted it to be relatively subtle; Frank doesn’t wear a Klan outfit. He also doesn’t attend racist rallies, write racist screeds, or any of that. But he is racist and that’s influenced how he’s treated Lauren right from the get-go. In some ways he’s the most heinous antagonist that the series has seen so far and his racism played a key role in that. He’s simply unable to see Lauren as the human being she is. And this is despite the fact that she saved his life back in issue 6.
I’ll leave it to you to judge how I did. I will say that coming up the twists and turns in this issue was a great deal of fun! And I think it pays off a number of plots and character points that I had established earlier. As always, that’s part of the fun of creating comics. Establishing little threads and then paying them off later on. I think (hope!) that it rewards careful reading and works on a lot of different levels.