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Where Wolf
Something scary stalks the streets of Texas, leaving a trail of corpses in its wake. The only person standing in its way is Larry Chaney, a slacker reporter who can't hold a job, can't keep a girlfriend and doesn't even know the capital of Australia. Woof! Larry must go undercover at a local furry convention (it's a long story, trust us) if he has any hope of stopping the beast dead set on turning the lone star state into an all-you-can-eat buffet.
294 pages, Paperback
Published July 7, 2023
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March 7, 2023
This story ably treads the line between horror, mystery, and comedy. Saucedo’s sardonic take on medium-town Texas provides the backdrop, and Lancianese’s cartoony but detailed art supplies the atmosphere. At first our hero is a little too much of a sad sack to fully root for and his assistant is a little too prickly to fully love, but they develop nicely over these 12 chapters while trying to track down the identity of a murderous werewolf terrorizing College Station.
May 12, 2023
What the professionals say: “A hair raising lycanthropic whodunnit that has razor sharp wit and biting satire.”
Me: “LOL cum gutters.”
Me: “LOL cum gutters.”
May 13, 2023
I think what struck me most about Rob's work on WHERE WOLF, other than an always inviting dose of giddy and gonzo throat-crunching, is how much care you'll find on each page. Characters feel like they exist beyond the plot. Their ambitions and burdens linger. They're human...for now.
And if you've spent even one week in the beautiful hellhole that is College Station, WHERE WOLF may end up having you consider a trip back into town. To enjoy chain restaurant slop? To catch a buzz? To rip it apart? Why don't 'cha find out?
And if you've spent even one week in the beautiful hellhole that is College Station, WHERE WOLF may end up having you consider a trip back into town. To enjoy chain restaurant slop? To catch a buzz? To rip it apart? Why don't 'cha find out?
August 5, 2023
This lycanthropic-kinky-whodunnit hybrid is one of my favorite reads of the year.
Where Wolf is sure to become a comfort classic for anyone who sinks their teeth in this story. As a fellow Texan, I loved all of Rob’s references, especially the shoutout to the legend Marvin Zindler’s iconic news segment Slime in the Ice Machine. You’d be hard-pressed not to smile at his quick prose and humor. The players in this mystery are all lovable in their own way but don’t get too cozy because someone in College Station is waiting to rip you to shreds.
Where Wolf is sure to become a comfort classic for anyone who sinks their teeth in this story. As a fellow Texan, I loved all of Rob’s references, especially the shoutout to the legend Marvin Zindler’s iconic news segment Slime in the Ice Machine. You’d be hard-pressed not to smile at his quick prose and humor. The players in this mystery are all lovable in their own way but don’t get too cozy because someone in College Station is waiting to rip you to shreds.
September 5, 2023
I'm a big fan of snarky horror films, where a mystery is unraveled. Saucedo and his partners delivered in spades. This was a wonderful romp.
July 18, 2023
I had the pleasure to meet Rob after a showing of Silver Bullet at Alamo Drafthouse. After the show, I marched straight to his table to buy the book.
I recommend this for any fan of the werewolf genre. The characters are realistic, good kills, and yes, the story is around a FURRY CONVENTION!! It's fun and I couldn't put it down. I need the sequel ASAP!!
I recommend this for any fan of the werewolf genre. The characters are realistic, good kills, and yes, the story is around a FURRY CONVENTION!! It's fun and I couldn't put it down. I need the sequel ASAP!!
May 6, 2023
Really enjoyed this graphic novel. I read the web version on Fangoria, loved it! A perfect blend of comedy & Horror. The artwork is very unique and makes you want many many volumes! Definitely check this out, specially if you’re a werewolf fan!
March 6, 2023
Love this hilarious, spooky, weird romp.
April 1, 2023
Funny, sweet, scary, and weird. I love Gwen and Sophia so dang much. I am eagerly awaiting the sequel!
October 21, 2023
i loved this. really really loved it.
i grew up in houston, lived in college station for 7 years, and now live to dallas. sometimes it strikes me how underutilized urban texas is as a setting. any setting i didn’t recognize, i googled. Gwen’s duplex is right down the street from where i used to live. every campus building, i can remember something that happened to me in front of it. and none of this is groundbreaking, except for that central texas just doesn’t get this sort of treatment, pretty much ever. even the people who live in college station usually treat it like it’s just a bland nothing-flavor of a place. i love to see it being loved like it is here.
i would have enjoyed this for the location alone, but the story and art is genuinely good. it’s wordy for a graphic novel, but the word count is earned. it feels like Saucedo had pages and pages of prose that got whittled down to just dialogue (this is a compliment). i feel like you can tell Saucedo is a movie guy from the pacing. and as for the character archetypes… after living in college station, i can name at least five Gwens, Larrys, and Sophias from my own life.
and just buy the printed book… it’s too small on kindle.
i grew up in houston, lived in college station for 7 years, and now live to dallas. sometimes it strikes me how underutilized urban texas is as a setting. any setting i didn’t recognize, i googled. Gwen’s duplex is right down the street from where i used to live. every campus building, i can remember something that happened to me in front of it. and none of this is groundbreaking, except for that central texas just doesn’t get this sort of treatment, pretty much ever. even the people who live in college station usually treat it like it’s just a bland nothing-flavor of a place. i love to see it being loved like it is here.
i would have enjoyed this for the location alone, but the story and art is genuinely good. it’s wordy for a graphic novel, but the word count is earned. it feels like Saucedo had pages and pages of prose that got whittled down to just dialogue (this is a compliment). i feel like you can tell Saucedo is a movie guy from the pacing. and as for the character archetypes… after living in college station, i can name at least five Gwens, Larrys, and Sophias from my own life.
and just buy the printed book… it’s too small on kindle.
August 10, 2023
Rob Saucedo has been hawking his new graphic novel, Where Wolf, at screenings of werewolf films at the Alamo Drafthouse, and it's a great marketing tactic, to be sure. Especially when your book has a delightful hook like "Journalist goes undercover at a furry convention in Texas to catch a werewolf." I thought it sounded fun enough to take a thirty-dollar chance on a special variant cover edition after watching The Howling, especially when the cover specifically included an endorsement from Joe Dante! And the back included endorsements from Stephen Graham Jones and Paul Tremblay! And the average Goodreads rating was a whopping 4.92!!
Look, I'm a generous reviewer, and I find it hard to believe that any of those people loved this book THAT MUCH. This feels like one of those situations where a movie has a Rotten Tomatoes rating of 92% but a Metacritic score of 52. Is this book bad? Certainly not. It's perfectly enjoyable and competently done. But it's overall so mediocre and underwhelming compared to what I thought I was going to get from this book that I can't pretend you should go out of your way to check out this random graphic novel you've never heard of.
Larry Chaney (GET IT GET IT) is a shitty boyfriend and a slacker reporter in College Station who gets a chance to prove himself to his put-upon girlfriend, Gwen, when he looks into some mysterious deaths that just happen to coincide with a furry convention. He enlists the help of a witness, Sophia, who becomes his girl Friday, as it were, and they try to suss out who the werewolf might be.
Saucedo's horror-comedy is far more comedy than horror, and how much you enjoy the book will depend on your tolerance for main characters like Larry, who is not The Worst, exactly, but also not exactly the most endearing of doofs. Thankfully, Sophia's clearly the best character in the book, and her outrageousness gives the book some fun attitude, and Saucedo gives Gwen a bit more agency and dimension than is often afforded the girlfriend characters of characters like Larry. Saucedo gives them all some solid backstory that deepens their characters and relationships. From a horror perspective, Saucedo does actually have a compelling take on werewolves, but unfortunately, it's all dropped in one chapter near the end of the book with little time to explore (but I guess that's what the sequel is for).
While there's good stuff in here, it's a frustrating read because so little really happens for most of it. Most of it is spent trying to convince people there's a werewolf, and there's very little werewolf action, and there is exactly one (1) scene of a werewolf being mistaken for a furry! That's it! Isn't that the whole joke of this premise?? (Another point in this book's favor, by the way, is that it treats furries respectfully rather than making them the butt of the joke for the whole book.) So it's mostly just Larry and Sophia running around and occasionally a werewolf appears. It's...cute and fun, I suppose?
I would probably rate this book higher if I liked Debora Lancianese's art at all, but I don't. I could tell when I flipped through that it was not appealing to me, this very simple sketch-y black-and-white that feels like the rough drafts of panels. Like literally they remind me of the sketches I see of panels before they're properly drawn and inked and colored. Again, I wouldn't say it's bad, per se, just...baseline competent, with the occasional striking composition.
Anyway, the punny title makes no sense but it's cute, and that's basically indicative of the book itself. It's cute. It exists. It's not going to set the world on fire, but I sure wish it delivered a hell of a lot more from its premise.
Look, I'm a generous reviewer, and I find it hard to believe that any of those people loved this book THAT MUCH. This feels like one of those situations where a movie has a Rotten Tomatoes rating of 92% but a Metacritic score of 52. Is this book bad? Certainly not. It's perfectly enjoyable and competently done. But it's overall so mediocre and underwhelming compared to what I thought I was going to get from this book that I can't pretend you should go out of your way to check out this random graphic novel you've never heard of.
Larry Chaney (GET IT GET IT) is a shitty boyfriend and a slacker reporter in College Station who gets a chance to prove himself to his put-upon girlfriend, Gwen, when he looks into some mysterious deaths that just happen to coincide with a furry convention. He enlists the help of a witness, Sophia, who becomes his girl Friday, as it were, and they try to suss out who the werewolf might be.
Saucedo's horror-comedy is far more comedy than horror, and how much you enjoy the book will depend on your tolerance for main characters like Larry, who is not The Worst, exactly, but also not exactly the most endearing of doofs. Thankfully, Sophia's clearly the best character in the book, and her outrageousness gives the book some fun attitude, and Saucedo gives Gwen a bit more agency and dimension than is often afforded the girlfriend characters of characters like Larry. Saucedo gives them all some solid backstory that deepens their characters and relationships. From a horror perspective, Saucedo does actually have a compelling take on werewolves, but unfortunately, it's all dropped in one chapter near the end of the book with little time to explore (but I guess that's what the sequel is for).
While there's good stuff in here, it's a frustrating read because so little really happens for most of it. Most of it is spent trying to convince people there's a werewolf, and there's very little werewolf action, and there is exactly one (1) scene of a werewolf being mistaken for a furry! That's it! Isn't that the whole joke of this premise?? (Another point in this book's favor, by the way, is that it treats furries respectfully rather than making them the butt of the joke for the whole book.) So it's mostly just Larry and Sophia running around and occasionally a werewolf appears. It's...cute and fun, I suppose?
I would probably rate this book higher if I liked Debora Lancianese's art at all, but I don't. I could tell when I flipped through that it was not appealing to me, this very simple sketch-y black-and-white that feels like the rough drafts of panels. Like literally they remind me of the sketches I see of panels before they're properly drawn and inked and colored. Again, I wouldn't say it's bad, per se, just...baseline competent, with the occasional striking composition.
Anyway, the punny title makes no sense but it's cute, and that's basically indicative of the book itself. It's cute. It exists. It's not going to set the world on fire, but I sure wish it delivered a hell of a lot more from its premise.
October 16, 2023
It was a bit of a slow start but it really lays out the characters. I highly recommend this graphic novel to anyone who likes a good thriller and werewolf lore. The flow of the story weaves well and I did noticed it was a bit slow in the beginning as a graphic novel. It was a lot of talking panels and not enough action but once you hit the mid point, it all fall into place like a Edgar Wright film.
I met the author and he is an avid film buff. This explains how the layout plays as horror/thriller film.
The artwork is black and white with bold lines. The scenes of College Station are recognizable and many jokes about Aggie culture in Texas A & M University (a.k.a. Aggieland)
It is worth reading during October or a good thrill story.
Key Themes: Werewolf, Monsters, Graphic Novels, Urban Legends, Furries, College Station, College/University Life, Conventions
I met the author and he is an avid film buff. This explains how the layout plays as horror/thriller film.
The artwork is black and white with bold lines. The scenes of College Station are recognizable and many jokes about Aggie culture in Texas A & M University (a.k.a. Aggieland)
It is worth reading during October or a good thrill story.
Key Themes: Werewolf, Monsters, Graphic Novels, Urban Legends, Furries, College Station, College/University Life, Conventions
June 5, 2023
A great indie comic about a struggling journalist who upends his life to go undercover at a furry convention to chase a story about a Werewolf targeting the community.
The comic hooks you in with this twisted high concept pitch, then keeps you reading by giving you a collection of carefully crafted characters to follow.
There’s blood, guts, heart, friendship, messy human growth, all rendered in black and white art that feels both understated yet also completely locked in to the dueling gravity and levity of the story.
Definitely worth a read for fans of horror, horror comedy, and just good old fashioned werewolf yarns.
The comic hooks you in with this twisted high concept pitch, then keeps you reading by giving you a collection of carefully crafted characters to follow.
There’s blood, guts, heart, friendship, messy human growth, all rendered in black and white art that feels both understated yet also completely locked in to the dueling gravity and levity of the story.
Definitely worth a read for fans of horror, horror comedy, and just good old fashioned werewolf yarns.
September 18, 2023
I LOVE werewolves. Write a book about werewolves, or a movie, I'm going to seek it out. And there was some fantastic werewolf action in this graphic novel. Not nearly as much as I would have liked, but still enough to be happy about.
However, this was more comedy than horror, which is fine, except I only found a few things in it that really made me laugh. The characters were mostly annoying, which I think was the purpose, but they still got to be quite unlikable. My favorite character was the morgue keeper and he wasn't in this book nearly enough!
My favorite chapter of the book, by far, was the backstory of the werewolf. That was a joy to read!
However, this was more comedy than horror, which is fine, except I only found a few things in it that really made me laugh. The characters were mostly annoying, which I think was the purpose, but they still got to be quite unlikable. My favorite character was the morgue keeper and he wasn't in this book nearly enough!
My favorite chapter of the book, by far, was the backstory of the werewolf. That was a joy to read!
April 6, 2023
It is not often that I pick up a book (or comic/graphic novel) and finish it within a few days, but Where Wolf is one of those rarities for me. The characters are all well fleshed out (sometimes ...literally! Woops!) and there are no dumb tropes here. If you're at all a fan of werewolves or the horror genre - this is a love letter to both and one that I especially (as a 30 something year old in TX) enjoyed. Super fun, and has a really unique spin on the genre. Definitely grab yourself a copy once this hits wider release!
March 7, 2023
Quiet-ish College Station, Texas serves as the perfect backdrop for this werewolf meets journalistic adventure! I spent half of the time reading this laughing out loud while journeying through the perils of werewolves loose amongst the town's furry community while a quirky reporter tries to save the day. I can't wait for the sequel!
My favorite characters are hands down Gwen and Sophia! I now walk around channeling their badassery and energy.
My favorite characters are hands down Gwen and Sophia! I now walk around channeling their badassery and energy.
June 24, 2024
People are dying, and the police have decided it was a wolf. Larry Chaney, wanna-be investigative reporter thinks it is a serial killer and looks into it hoping he can break out of doing fluff pieces into something more serious.
The story is well written, and it’s a fun little read. I’ve got one gripe with the illustrator, as the two black characters had some rather stereotypical features, if not for that, I might have rated this 4 stars.
The story is well written, and it’s a fun little read. I’ve got one gripe with the illustrator, as the two black characters had some rather stereotypical features, if not for that, I might have rated this 4 stars.
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September 20, 2024DNFed about halfway through. I really wanted to love this but there's just not enough going on. The characters are unlikable and unrealistic. It reads like a mystery as opposed to a horror which is not necessarily a problem, I just don't like mysteries. Also the author seems to be into animals in a way that's very weird and uncomfortable.
March 6, 2023
Robert’s sharp as heck writing, coupled with wicked artwork is a match made in lycanthropic heaven. It’s got everything; heavy laughs, gore, mystery AND furries. Do yourself a favor… Stop reading this review now and start reading Where Wolf today. It rules.
December 13, 2023
I met the author at a showing of American werewolf in London in my city and he was a really cool guy. I read the book and I really liked it, I read it in one sitting. It’s a really good book and easily one of my favorite books. I honestly can’t wait for the sequel.
January 9, 2024
Delicious blend of lycanthropy lore and wolfish wit.
Clever who-done- it blending horror, excellent artwork, solid storytelling, and wit makes this an epic graphic novel. Definitely will read the whole series.
Clever who-done- it blending horror, excellent artwork, solid storytelling, and wit makes this an epic graphic novel. Definitely will read the whole series.
March 6, 2023
Too funny, too scary, too long of a wait for the sequel
March 7, 2023
Tons of fun! A unique and entertaining werewolf story. Good stuff!
March 14, 2023
Hip, funny, emotional and scary as heck! Where Wolf is a great time.
September 24, 2023
3.75
Amusing!!!
Amusing!!!
December 16, 2023
Full of humor, heart, and gore. A great time for fans of horror comedy.
January 7, 2024
I picked up a copy of one of his book signings. It was a very fun read. A great start for this author. Looking forward to much more from him in the future.
February 3, 2025
Fun read!
January 30, 2024
Horror comedies can be difficult to pull off by virtue of their being composed of two ideologically different genres: one meant to jar the reader out of a sense of safety and comfort, the other meant to induce laughter and positive feelings. The end result tends to be a comedy with horror trappings; rare is the project that successfully walks the tightrope. Where Wolf is one such project. Rob Saucedo adeptly balances scares and chuckles in the strangely heartwarming (yet still unsettling) tale of a werewolf terrorizing a Texas furry convention. Those who've lived (or spent any time in) College Station will doubly appreciate how Saucedo simultaneously makes this an ode to a unique part of Texas culture. Recommended for horror fans and fans of graphic novels writ large alike.
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