Alabaster: Wolves #1

by Caitlín R. Kiernan, Steve Lieber, Rachelle Rosenberg

International Horror Guild Award-winning author Caitlín R. Kiernan brings one of her most enduring and popular creations to comics!

For nearly as long as she can remember, Dancy Flammarion has fought monsters, cutting a bloody swath through the demons and dark things of the world, aimed like a weapon by forces beyond her control or questioning.

But now, for the first time, Dancy finds herself alone--and the wolves are closing in.

* A new comics series by Caitlín R. Kiernan with art by Steve Lieber.

* For fans of Vertigo's supernatural horror.

Genres: Comics, Horror, Fantasy, Graphic Novels, Graphic Novels Comics, Dark Fantasy, Comic Book

Unknown Binding

Published April 18, 2012

About the author

Caitlín Rebekah Kiernan is an Irish-born American published paleontologist and author of science fiction and dark fantasy works, including ten novels, series of comic books, and more than two hundred and fifty published short stories, novellas, and vignettes.

Reviews

[Gina · Rating 4 out of 5]

The story maintains a good tension and sets up an interesting path to follow.

[Ottox · Rating 2 out of 5]

Inane ramblings (I don't understand half of it), but somewhat intriguing, too.

[Francesca Giardiello · Rating 4 out of 5]

Come ha perso Dancy il suo angelo custode? Finalmente la risposta a questo grande enigma, un primo capitolo che finalmente inizia a dare giustizia al personaggio di Dancy delineandone meglio il carattere e la storia.

[Christine · Rating 4 out of 5]

Interesting. A bit dark but there is something compelling about the story.

[Adam]

The first issue introduces the albino protagonist, Flammarion. She is waiting for a bus in a crap-sack world infested with werewolves and other monsters, as well as Flammarion's own angel.

Caitlin Kiernan has created a complex protagonist in Flammarion, who is both vulnerable and willing to cheat a werewolf before ripping it's throat out.

While the verbal sparring and life-or-death game of riddles between Flammarion and a werewolf were entertaining, the first issue offers little else. We're thrown into a strange world where crows talk and monsters exists, with no sign of human life other than Flammarion, but we don't as of yet understand why the world is this way -- or if it's all just in Flammarion's head.

[Anthony · Rating 4 out of 5]

Cover art: excellent. Story: compelling and solid. Inside art: mostly good except for the various monsters and those are absolutely awful to the point where I'm actually shocked. Even though the internal art isn't as good as the cover art, it's good enough until a monster shows up and the artwork stars rapidly declining from there (i.e., the more frames / pages the monster(s) appear, the worse / sloppier the art becomes, as if by design). This could be an incredible comic but for this. As it is, it's still good. Worth your time. All of the above is the same with the first three issues so far.

[Crystal · Rating 4 out of 5]

This is my first look at the Alabaster story and at Caitlin R. Kiernan's work. I'm liking it. This first issue of the Wolves story arc managed to give newcomers a pretty easy "in" to the storyline and yet was plenty exciting and not caught up in introducing for all those long-time fans.
Definitely makes me want to pick up Kiernan's older Alabaster work. Dancy Flammarion is quite a character!

[Meran · Rating 5 out of 5]

I had read reviews on this new series, all good.

I agree, I LOVE the series. So much that I bought "Threshold" which introduced Dancy.

[Marguerite]

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[Esteban · Rating 3 out of 5]

Interesting, too bad half of the dialogs are mumbo jumbo ramblings.

I'll read the 2nd one before deciding if its worth reading the series or not.

[Heather M · Rating 3 out of 5]

Not that much happened, but I'm interested.