Product DescriptionBen Templesmith (30 Days of Night, Singularity 7, Fell) creates an all-eerie and humorous new series. Things are awakening in the city. Things that have a nasty habit of leaving mutilated bodies in their wake and it all reeks of demons and dark gods up to no good. Owing a favor to his lazy ghost cop buddy Trotsky, Wormwood, the gentleman corpse and his oddball entourage are brought in to investigate the case (or at least hopefully not stuff it up too much.)
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Rating: - Macabre humor with an attitude
That's Wormwood on the cover - see him? Not that animated corpse in the front, look into his eyes, or at least sockets. There, that maggot, that's Wormwood, animating that well-dressed corpse.
Nattily attired in his zombie suit, Wormwood inhabits the demimonde of supernatural beings and "adult" entertainments. When people start exploding in his favorite venue for exotic dance, he takes it on himself to hunt down the source of this annoying evil. Aided by an attitudinous guard-babe any ... Read More
Rating: - A step backwards in human/Leprechaun relations
Bizarre brilliance.
Templesmith's scripting is as morbidly humorous as his art, and the result is a wacky, "New Weird" romp through the modern occult underworld.
Although there's little time for explanation or backstory, Templesmith actually got me to care about his collection of misfit adventurers by the end of the first page. Or, at the very least, I was ready to cheer them on as they thumped on the demon intruders.
Not sure how to accurately praise the Leprechaun ... Read More
Rating: - wormwood
A fabulous idea coupled with fantastic original artistic style make for a must read comic.
Rating: - Hellboy + Constantine = Wormwood
Hot on the supernatural heels of Constantine and Hellboy comes another demon fighter/monster killer of ambiguous character named Wormwood. He's a welcome addition to the horror comic-book hero pantheon due to his unflappable personality and dark humor.
Like Hellboy, Wormword isn't, shall we say, quite human. He's a sentient wormlike creature who uses corpses for mobility and to blend in with humanity (magic helps a bit with his camouflage). As with Constantine, he's familiar with the nasty underbelly ... Read More
Rating: - SQUISHY, DARK FUN!
Wormwood: Gentleman Corpse is the product of 30 Days of Night artist, Ben Templesmith, who not only provides the art, but wrote the story as well. This 152 page trade paperback collects the four issue mini-series along with the Wormwood: The Taster which served as a prelude to the mini-series. If I could pick just one word to describe Wormwood it would be...squishy...that tends to sum up both the look and feel of the book. Wormwood is a sentient worm that lives inside the eye-socket of a rather dapper English gentleman ... Read More
- Macabre humor with an attitude
- A step backwards in human/Leprechaun relations
