The two writers of the re-imagined Werewolf by Night series joined us to talk about the new book, Red Wolf, slam-bam monster brawls, and how to walk with respect when reinventing a classic property for a new generation of readers. Check out their 4-issue limited series starting October 21st.

Len Wein picks up the story where we left off: a wounded Jack aims to free sister Lissa from Joshua Kane's trap, but his brother Luther has even more sinister, noir-ish plans for The Beast: take a life or lose your sister! What's a werewolf to do?

Comics fan & filmmaker Brad Michael Elmore (Bit, The Wolfman's Hammer) jumped at the chance to be on the show to talk about Marvel's Bronze Age occultism (or 'Saturday morning Satanism,' as he called it), in particular, Issue #4 of Werewolf by Night:
The Beast saved Lissa from the Mad Monk, but it's out of the frying pan & into the fire as a crazed & bored big game hunter sets his sights on a new thrill...werewolf hunting!...and he's kidnapped Jack's sister to motivate our hero to play along.

Father Joquez translates The Darkhold and, to quote every YouTuber ever, it...didn't go well. A medieval Satan-worshiping monk reveals the origins of the Darkhold, the Book of Sins, and his strange connection to Jack's family that could doom the entire world!

Jack Russell (and The Beast) becomes the prey of a mysterious figure who wants to capitalize on his lycanthropy for his own personal gains.

When last we saw the Werewolf, he had been turned to stone by a mutant gorgon on Blackgar's island of horrors. The story continues here in the debut of his own title. W: Gerry Conway A: Mike Ploog
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Also mentioned: Night Gallery, Tarpe Mills, Miss Fury, The Pruple Zombie, EC Comics, Graham Ingles, Johnny Craig, Jack Kamen, Atlas Horror, SNAFU, Not Brand Echh, Marie Severin, Polonia Bros.

Jack meets a curious new ally who also seeks the Darkhold and informs him it might be in his birth-father's Transylvanian castle...which was purchased by one Dr. Miles Blackgar and transported, brick by brick, to an island off the Cali coast. What luck! But, Jack (and his furry other half) couldn't have prepared themselves for the horror they encounter on THE ISLAND OF THE DAMNED!

Jack Russell's new and complicated life of lycanthropy & magic curses gets even more heavy when a gang of bikers target his sister Lissa and an even more nefarious couple plot to nab Jack and force him to reveal the location of a forbidden tome from his father's collection: the legendary grimoire...THE DARKHOLD!

*Note: Jacob's snazzy new mic was accidentally unplugged this week, so his audio was recorded by his computer mic. He'll sound snazzy again next week.

FIRST NIGHT:
Hosts Jacob Balcom & Matt Howell kick the show off w/ a brief overview of horror comics, Fredric Wertham's comics code, and the explosion of horror titles from Marvel Comics in the early '70s.
The first appearance of The Werewolf/Jack Russell in Marvel Spotlight #2 is reviewed.