They're being picked off by werewolves (nicknamed coyotes) and new cop in town, Frank Coffey, finds himself forced to team up with Red, a thirteen year old girl with a katana who's life purpose it is to destroy the creatures.
The coyotes are the menfolk of the town given pelts cut from a great beast. When they wear the pelts, they transform and hunt. Red is part of a group of magical warrior women and they are on their own hunt for the men creating the werewolf pelts.
There's some social commentary going on in this comic about misogyny and violence.
The best thing about this is the interesting new way to create the wolves. The rest of it all seems quite generic werewolf fodder with a bit of conspiracy theory thrown in.
I'm not a huge fan of the artwork overall. At first glance I found it quite striking, but there are pages that simply don't work, where none of the characters look even remotely human (when they're supposed to) and the pages are just ugly. The first panel where the great beast appears, it looks like a giant rat rather than a huge wolf beast.
I bought volume 2 at the same time as this, so I will read it- after all as a graphic novel, it doesn't take long. However, I wasn't taken with the storytelling or the artwork in this one. and I'm hoping things improve in Vol 2.
The cover spreads are awesome though.
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