oh Jen

Mike Carbo's Big Apple Con on March 7th, 2015 at beautiful New York City Penn Plaza Pavilion was an intense event with a line around the block for entry. On the first floor my first encounter was with Luis Cruz of Cruzin' Comics introducing Jennifer the She-Wolf. It is a collaboration of the creator and writer Luis M. Cruz, Henry Simon and Miky Ruiz as artists properly credited on the opening page and Jorge Medina. The first page greets the reader to the year 1922 in University City of a couple arguing while driving home from a party. By the third page there is a dead man on the floor and a werewolf running around. Death, betrayal, Zombies, a supercilious king of lycan descent, lost of family and held hostage to an unwanted life is what awaits the readers to the world of Jennifer. Her life drastically changes simply because her husband chose to leave a party earlier than the time she desired. Jennifer is held captive and doesn't even comprehend why her life was spared. At the devastating loss of her family and life her hatred for the man who turned her grows. His approach to her new transformation is careless towards Jennifer and address the matter with a as a matter a fact tone. In the future when she returns to the same city where she lost everything she is hunting down zombies. There is also an introduction of a character in a wheelchair which is not as common amongst books besides Professor X. It is a book that caught my interest because of the conversation of I had with the creator and writer Luis M. Cruz who wanted to show action and the tribulations between the main character's personal trials and intricacy of the relationship she has with her daughter that is presumably dead because of the life Jennifer had to live. The content is very fast paced and appears jumpy at first but I realized the reasoning is due to a different form of storytelling. The creator dives deep into the world of supernatural and doesn't look back. The reader learns about what happens to Jennifer's family, why she is being tracked and learns much more about her destiny. My fellow friend and I agreed that it carries the feel of the old school world of monsters like the "Black Lagoon ", "Wolfman" or "The Invisible Man" when absorbing the pace of the book. I want to see how it all falls in place especially when Jennifer takes off after saving a young boy but accidentally drops her badge. I'm looking forward to the next book to see how this series executes it's monsters after taking a few pages from movies like "The Mummy" and more.

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