Wolf Comic Reviews

Exactly what it says on the tin. A blog dedicated to reviewing wolf comics (with a dash of other wolf projects in the mix) written by a comic-lover and aspiring artist for the sake of fun and artistic criticism. All reviews are chock-full of spoilers.

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on the one hand, there’s nothing more pretentious then whinging over amateur internet comics maybe 50 whole people have read before

but on the other hand, crit is helpful and it sparks interesting discussion among those amateur comicers

but does it all have to be about wolves? we’ll see

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hmm

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Let's see top of my head suggestions to review: Off-White, Wurr (don't know if Wurr is wolfy enough for this blog), Chakra: Battle of the Titans, or BRimE (Be Reflected in My Eyes)

The only one of these I’d rather not review is Wurr since it’s not exactly a wolf comic, more like a general canine comic. Otherwise I’d love to do all of these someday.

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The Best of Bad Decisions? I'm biased because I personally really like that comic. The main character is a coywolf, so I don't know if it's applicable.

I’m actually reading that one next and I have to admit, it looks really interesting! Coywolves are fine here btw!

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What do you think of the new BBA character designs?

Compared to most wolf character designs, they’re still pretty dull. I still don’t get how they can tone down both Swiftkill and Ripetide and still make Bloodspill neon red, but I mostly find the main characters aside from Cricket to be pretty generic good guy wolves. Love Cricket’s look, though, and a lot of the background wolves are neat. Shame they couldn’t inject a bit more variety into the protagonist.

Compared to the original designs, however, they’re a lot better. Now we can actually tell the characters apart by more then their hair, and they actually look like they have personalities.

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Getting back into the feel of things. My laptop was wiped a while back and I lost a review I was working on, and that really put me off of doing them for a little bit. But I’m back and jiving to read some more!

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I return after all these hundreds of years to say damn, the new BBA sure does look edgy.

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Accidental Account Termination

Tumblr goofed up and deleted my account for a while there, but they’ve restored it for me!

Anyone else encountering this problem or other issues with the site should send in a report through the Support Page. They may not get to you for a while, but if they haven’t given you any reason as to why your account is glitching/terminated/etc. it was probably a mistake.

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Good News

I got my laptop back. Expect updates!

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Do you do guest reviews? I recently did a review on the wolf comic Asmundr (can't link, sorry). It's not the same format as your reviews, but I think it covers it's major strengths and weaknesses pretty well. Are you planning to review Asmundr as well?

I have no plans to review Asmundr because the protagonist looks to be a dog (some fantastical dog breed, I think?) instead of a wolf or wolfdog, which means the comic doesn’t fit the current review criteria. Unfortunately that means a guest review about it wouldn’t fit into the blog. If I’m wrong in my assumption about the protag’s species, however, feel free to correct me.

Despite that, your review was very lovely and thorough, so I’d encourage anyone who wants to have a look at it to go read it here. (Warning for mentions of death and sexual assault.)

I’ve actually been thinking about allowing guest reviews if enough people were interested. It would offer new content when I can’t produce any and would allow a totally different perspective on things. Would anyone be interested if guest reviews became a thing here?

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Oh No!

My laptop is currently in the shop, so it’ll probably be a while before I can write any reviews again as I always save my writing in Word documents for editing and future reference.

Probably just gonna fill the void with tutorials and stuff til then.

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Can you reivew Running wolf Mirari?

Plan to!

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you can read twilight spirits on the twilight-spirits account on deviantart

Ahh, nice!

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can you review twlight spirits, wild fangs, cinderstone ECLIPZA, zoey's story and wolf song? they can all be found on deviantart

Twilight Spirits: Isn’t that the comic the infamous BlueShineWolf started but never got anywhere with? If you could find me the pages somewhere (in English - some translations into other languages exist, but I can only read English and some German) I might give it a look over, but I don’t know how far along it got or if I could say anything new about the quality. BSW bailed on deviantArt a few years ago and took the original English pages with her.

Wild Fangs: Certainly!

Cinderstone Eclipza: Though there are wolves in the story, the protagonist is a feline. Doesn’t fit the criteria for reviews, I’m afraid.

Zoey’s Story: Can do!

Wolf Song: Alrighty!

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Idea: Personal Critiques?

Something I’ve kinda been mulling over for a while is the idea behind this blog. That is, I firmly believe that criticism directed towards the works of various creators can greatly benefit the aspiring creators and artists aside from the ones critiquing. After all, when an art class has a critique session, it’s very possible for onlooking students who are not having their work looked over can learn something from the criticism the work receives, right? That’s the entire point of this blog: if I elaborate on various wolfy projects, then yeah, I may benefit the original creator if they stumble upon my reviews at any point, but the people who will really benefit most, I think, are the small handful of onlookers I’ve gathered.

But what about direct critique towards the works of people who haven’t made wolf comics, or are planning on it but want to hone their art/writing skills a little better?

What I propose, if anybody would be interested, is also allowing submissions from people who want a personal critique session where I point out the goods and bads of their own work. Like, individually submitted story fragments and anatomy studies and so on which I either reply to in public or in private based on the preference of the person looking for critique.

Does that sound like something anybody would be interested in?

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do you still have a list of stuff you're going to review?

Yes, and I’ve got about 90 or so items on it lol. I really should post it publicly some time.

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A recommendation for a written story, how about The Sight by David Clements-Davies? The only other wolf book I can remember from the perspective of wolves is Julie's Wolf Pack.

It sounds like it could very well be an interesting story! However, as of right now, my focus here is amateur comics and stories and animations, not professionally published and distributed ones. Perhaps that will change in the future, but as of right now my focus lies with the budding artists and writers.

I never read Julie’s Wolf Pack, but in middle school I read the novel it was a sequel to, Julie of the Wolves. I recall liking it a lot, but I can’t remember how it ends or hardly anything that happened. I believe there was a level of anthropomorphism that seems kinda silly to me nowadays for a story posing itself as realistic, but I can’t remember enough to determine whether or not I’d like it today.