billcoffin 's review for:

Coyotes Volume 1 by Sean Lewis

2.0

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Coyotes is a slam-dunk of a premise - a war in the desert between between werewolves and the women who are both their hunters and prey, with some Gaian mythology as well - that is largely undone by its own uneven execution. The artwork is often extraordinary, especially in its use of color, but then we get panel after panel of our katana-wielding heroine whose sword is something the artist never really figured our how to draw. Likewise, the writing can veer from dark and fascinating to lazy and self-indulgent - did this really need to take place in a town called City of Lost Girls? All in all, Coyotes had a lot going for it, but the rough spots become impossible not to notice, and the end result feels like what would have been a terrific Vertigo story run through an early Image filter to produce something that is neither weight and dark enough, nor flashy and high-octane enough. It just feels like it can't quite find its rhythm.