Book Review: Teen Wolf issue #3

Book: Teen Wolf issue #3 by David Tischman with illustration by Stephen Mooney, color by Adam Chong and letters by Ed Dukeshire

Cover by Joe Corroney

Edition: Digital

Description:

PARTY! Scott goes on the offensive, attacking Allison's father and the Hunters in a last-ditch attempt to get the serum that will enable him to return to human form. And he better do it quick. Lydia's party is in two hours and Allison's laid down an ultimatum--if he doesn't show up, their relationship is over.

Jackson gets off on watching Scott's life crumble, but nothing motivates a teen-age Werewolf like a hot girl threatening to break up with him. Can a last-minute assist from Derek and Stiles help save the day? Scott deals with the idea that he may never be human again, as the first comic book story based on MTV's new hit series concludes!



Rating: 3 stars

Review:

The final issue of this miniseries, opens right where the last issue ended with Scott McCall facing off against Kate Argent after he had found the antidote. It should have been a quick fight especially since Scott had the upper hand after he disarmed Kate but she received some unexpected help.

If you recall in my review for the second issue, I thought Kate had gone to the movie with her niece Allison or a friend since the woman who was with her had long dark brown hair. However, in this issue the identity of the woman who helped Kate was revealed to be Allison's mother, Victoria. See this is why I can't help wondering if anyone involved in creating this miniseries actually watched any episodes of Teen Wolf because Victoria Argent has short red hair not long brown hair. And she definitely has a more intense/scary vibe in the show than in the comic.

Anyway, after Victoria used a stun gun to knock out Scott, he was then placed in a van and driven away by hunters. Following the hunters in order to rescue Scott was his best friend Stiles Stilinski accompanied by Derek Hale. Although the duo rescued Scott, he was still without the antidote he needed to allow him to change back from his werewolf transformation that he was currently stuck in. Thankfully Stiles figured out a solution.

Rescuing Scott wasn't the only reason Derek had for being at the hunters' secret lair, he wanted to send them a message that wouldn't go unnoticed. With the hunters ordeal out of the way, Scott was ready to go with his girlfriend Allison to Lydia Martin's themed birthday party. Allison picked out rather suitable costumes for her and Scott. However, Lydia and her boyfriend Jackson Whittemore had the worst costumes, her's was a swimsuit while his was his lacrosse uniform. Seriously, those two would have had the best costumes that money could buy or something designed for them. Again this makes me wonder if the writer and artist did any research before creating this miniseries because I don't get a sense they were familiar with any of these characters nor what was happening on the show.

This was an okay conclusion to this three issue miniseries but it definitely could have been better. The writing and artwork continue to be less than stellar and the annoying narrator voice from the first issue was back. It really felt like a waste stretching out this story over three issues when it could have been completed in one or two issues at the most especially given how lackluster the overall story was. I would loved to have seen what story a better writer and artist could have created because this one could have been so much better. Also, the description really does not go with this issue, it's as if whoever wrote it didn't read this third issue.

As I have mentioned before, I don't think the creative team put in much research because so many characters at times were shown as being out of character along with so many other things that were shown wrong. I thought Derek Hale and Lydia Martin were never shown as being in character  throughout the entire miniseries.

This third issue wasn't bad but I did have one serious issue with it. I was disappointed that there were two panels that were only there to sexualize Allison who was shown in her underwear. One panel also included in the narrative box "she's comfortable in her own skin...as much as a 17 year old can be". That's really disgusting 

Overall, I think MTV and Image Comics released a subpar miniseries instead of taking the time to find a writer and artist who could have created something much better than this.