Curse of the Wendigo announced

[sherkahn]

As I am dropping my DC as soon as DCnU hits, I need to pick up something. And I am always grateful that here at Scans_Daily I can find something new to stimulate my mind. CosmicBookNews has the news from yesterday about a project I think might be very interesting.



From the article:

Set in France during WWI, Curse of the Wendigo follows a desperate alliance between isolated French and German soldiers, who must temporarily stop slaughtering each other to fight a new terrifying threat : the Wendigo, a creature preying on soldiers from both sides. Joining the search and destroy party is one of the very few Native Americans enrolled in the US Army at the time, who followed the evil trail of the once human Wendigo from his tribe's land up to the French trenches…

And I am sold right there on that idea.

The fact that the artist will use old photos and use the french comic style to have the environment of the setting actually feel LIKE a real place with character, and not some standard background really makes me believe I will have a refreshing (though horrific) comic experience.

Comments

[icon_uk]

Oh, liking the look of that rather a lot.

Twelve THOUSAND Native Americans fought in WWI, without even being American citizens? That's fascinating...

[arilou_skiff]

The US has had their "Serve in the army, get citizenship" thing, IIRC:

That said, that's nothing compard to the number of french, british and german colonials who served.

[thanekos]

sometimes i forget there's more to the name than big, bipedal, stupid WENDIGOooo

[proteus_lives]

WEN-DI-GOOOOO!

[espanolbot]

Just s long as they're not the lousey versions of the Wendigos from that Ron Perlman movie... which I think was called the Last Winter.

The one with the kid who played the younger brother in Malcolm in the Middle sucked too.

The one with Robert Carlyle, Ravenous, was awesome though. A good horror western, that.

The one from the BPRD comics was both interesting and sad though.

[btravage]

The only way this premise could be better is if the Native American were from Quebec Provence and serving in Canada's army (which was in the Great War longer than the USA anyway).

[kusonaga]

Sounds good, but I thought it was Marvel's Wendigo at first.

[proteus_lives]

Sounds like a good book.

Or a really shitty Sci-Fi Channel original.