Summary

  • Legendary G.I. Joe writer Larry Hama has launched a Kickstarter campaign for Mounties vs. Werewolves, his latest horror comic.
  • The Mounties vs. Werewolves Kickstarter campaign runs until September 14, and gives fans the opportunity to Hama's exciting new project, which will show that he is still one of the top creators in the industry.
  • Larry Hama's legacy as a comic book icon, and his perfectly-suited skills for the comic book medium, makes Mounties vs. Werewolves a must-read story, and the Kickstarter a must-back, in order to bring the project to fruition.

After the phenomenal success of the G.I. Joe Compendium set earlier this summer, original Joe writer Larry Hama is launching his own project on Kickstarter: Mounties vs. Werewolves, an all-new horror comic from a legend of the industry. With a career writing G.I. Joe, Wolverine and Batman, any project with Hama’s name on it will excite comic fans, and this latest comic sounds like some good, old-fashioned horror fun.

Hama's crowdfunding campaign for the project is currently running on Kickstarter. Mounties vs. Werewolves comes from the team of writer Larry Hama and artist Guy Dorian, Sr. The forty-eight-page debut issue will follow the story of Canadian Mountie David Lawrence, and if the title wasn’t enough of a clue, he’ll be coming up against some angry beasts who only come out when the moon is full.

Featuring story and layouts by Larry Hama, with Guy Dorian, Sr. handling the finished art, the Mounties vs. Werewolves Kickstarter launched on August 15th and will conclude on September 14th.

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G.I. Joe Legend Larry Hama Launches A Kickstarter For His Latest Comics Masterpiece: MOUNTIES VS. WEREWOLVES

Mounties Vs. Werewolves #1 – Written BY Larry Hama; Art By Guy Dorian, Sr.

Mounties vs. Werewolves #1 cover, featuring Mounties approaching on horesback as werewolves devour prey.

As an author, Larry Hama has always made the most of his opportunities, and the Kickstarter campaign for Mounties vs. Werewolves is just the next extension of that.

The Kickstarter page for Mounties vs. Werewolves lays out the storyline of the new series, setting up a classic horror scenario in the wilds of Canada:

In 1922, David Lawrence, a veteran of the Great War in , and a Deputy Inspector in the Royal Canadian Mounted Police is assigned to a remote outpost in northern Alberta. The quiet posting he had been expecting turns out to be anything but. The small rag-tag unit he commands is actually a top secret sub-agency whose mission is to kill werewolves and prevent them from spreading south to prey on larger settlements and population centers.

For fans of Hama's work, Mounties vs. Werewolves is a fun next step in what has been a kind of creative renaissance; G.I. Joe has had a resurgence set in the shared Energon Universe continuity, along with a revival of G.I. Joe: A Real American Hero, written by Hama.

Larry Hama started his career in comics working as Wally Wood’s assistant in the early seventies, after which he ed Neal Adams’ Continuity Associates. After working as a penciler, Hama would eventually make the jump to being an editor and writer in the 1980s. By his own ission, Hama took the job writing the G.I. Joe comic because no other writer at Marvel wanted the task. As an author, Larry Hama has always made the most of his opportunities, and the Kickstarter campaign for Mounties vs. Werewolves is just the next extension of that.

Larry Hama’s knack for characterization and action/adventure plots make him uniquely suited to the comics medium, and it seems as though Mounties vs. Werewolves will be continuing this proud tradition.

Larry Hama Brings Horror To The Canadian Wilderness In Mounties vs. Werewolves

Kickstarter Campaign Runs Until September 14

Mounties vs. Werewolves cover, a mountie reacts in shock as a werewolf leaps out to attack him.

Larry Hama’s knack for characterization and action/adventure plots make him uniquely suited to the comics medium, and it seems as though Mounties vs. Werewolves will be continuing this proud tradition. ing Hama on this endeavor is artist Guy Dorian, Sr., an industry veteran with credits like New Warriors and Night Thrasher to his name. Hama summarized the new series best, writing:

Mounties vs Werewolves is DEADWOOD meets THE HOWLING with a dash of SASKATCHEWAN, and a soupçon of X-FILES…It’s gonna be KILLER.

With his new series Mounties vs. Werewolves, famed G.I. Joe writer Larry Hama will set out to prove that he is still one of the top creators in comics.