Bad Wolf is an Urban Fantasy comic created by John Stewart and Dyego Jack, and published through Bad Donut Comics. It was crowdfunded via Kickstarter.
Way back during World War II, the Nazis attempted to create werewolf super-soldiers by mixing human and wolf DNA. Decades later, the unscrupulous A.R.E. Co. got ahold of the Nazis' notes and tried to improve on their experiments, creating true wolf-human hybrids, but they lost control of this project and a number of the hybrids got out into the world. In the modern day, a descendant of this program, Lupita Luka, now works for the US government, hunting down others of her kind who have gone rogue.
This series contains examples of:
- Alliterative Name: The main character is named Lupita Luka. One of her associates is named Lee Langschen.
- Depending on the Artist: Lupita's costume is usually skimpy, but some of the variant cover artists go even further, drawing her in just a skimpy bondage-style harness or lingerie with fishnets.
- Eye Scream: In the first issue, Lupita puts a baseball bat through the eye of one of her attackers.
- Never Suicide: After Lupita and her team notice that one of the A.R.E. Corporation's employees, Dr. Karen Terry, is using the name of an 80-year-old woman despite not looking 80, they decide to do a wellness check and the real Dr. Terry and find her dead from what appears to be a self-inflicted gunshot wound. Lupita orders them to check for gunshot residue on the woman's hands, convinced that it's probably a set-up.
- Our Werewolves Are Different: While true werewolves exist in the world of "Bad Wolf", there are also a number of hybrids, like Lupita, who were the product of experiments.
- Pint-Sized Powerhouse: The third issue introduces Lee "Poison" Langshen, a diminutive kickboxer.
- Queer Colors: One of the variant covers for the first issue features Lupita posing against a background of yellow, pink, and indigo in the formation of the pansexual pride flag. The second issue also has her visiting a strip club during her down time and requesting a lapdance from a woman.
- Sole Survivor: The US government first became aware of the Nazis' werewolf program after one of their soldiers survived an ambush in the Ardennes Forest in 1944.
- Spotting the Thread: In the first issue, Lupita notices that a biker bar in El Paso has a lot of bikes in front of it, but nobody is actually in the bar. It turns out the bar is a trap; the bikers come in for a drink, and get captured to feed the werewolves that live there. The werewolves then sell the bikes to keep the bar funded so that they can keep luring in more prey.
- Stripperiffic: Lupita's costume consists of a skimpy harness, a thong, and some boots, and sometimes she doesn't even bother with the boots. Possibly justified in that she is a lycanthrope and thus more conservative clothing might inhibit her transformations.
- Stupid Jetpack Hitler: Lupita is the descendant of a Nazi program to create werewolf super-soldiers.
- Variant Cover: Each issue has multiple variants, including several covers featuring photos of women dressed as Lupita.
- Woman Were-Woes: Lupita Luka is one of only a handful of known female werewolves, and this leads to a bunch of annoyances. For starters, she frequently has to run around in a skimpy outfit because form-fitting clothing gets in the way of her transformations. Second, being a werewolf gives her some strange appetites. She also suffers blackouts and memory loss that may be related to her transformations, which becomes a problem for her when she is framed for murder and can't entirely account for her whereabouts during that time.
