YMMV / Werewolf by Night

• Awesome Art:
  • Yong Montaño's work as seen in Giant-Size Werewolf #4 and #5, especially in the black and white reprints. It remains realistic despite the fantastical setting. His people look like people — it feels like you could run into them on the street.
  • Leonardo Manco, who did all the art for volume 2. His style is dark and gritty, and is not afraid to use textures and wild brushstrokes, which fits very well with the state of mind Jack's in.
• Bizarro Episode: The fifth Giant-Size Werewolf starts like any other story, with Jack figthing a Satan-worshipping sorcerer. But then he is suddenly pulled into a bizarre black-and-white/light-and-day fantasy world for one seriously trippy adventure.
• Designated Evil: Dr. Kalbfleisch and the Babylon Group from the MAX series were presumably supposed to come off as wholly evil because of what they were doing to "inter-species" people, imprisoning them and placing some of them in medically-induced comas in order to contain them and also to study them for medical research, but the narrative shoots itself in the foot by having the only "inter-species" people (Jack, Jenny, and two unnamed ones) who are actual characters and not just set dressing be nigh-uncontrollable killing machines; Jack, despite being the hero, still murdered a bunch of people as a wolfman before building his own containment cell, and Jenny, despite being portrayed sympathetically, still slaughtered an entire town when her powers manifested for the first time in 1983. So the Babylon Group does not come off as extreme as it was probably intended to be due to the only "inter-species" people that it was shown dealing with being ones with little to no control over being ferocious One Man Armies who, when it came to Jenny and the vampire-looking man, were also cases of Eats Babies.
• Complete Monster:
  • Vol. 1:
    • Issues #27-30 & 39-41: Dr. Glitternight was once a cosmic being from without reality who devoured another of their order. In a battle that destroyed countless worlds, Glitternight was bested and banished to Earth in human form. Glitternight consumes souls, subjecting them to hellish torture within himself to remold them into demons, which he intends to do to all of humanity.
    • Issues #34-37: Belaric Marcosa was a shockingly dark villain for even a 70s Bronze Age Marvel horror series. In life, Marcosa lured victims to his manor to use dark sorcery to drive them into "lewd depravity" before he sucked their lives and souls out before having them murder one another for his amusement. He then kept their souls trapped in his manor. After his death, Marcosa had more victims lured to the manor so he could torture them as well, playing dark mind games and driving his victims to distrust and murder one another before revealing himself and attempting to add their souls to his collection.
  • Moon Knight Vol. 1 issues #29-30: Schuyler "Morning Star" Belial is the dark leader of a Satanic cult he leads in the hopes of bringing about Hell on Earth. Upon learning of Jack Russell, Belial seeks to capture and force Russell into his werewolf form against the man's will, with Belial's cultists killing an elderly railyard worker for merely witnessing them. Belial eventually traps both Russell and Moon Knight, planning to sacrifice the latter before infecting himself and his followers with Russell's werewolf curse, then running rampant across the planet and until the world is an apocalyptic nightmare fit for Satan himself to use as a kingdom.
  • Ghost Rider Vol. 3 issue #55 ("Skin Games"): Morphine is a sadistic one-shot foe of Dan Ketch and a friend of Calvin Zabo, aka Mr. Hyde. A former killer-for-hire who got bored of the rote ways he usually killed his marks, Morphine founded a club he called "Skin & Bones" with fellow minded sadists so he could use it as a hub to torture random hobos to death in every way imaginable, all for the sake of providing some live entertainment to his sick, wealthy audience.
• Narm: Despite being a powerful villain, Dr. Glitternight is hard to take seriously due to his wingsuit-like robes, which make him look like a flying squirrel crossed with Sinestro. And then there is the name.
• The Woobie: Jack. Especially in volume 2 you can't help but feel sorry for him. "Top of the world, ma."

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