WILLOW CREEK Issue #0 and Issue #1

By Denny Williams and Christian Beranek

Jan. '74 Jake Landis, famed hunter comes to Willow Creek to find Bigfoot, speaking with the Narrator who isn't invited to come, but'd receive updates. Landis tracks blood and a footprint, a couple days later the Narrator receives an anon. call about Landis ending the investigation, but the man hangs up without answering if he'd been on Landis' team. Next Landis is screaming for help in the woods, his crewmember with night goggles to see into the foggy distance, takes them off before turning around to see a wolf-monster-like creature. A newspaper article shows Willow Creek being popular for Bigfoot sightings, and how long they'd been seen there.

Nov '58, large prints are located which 1 anon. ranger admits to never seeing prints like these before. Dec. '59, Ivan Sanderson stirs up curiosity with an article of his own of BF roaming the forests of N. Amer. Nov '67, Patterson and Gimlin footage is mentioned. Mar. '68, Jake Landis goes to Willow Creek and wonders whether his expertise will yield results.

An intriguing start, and the art is dreamy, showing the mysterious horror. The 2nd half is another "Tales" type horror, complimentary to the 1st story, which I've skipped, since it won't continue in the 1st issue. I'm interested to see how this ends, since there aren't any more issues.

People come through Willow Creek either for BF or flat tires, then sometimes tourists feel like they've become a part of the town, but should mind their own shit. The story opens on an attempted rape after a perv strands a girl a mile out and tries for the assault, she kicking him in the nuts and running through the snow. She runs into a monster with fangs, and later in the night a couple is driving who turn out to be co-working cops, driving to a spot with people looking panicked out in the snow. When the 2 go out to investigate, they know the locals who say they'd run into something which spooked them, the Sheriff then sees the torn up corpse in the snow.

The man describes their experience of seeing a creature in the woods, and shooting at it, so the cops now must determine whether the murder is man-made. A dozen miles from Willow Creek, the Hoopa Indian tribe's res can be located, and Honaw informs in g/fath of the murdered girl. The 2 discuss a "true blood" being close and'd know soon whether he's ready. Meanwhile, Deacon McKay's moved back into his gen's long fam home with his own fam, and upon returning chats with his wife Mandy outside about the body on the hwy, but then mentions suspecting BF, his son hearing and thinking it was bs, but kid-style, since he's smoll.

Elsewhere, an older man and wife are at home and the hubby decides to stay up due to seeing the girl, as well. Then, he hears a loud noise outside, and when checking, sees his loose pet raccoon, but then hears the racc get kilt. He widens his eyes and shoots, and when his wife checks on him, he's laying on the ground. Half hr later, Deacon's speaking with the wife and is updated of someone in the station confessing to a murder, and Honow'd shown up, apparently working at the local hardware store. So,t he other reason Deacon'd returned to town is due to the new cop station.

He speaks to Lenny, who says he'd pretty much killed the girl by scaring her off into the snow. Lenny is a pussy and doesn't explain why he confessed, simply wanting the protection of the cell for knowing what is out there. When Deacon suggests BF, Lenny denies this creature's the same. It looks like a differently similar type of monster.

Definitely a fat tease, the art is fine, but underwhelming for the lengthy, boring dialogue, and copout ending, with not enough BF-not-BF. If found cheap, it's fine as a quickie, issue #0 is much better.