She Wolf: Black Baptism, Issue #5 is the story of Lizzie, Gabby's little sister. In Issue #1 through Issue #4 of She Wolf, Gabby has a series of adventures where she believes she is becoming a werewolf because she was bitten by one, but the truth is a little bit more complicated. Anyway, Gabby is off to college, and Lizzie is having her 16th birthday party which no one attends but her friend, Pam. The first half of the comic is a nice look at country life in New Jersey. What do they say about New England states? The capital on one side, the big city on the other, and Kentucky in the middle? Or is that just Pennsylvania?
Don't worry, Issue #5 soon devolves into the wonderful mixture of fantasy and reality that we loved about the first arc. I think what makes She Wolf so great is how the reality is so real and the fantastic so much a mirror of that dark reality. Lizzie and Pam play in the creek, and Lizzie steals pornographic comics just like any curious kid her age. Then the demons come, and she's battling the forces of darkness. It's a fun comic because reading it, you never know where reality and fantasy overlap, and where one is not the other. This is all sorted out eventually, though.
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