In a world filled with anthropomorphic animals in addition to humans, Jack Wolfgang is a world renown food critic by day and a CIA agent by night. I like the world building in this. It extrapolates that animals learned how to become more human after the <i>Town Musicians of Bremen</i> fairy tale. The art is very good.

'Jack Wolfgang Volume 1: Enter the Wolf' by Stephen Desberg with art by Henri Recule is a graphic novel about a world where animals have become anthropomorphic and live among humans.

Jack Wolfgang is restaurant critic by day and a CIA special agent the rest of the time. When a friend of his is killed by a polar bear with mob ties, Jack is drawn in to a mystery that may lead to uncovering a conspiracy. But before he does that, there are thrilling chases, cooking competitions, and romance.

I found this a pretty decent story. The world seems pretty well developed and the story reminded me of other spy type stories I've read. I like Henri Recule's art here. The character and building designs are sleek.

I received a review copy of this graphic novel from Europe Comics and NetGalley in exchange for an honest review. Thank you for allowing me to review this graphic novel.

I liked the book. Interesting premise, I am going to continue on. It is a good start to a graphic novel. The illustrations are really good.

While the artwork of ”Jack Wolfgang“ was really great, the story itself just wasn’t for me.
The concept however was really interesting.

Add this one to the did not finish pile for the year.
To be fair, I do tend to generally dislike books where the main characters are anthropomorphic animals, but this one had the added distinction of being an incredibly boring spy "thriller" with a weird and unnecessary bestiality element. Yes, the main character is a humanoid wolf who spends large chunks of the story romancing full human women. It's icky.
Also, he's supposed to be a CIA agent who has a public life as renowned food critic, but everyone TOTALLY knows he's a spy, and he keeps getting CAUGHT and rescued by randos. Not my cup of tea in the slightest

Thank you to Europe Comics for making available a digital edition of ‘Jack Wolfgang: 1 Enter the Wolf’ in exchange for an honest review. It was written by Stephen Desberg with art by Henri Reculé. It was translated from the French by Tom Imber in June 2018.

This graphic novel starts with a short history of how animals came from the time of the Middle Ages to become autonomous from humans. Tensions between animals and humans continued until the recent invention of Super Mega Tofu.

Jack Wolfgang is a wolf (naturally) who travels the world as a restaurant critic for the New York Times sampling Super Mega Tofu. Yet he has a secret identity as a C.I.A. animal agent. When his friend and mentor Rocky Dakota, a puma, is killed while on assignment, Jack soon gets caught up in a worldwide conspiracy.

An elegant wolf who is a secret agent was just perfect for me. Plus, he can dance, cook, and is very witty. I think I am a little in love! This was a great deal of fun with striking artwork.

Kudos to this book for actually establishing how animals got to speak, walk on two legs – and then spend years quibbling about half of them eating the other half. Apparently it all started with the Town Musicians of Bremen getting a foot in the door of society. Unfortunately, to some readers that will be where the fun invention ends, for this at times is just a plodding thriller, taking in no end of species and no end of globe-trotting in desperate attempts to make itself interesting. I for one was relieved when the final narrative drive kicked in, when we could see what the whole point of the plot was. That point was quite often just an excuse to take the piss out of tofu (an industrial process so many makers forget to do, don't'cha know) – certainly the Bond-styled drama needed a lot of work. A generous two stars.

Good artwork and a fast moving thriller story with Jack Wolfgang as the James Bond like character who solves the crime with a trusted side kick.

The story is interesting and well drawn.

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This is a really interesting book with a concept that I've never come across in all my reading years. The story starts off with our main character Jack Wolfgang helping out one of his CIA buddies. Jack works for the CIA but his cover is a legendary food critic that writes for the New York Times. This allows him to travel around relatively undetected to go on CIA missions.

I really liked the story of this graphic novel. It's not one I've really come across and I enjoyed reading something with a new twist on a spy story. The artwork was also really nicely done as well. I would recommend this book to fans of spy stories or mysteries. I think this would be a great addition to any library; it's a very fun read!

"Jack Wolfgang" is an interesting graphic novel with an even more interesting premise. The art is cool and the story is well written.

An entertaining spoof of the noir spy action trope. Great artwork and decent story. It did make me laugh to see adversaries having a tofu cookoff showdown. Will be keeping an eye out for the next in the series.

It's always interesting to read Belgian comics! This first part of the Jack Wolfgang comics is all about anthropomorphized animals that are trying to fit in with humans and find their place in the society. Of course they wear clothes, but differences make it hard to blend in and especially in the CIA it's tough. Jack Wolfgang works as a food critic (mostly the super tofu stuff) and he's also an agent, who needs to find out about a certain murder and what it has to do with the tofu that's not so herbivore friendly in the end. For me there weren't enough pages to pull off both Jack's professions and how they intertwine with the crimes. Mostly the comic just feels like running from a place to another and we don't get to know the characters enough. Blacksad did this way much better.

The art looks great though, as well as the panel angles. The art works nicely and creates movement in the comic, which is good, since as I said before - there is lots of "running". The pace is too quick, but the art saves a lot, which was a relief. I wish the font had stayed the same and not vary especially in size, since it eats out rhythm. The cover of the comic is surely great and the topic too, since Enter the Wolf isn't as hard boiled as Blacksad - which in this case works for the series. So, an easier crime story!

Jack Wolfgang is a juxtaposition of crime and fantasy. I especially liked the sleek artwork, which is featured in multiple panels on each page. A fine graphic novel adventure.