Wynonna Earp TV series
Written by Beau Smith
Art by Joyce Chin & Pat Lee
IDW Publishing
I have not written a review of a television show for this site before, but decided to with Wynonna Earp as a companion piece to my review of the IDW Publishing TBP reviewed elsewhere.
Wynonna Earp follows Wyatt Earp’s great granddaughter as she battles demons and other creatures.
That sounds fun from the outset, although the real key is that the particular demons have a connection to the souls of those grandpa Earp planted ages earlier. That makes the story line a tad more interesting.
The series stars Melanie Scrofano as the ‘Peacemaker-pistol-packing’ Wynonna. One episode in on CHCH in Canada, (Syfy stateside), and she has just enough attitude and flip to make her character interesting.
Earp ends up joining the US Marshalls as part of a ‘Black Ops’ section dealing with demons, yes it’s not real cutting edge in terms of a story hook.
But this series will only work if it keeps the humour mixed with the gunfights and campy redneck demons.
Other reoccurring characters of note are agent Dolls played by Shamier Anderson, eye candy for the gals, he is Earp’s boss once she is blackmailed into the Black Ops crew.
And perhaps the most intriguing of the cast is Tim Rozon as Doc Holiday, yep that Doc Holiday, climbing back out of a well from the depths of Hell by the looks of it.
In an age where comic book-based TV shows are all over the channel schedule, there is not a lot here to make Wynonna Earp a sure-shot winner.
But it sorts of fits into that realm somewhere between Supernatural and Warehouse 13 in terms of flavour, there is likely to be fans, whether enough for a season two is yet to be seen.
Wynonna Earp TBP
Written by Beau Smith
Art by Joyce Chin & Pat Lee
IDW Publishing
This was a bit of a divergence for me in terms of my TPB reading. I tend not to read black & whites. Yes there were the old Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtle books decades ago, and a few others, but the allure of comics as a kid, even the old Charlton titles, and the beloved Classic Illustrated books, was the colour.
But this one, printed in 2013, was in the $5 box at the local comic shop, and since Wynonna Earp happened to be launching as a new TV series, I picked up the book.
It is actually a fun read.
There’s nothing deep here.
Or, for that matter nothing startlingly original.
Heroes taking on demons, vampires and werewolves is something Sam and Dean Winchester have been doing forever on Supernatural. At least Wynonna is better looking than either Winchester, although I am sure female readers will argue that.
That said, connecting the main character back to the famous gunslinger Wyatt Earp is to say the least very cool.
Yes I am a sucker for corny flavour like that in comics. It is what makes the medium the fun one it is.
In this particular TPB the connection is very much name only, but you are left knowing there is a legacy to the Earp name, one which means taking on the critters that inhabit the shadows or our nightmares.
This book might have been one I would have passed on at cover price, but at $5 it was a great find.
And with the new TV series (I’m going to give a review too as well), it was a sweet appreciated find, and well worth giving a read if you like demon-hunting gunslingers.
