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Their introduction is front-loaded with expository dialog, but it quickly slows down and we are witness to the tense and difficult relationship between a mother and a daughter who don't always get along but love each other in spite of it all.\" - Philippe Leblanc, The Beat \"Lauren is well characterised from the start, but the people she's surrounded by, good, bad and indifferent, are also easily understood, their motivations clear, which enables the plot to roll out smoothly... Allan has supplied a drama to lose yourself in, and set up a lot of potential going forward. In an age of effects wizardry being cheap, TV production companies could do far worse than look in his direction.\" - Frank Plowright, The Slings \u0026amp; Arrows Graphic Novel Guide \"This new and original, full color, deftly scripted, impressively illustrated comic book series is a fully engaging, page-turner of a read and would prove to be an immediate and enduringly popular addition to personal reading lists and community library collections.\" - Midwest Book Review Publisher Marketing : Lauren Greene's world is turned upside down when her mother rescues a newborn artificial intelligence from the powerful and secretive Advanced Research Projects Corporation (ARPC) - a shadowy organization determined to weaponize the sentient life-form. After her mother's sudden death, Lauren is left alone, struggling to survive and protect the extraordinary AI now in her care. Desperate to escape ARPC's relentless pursuit, Lauren flees her home of Detroit and disappears into the wilds of Alaska with her loyal dog, Sankō, and the young and vulnerable AI. She soon realizes, however, that running away won't solve her problems. Determined to take control of her fate, Lauren sets out on a perilous road trip back to Detroit, hoping to find a way to secure the AI's safety once and for all. On the long journey home, Lauren and her companions are relentlessly hunted by ARPC agents, forcing her to risk everything to keep the AI from becoming a weapon. Outmatched and outnumbered, Lauren must summon all her courage, outwit her pursuers, and teach her unlikely companion what it means to fight for survival. If she fails, she risks losing not just her own life, but the future of a new kind of intelligence. WOLF'S HEAD is part action-adventure, part drama, featuring strong women of color in the real world. This trade paperback edition collects issues #15 and #16 of the ongoing comic book series. Written and illustrated by Canadian writer\/artist Von Allan (winner of a 2019 CBC Trailblazer award, star of a CBC Arts Exhibitionists short, recipient of the 2014 Corel Endowment for the Arts Awards, and artist\/writer of the road to god knows... , STARGAZER Volumes 1 and 2, and WIZARDS FOR HIRE - CHEAP! ), WOLF'S HEAD will excite readers of all ages. For more information, please visit https: \/\/wolfs-head.vonallan.com\/ Contributor Bio: Allan, Von Von Allan has been living and breathing comics in the Great White North for a number of years and has built an active and well-respected presence in the larger comics community. He has written, penciled, and inked a number of short stories, comic books, and original graphic novels. All have been well-received by fans, retailers, and critics and continue to sell today. Allan is the recipient of the 2014 Corel Endowment for the Arts Award (https: \/\/ottawaartscouncil.ca\/en\/council-news\/two-artists-receive-corel-endowment-arts-awards), the 2019 CBC Trailblazer Award (https: \/\/newsinteractives.cbc.ca\/longform\/eric-julien), and multiple arts grants from the City of Ottawa (https: \/\/ottawa.ca\/en\/arts-heritage-and-events\/funding-calls-and-opportunities\/cultural-funding\/cultural-funding-summary-reports). Allan is also a member of the Independent Book Publishers Association (IBPA) and the Dog Writers Association of America (DWAA). Contributor Bio: Boswell, Sam Sam Boswell has been finding dangling modifiers, correcting spelling, and fixing misused apostrophes in fiction, non-fiction, university theses, graphic novels, technical manuals, and government bureaucratese for almost 20 years. 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Their introduction is front-loaded with expository dialog, but it quickly slows down and we are witness to the tense and difficult relationship between a mother and a daughter who don't always get along but love each other in spite of it all.\" - Philippe Leblanc, The Beat \"Lauren is well characterised from the start, but the people she's surrounded by, good, bad and indifferent, are also easily understood, their motivations clear, which enables the plot to roll out smoothly... Allan has supplied a drama to lose yourself in, and set up a lot of potential going forward. In an age of effects wizardry being cheap, TV production companies could do far worse than look in his direction.\" - Frank Plowright, The Slings \u0026amp; Arrows Graphic Novel Guide \"This new and original, full color, deftly scripted, impressively illustrated comic book series is a fully engaging, page-turner of a read and would prove to be an immediate and enduringly popular addition to personal reading lists and community library collections.\" - Midwest Book Review Publisher Marketing : Lauren Greene is a young Detroit woman whose life is turned upside down after her mom saves a newborn life-form, a kind of artificial intelligence, from a secretive corporation that intended to use the powerful baby for war. When her mom dies, Lauren is left alone to figure out what to do with the new life-form while also trying to make ends meet in her real life. While hiding in Alaska with her rescued Artificial Intelligence and dog, Lauren Greene has been pulled into a desperate search for a group of locals who've disappeared into an abandoned government complex. With no help from the police - and afraid that asking anyone else for assistance would risk revealing the AI to the people hunting it - Lauren chooses to return to the mysterious complex and search alone, despite the mysteries and terror she knows await her there. During her search, Lauren breaks her arm... and still can't find them. Retreating, Lauren is now faced with pain, bills, and the pesky fact that the people she was looking for are still lost. If there's any hope of finding them, Lauren has to learn to ask for help. But trusting others is the one thing that is not easy for her. With time running out, will Lauren enter the mine alone? Or can she get over her issues, find a team to go back into the mine, and face danger... together? 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In a longer work like WOLF'S HEAD , the interplay between the fantastic dimensions of his stories and the tiny details of life in his art are what makes his voice unique in contemporary comics.\" - Professor David Beard, International Journal of Comic Art \"Lauren is well characterised from the start, but the people she's surrounded by, good, bad and indifferent, are also easily understood, their motivations clear, which enables the plot to roll out smoothly... Allan has supplied a drama to lose yourself in, and set up a lot of potential going forward. In an age of effects wizardry being cheap, TV production companies could do far worse than look in his direction.\" - Frank Plowright, The Slings \u0026amp; Arrows Graphic Novel Guide \"This new and original, full color, deftly scripted, impressively illustrated comic book series is a fully engaging, page-turner of a read and would prove to be an immediate and enduringly popular addition to personal reading lists and community library collections.\" - Midwest Book Review Publisher Marketing : Lauren Greene is a young Detroit woman whose life is turned upside down after her mom saves a newborn life-form, a kind of artificial intelligence, from a secretive corporation that intended to use the powerful baby for war. When her mom dies, Lauren is left alone to figure out what to do with the new life-form while also trying to make ends meet in her real life. With the main villains from the secretive organization in the hospital after an abortive attempt to steal the baby life-form back, Lauren feels like she has some breathing room to figure out her next steps; she takes a job as a janitor and tries to settle into a normal life. She also makes contact with an ex-scientist, Jack Dhillon, who has a personal hatred for the AI's creator; together, they plan to work on understanding the life-form and figure out how to use it for good. Lauren feels like she's made progress on sorting out her life... but she hasn't counted on the anger from one of her enemies, who has a personal vendetta against her. He spent time in the hospital and now he doesn't want the life-form back, he just wants Lauren dead . When a bounty killer lands in town and shows up at Lauren's apartment armed with an Electromagnetic pulse weapon and a gun, things start to go very badly, very quickly; the young life-form takes a full blast from the EMP but manages to save Lauren and her dog before collapsing. Lauren must gather her dog, the wounded artificial life-form, and some necessities and run for safety. She lands at Jack's place where she then gets a phone-call from a potential new ally named Super Bob Sanchez; he has information that will rid Lauren of her villainous pursuer for once and for all, put some money in her pockets, and give her a way out of Detroit... if she can trust him. But before Lauren can sort out her next steps, she gets a phone-call from the villain who wants her dead; he's furious that his bounty killer couldn't get the job done, so he's kidnapped Lauren's best friend and he'll trade that life... for Lauren's. 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It's particularly noticeable in the relationship between Lauren Greene and her mother. Their introduction is front-loaded with expository dialog, but it quickly slows down and we are witness to the tense and difficult relationship between a mother and a daughter who don't always get along but love each other in spite of it all.\" - Philippe Leblanc, The Beat \"Lauren is well characterised from the start, but the people she's surrounded by, good, bad and indifferent, are also easily understood, their motivations clear, which enables the plot to roll out smoothly... Allan has supplied a drama to lose yourself in, and set up a lot of potential going forward. In an age of effects wizardry being cheap, TV production companies could do far worse than look in his direction.\" - Frank Plowright, The Slings \u0026amp; Arrows Graphic Novel Guide \"This new and original, full color, deftly scripted, impressively illustrated comic book series is a fully engaging, page-turner of a read and would prove to be an immediate and enduringly popular addition to personal reading lists and community library collections.\" - Midwest Book Review Publisher Marketing : Lauren Greene is a young Detroit woman whose life is turned upside down after her mom saves a newborn life-form, a kind of Artificial Intelligence (AI), from a secretive corporation that intended to use the powerful baby for war. When her mom dies, Lauren is left alone to figure out what to do with the new life-form... while also trying to make ends meet in her real life. Lauren begins working with the young AI, but is having a difficult time creating a bond. The AI, similar to a child, either does not understand or simply cannot comprehend everything that Lauren is asking it to do. Desperate for help, Lauren reaches out to an ex-scientist, Jack Dhillon, who has a very personal hatred for the AI's creator. Lauren hopes that Dhillon will teach her to work with the AI, but can she convince him to help? At the same time, Lauren realizes that her friends are in danger simply for knowing her and she decides to protect them as best she can... with difficult results. This volume also introduces a new character, Super Bob Sanchez, a truck driver who is not (under any circumstance!) a hero. WOLF'S HEAD is part action-adventure, part drama, featuring strong women of color in the real world. This trade paperback edition collects issues #7 and #8 of the ongoing comic book series. Written and illustrated by Canadian writer\/artist Von Allan (winner of a 2019 CBC Trailblazer award, star of a CBC Arts Exhibitionists short, recipient of the 2014 Corel Endowment for the Arts Awards, and artist\/writer of the road to god knows..., STARGAZER Volumes 1 and 2, and WIZARDS FOR HIRE - CHEAP! ), WOLF'S HEAD will excite readers of all ages. For more information, please visit https: \/\/wolfs-head.vonallan.com\/ Contributor Bio: Allan, Von Von Allan has been living and breathing comics in the Great White North for a number of years and has built an active and well-respected presence in the larger comics community. He has written, penciled, and inked a number of short stories, comic books, and original graphic novels. All have been well-received by fans, retailers, and critics and continue to sell today: \"the road to god knows...,\" the heartwarming story of a teenager growing up with a schizophrenic mother; and \"Stargazer,\" an all-ages sci-fi\/fantasy adventure. 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In an age of effects wizardry being cheap, TV production companies could do far worse than look in his direction.\" - Frank Plowright, The Slings \u0026amp; Arrows Graphic Novel Guide \"This new and original, full color, deftly scripted, impressively illustrated comic book series is a fully engaging, page-turner of a read and would prove to be an immediate and enduringly popular addition to personal reading lists and community library collections.\" - Midwest Book Review Publisher Marketing : Lauren Greene is a young woman who has quit her job as a police officer in Metro Detroit after becoming frustrated with growing police violence. She is slowly becoming more aware of the injustices around her; the divide between rich and poor, racism, lack of opportunity for many people, health and illness bankrupting and destroying people, and more. At the same time, and unbeknownst to Lauren, a secretive corporation has created an artificial intelligence (AI) designed for war. An AI that might actually change the world... but not for the better. Struggling to find work in a tough economy and unsure of what to do with her life, Lauren suddenly has a new problem: her mom, Patty, has found and connected with the newly born AI. And, partially due to that connection, the AI has become empathic and humane, much to the frustration of the corporate executives and scientists who created it. After Patty helps the young AI escape under the cover of a huge research factory fire, she turns to her daughter for help keeping it safe. Giddy with excitement, Patty doesn't recognize the danger she has put herself in...but Lauren does and she is terrified. Her fear is realized when the two women are confronted by corporate forces who want to stifle knowledge of the AI and keep it for themselves. As Lauren does her best to keep her mom safe, the tensions over the AI erupt between them, leaving Lauren on her own. Broke, down on her luck, and needing a job very badly, Lauren turns to her friends for help, all the while keeping her mom's discovery a secret. WOLF'S HEAD is part action-adventure, part drama, featuring strong women of color in the real world. This trade paperback edition collects issues #1 and #2 of the ongoing comic book series. Written and illustrated by Canadian writer\/artist Von Allan (winner of a 2019 CBC Trailblazer award, star of a CBC Arts Exhibitionists short, recipient of the 2014 Corel Endowment for the Arts Awards, and artist\/writer of the road to god knows... , STARGAZER Volumes 1 and 2, and WIZARDS FOR HIRE - CHEAP! ), WOLF'S HEAD will excite readers of all ages. For more information, please visit https: \/\/wolfs-head.vonallan.com\/ Contributor Bio: Allan, Von Von Allan has been living and breathing comics in the Great White North for a number of years and has built an active and well-respected presence in the larger comics community. He has written, penciled, and inked a number of short stories, comic books, and original graphic novels. All have been well-received by fans, retailers, and critics and continue to sell today: \"the road to god knows...,\" the heartwarming story of a teenager growing up with a schizophrenic mother; and \"Stargazer,\" an all-ages sci-fi\/fantasy adventure. Allan is the recipient of the 2014 Corel Endowment for the Arts Award (https: \/\/ottawaartscouncil.ca\/en\/council-news\/two-artists-receive-corel-endowment-arts-awards) and the 2019 CBC Trailblazer Award (https: \/\/newsinteractives.cbc.ca\/longform\/eric-julien). Contributor Bio: Boswell, Sam Sam Boswell has been finding dangling modifiers, correcting spelling, and fixing misused apostrophes in fiction, non-fiction, university theses, graphic novels, technical manuals, and government bureaucratese for almost 20 years. 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After her mom makes an astounding discovery, Lauren must fight for their lives against forces that will stop at nothing to stop them.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003ePublisher Marketing\u003c\/strong\u003e: \"Lauren is well characterised from the start, but the people she's surrounded by, good, bad and indifferent, are also easily understood, their motivations clear, which enables the plot to roll out smoothly. By the end the We All Want to Change the World title has taken on a different meaning, and over an enjoyable 160 or so pages Allan has supplied a drama to lose yourself in, and set up a lot of potential going forward. In an age of effects wizardry being cheap, TV production companies could do far worse than look in his direction.\" Frank Plowright, The Slings \u0026amp; Arrows Graphic Novel Guide (https: \/\/theslingsandarrows.com\/wolfs-head-book-1-we-all-want-to-change-the-world\/) \"This new and original, full color, deftly scripted, impressively illustrated comic book series is a fully engaging, page-turner of a read and would prove to be an immediate and enduringly popular addition to personal reading lists and community library collections.\" - Midwest Book Review (http: \/\/www.midwestbookreview.com\/wbw\/feb_19.htm#GraphicNovel) \"Allan is able to imbue Wolf's Head with some of the heartfelt energy that was present in his previous graphic novel. It's particularly noticeable in the relationship between Lauren Greene and her mother. Their introduction is front-loaded with expository dialog, but it quickly slows down and we are witness to the tense and difficult relationship between a mother and a daughter who don't always get along but love each other in spite of it all.\" - Philippe Leblanc, The Beat (https: \/\/www.comicsbeat.com\/review-von-allan-wolfs-head\/) Publisher Marketing : Lauren Greene is an ex-police officer who turned her badge in after becoming frustrated with the police force's corruption. She's had enough of violence and is thinking about packing her bags and hitting the road to see how she can make a difference out in the larger world, when her mother Patty shows up at her door with a complication . It turns out that Patty's employer - a secretive military corporation - has created an artificial intelligence to fight humanity's wars. Unfortunately for the corporation, the AI fell in love with Patty's humanity and orchestrated its own escape through her. Giddy with excitement, Patty brings the AI straight to Lauren for help, not realizing the danger she's putting herself and her daughter in. But Lauren has dealt with people like this; she knows what they're capable of and she is terrified. Her fears are realized when she and her mother are confronted by corporate goons who want the AI for themselves and are willing to do anything to get it. As Lauren does her best to keep herself, her mom, and her family safe, the tensions over the AI erupt into violence... and suddenly Lauren is on her own. The new little life form doesn't want to go back to the corporation and Lauren realizes it cannot be forced to live out its life as a war machine. There is already enough corruption, inequality, and violence in the world; the AI has to have a chance to help humanity - peacefully - while figuring out its own existence. Together with the AI, an eccentric cast of friends and family, and her dog, Lauren must figure out her next steps... while keeping herself alive. This deluxe hardcover edition collects the first six issues of the ongoing comic book series WOLF'S HEAD . Contributor Bio: Allan, Von Von Allan was born red-headed and freckled in Arnprior, Ontario, just in time for STAR WARS: A NEW HOPE. The single child of two loving but troubled parents, Von split most of his childhood between their two homes and, consequently, spent a lot of time in the worlds of comics and wrestling. He managed an independent bookstore in Ottawa for many years, all the while working on story ideas in his spare time. Eventually, he decided to make the leap to a creative life. Von currently lives in Ottawa, Canada, with his writer\/editor geek wife, Moggy and their husky dog, Corbin. 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