Took eight years after Home on the Strange, but a third Wynonna Earp mini-series did eventually emerge. This was the one I referred to two posts ago, whose announcement Ragnell posted about. This time around, it's Earp and the other Marshals dealing with "The Consortium", which is a group of immortals that like to try and control things in secret. I'm not sure what sort of supernatural beings they are, as sunlight doesn't seem to bother them.
There's a Dr. Robidoux involved as well, who is the sort of guy who experiments on turning humans into monsters. He hasn't appeared in the earlier stories, but Smith writes it that he's been at this a while, and the Marshals have been after him as well. Unfortunately, now he's in a secure base that has not only armed immortal guards, but yetis as security, so getting to him is a bit of a problem. Fortunately Wynonna has a friend in the covert division of Fish & Wildlife (feel like I'm back watching The Invisible Man with all these covert agencies that are part of larger, more innocuous agencies) who pals around with four Sasquatches (named Chuck, Bronson, Clint and Duke, because of course they are). Duke's the one with a yeti in a headlock.
Wynonna feels like less of a focal point in this story, as Smith spends more time on how Robidoux is double-crossing The Consortium and Yetis fighting Sasquatches. Which, fair. That's fun to see. Smith also makes Smitty the butt of more jokes this time as apparently he and holly aren't dating anymore, so now she gives him a lot of crap about being old and whatnot. Wynonna's largely focused on business through all this, although she makes plenty of cracks at Smitty's expense as well. Overall, it seems like Smith, having dealt with Wynonna's heritage in the previous mini-series, wanted to tell an adventure that could also serve to fill out the setting. Give the reader a sense of some of the power struggles that aren't even related to what the Black Badge Division may be doing.
Villagran's art is very different from the artists on the earlier series. Rougher and grittier for sure. Reminds me a little of some of San Glanzman's DC war comics stuff in places. Or maybe not Glanzman, but someone in that vein. More graphic with the depictions of violence, though. At one point a yeti grabs a Marshal by the skull and rips his entire backbone clean out. Lots of headshots, since apparently that's how you deal with immortals, and Wynonna chops a guy's head off with a sword made of some metal Smitty took from the spacecraft that crashed at Roswell. (She actually had the sword in Home on the Strange, I just didn't mention it.)
Next week, Wynonna Earp gets a TV show, and there are comic tie-ins to discuss.
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