The Dresden Files: War Cry #1 Review

What has happened since the last time our hero was fighting evil, read on to find out more.

Four months have passed since the events depicted in Dead Beat, a war is raging between the vampire forces of the Red Court and the White Council-a war the wizards are losing. So desperate are the Council that they’ve dragooned the experienced and the outcast to reinforce their thinning ranks of Wardens. One of these draftees is one Harry Dresden, Chicago’s only wizard for hire and a guy who’s long been looked upon with suspicion by the supernatural authorities. Now, he’s one of them, and his first big mission as a Warden is a doozy: take a small team of greenhorns to a frigid town in the middle of nowhere to rescue a handful of mortals who’ve been targeted by the Red Court. The question is, why exactly are these particular mortals so crucial to the outcome of the war? The answer will come only if Harry can keep them, and his team, alive for one very long night.

Okay, so if you’re a fan of the Dresden Files, then you love this new addition to the series. First off, we have Harry who has been brought into the ranks in order to save a group of mortals, which automatically seems a little suspicious but, hey, Harry will do it. Either way, the story is about these people and him surviving the night in order to figure out why these people are so important.

The writer does a fantastic job of creating and leading an awesome story. It is something be said when there is so much going on. There is a lot going on in this issue, which is kind of my peeve about it but the writing does the best job possible to bring out this story. It works well.

The art is spot on as far as the amount of things that it has to show. It has vampires and wizards, which, as you can imagine can bring a lot of craziness to be displayed and the artist does it and does it well.

Dresden Files: War Cry #1 is a great start to a new chapter in the series.