Emilio Estevez is one of those creatives most closely associated with an era and his famous family. His father and brother have much more celebrated careers than he but Emilio has shown more talent than both. He is both a director and actor whose resume proves how gifted his vision as each movie he directs is, is markedly different from the other. A feat neither of his famous family members have been able to accomplish.

I love his work in both Young Guns movies and his start in Breakfast Club remains iconic. It is some of his other movies like Judgement Night, that despite its B movie formula is both fun and tense. As I always wondered if someone injected some supernatural elements into that movie, how much better it would have been?  In the third issue of Jim Butcher’s The Dresden Files: Welcome to the Jungle, the timetable gets tighter as the body count rises, and Harry is running out of options on how to stop this evil.

We find Harry and Will running from a possessed devil dog, one that causes carnage throughout downtown Chicago, and one that Harry has to put down before it causes any more damage as he uses his wand to take it down. As they go back to Will’s lab, they find a few of her coworkers killed by one of the gorillas who were under the control of Watson, as Harry uses his memory powers to uncover how the massacre occurred. As we soon find out just how Watson has amassed her powers and just how dark is her black magic. By the end of the issue, Harry gets caught in a trap by Watson, one which he regrets not seeing.

Overall, an issue with wall to wall action which leaves readers on the edge of their seat. The story by Jim Butcher is well-paced and intelligent. The art by Ardian Syaf is gorgeous. Altogether, an issue that proves that sometimes when you think you are on top of your game, you may still be a few steps off.

Story: Jim Butcher Art: Ardian Syaf
Story: 9.0 Art: 9.0 Overall: 9.0 Recommendation: Buy