High Moon | |
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![]() Matthew Macgregor in the cover to High Moon, art by Steve Ellis. | |
Publication information | |
Publisher | Zuda imprint of DC Comics; Super Genius imprint of Papercutz |
Format | Ongoing webcomic series |
Publication date | 2007–2010; 2017 |
Main character(s) | Matthew Macgregor |
Creative team | |
Created by | David Gallaher Steve Ellis |
Written by | David Gallaher |
Artist(s) | Steve Ellis |
High Moon is a horror Western webcomic series featuring werewolves. It was developed in 2004 with a debut in 2007 as a part of Zuda, DC Comics' webcomic imprint. The first season concluded on July 8, 2008. Season two ran from August 16 to November 25, 2008. Season three began its run on February 9, 2009. Season four began its run on October 3, 2009. Serialization ended when Zuda Comics shut down in 2010. [1] Papercutz re-released High Moon in a new collection in 2017, consisting of three volumes for their Super Genius imprint. [2]
Created by David Gallaher and Steve Ellis, High Moon was part of Zuda's initial launch in October 2007. Month later, High Moon [3] was awarded a contract with DC Comics, where the strip was serialized on Zuda.com. Scott O. Brown was the production artist and letterer.
In the first series, a bounty hunter, Matthew Macgregor, investigates a series of strange happenings in the Texas town of Blest, where drought has brought famine and hardship to most of the town and surrounding ranches. Additionally, the nights are haunted by werewolves. While Macgregor, a former Pinkerton detective, seeks to uncover the town's secrets, he tries desperately to keep secret his own past steeped in witchcraft and the supernatural.
The second series finds werewolf-hunter Macgregor in Ragged Rock, Oklahoma, investigating a series of murders following a bizarre train robbery, and finds himself caught in a vendetta and confronting a technological monstrosity.
In series three, Macgregor helps a young woman and finds himself amid two warring factions in the Black Hills of South Dakota.
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