Barb Wire #3 continues with her hunting Wyvern Stormblud to collect one of the craziest bounties in her life. Seeing as how she’s in dire straits financially, the producers of her reality TV show, as well as the leaders of the two biggest gangs in the city, want her to pursue Stormblud she has no other options to get out of this predicament. But she doesn’t enter Stormblud’s hideout by herself since she has a full camera crew in tow along with her partners. The plan is to lay a trap for Stormblud before he gets back at the end of the night after a regular day but they’re surprised at what they find. He apparently still sleeps in an actual crib surrounded by bottles and stuffed animals, and none of that reveals his true violent nature. After a period of time Stormblud finally returns in a drunken stupor ranting in a way he probably doesn’t even understand but even in this state he’s still able to toss a car clean off the dock into the water. Eventually he settles in and passes out for the night, and that’s when Barb decides to make her move to subdue him. But has she bitten off more than she can chew and unnecessarily risking her life in the process?

It was really good that the action was entertaining because Stormblud’s limitations as a character showed through this issue since nothing new was revealed about the character’s backstory or origin of his strength. Parts of his drunken stupor were humorous and raw but his nonsensical rants throughout the entire issue wore a little thin.  I noted in my review of issue #2 that with the overall character dynamics and scenarios in the first 2 issues that Stormblud might not have to be more than a raving lunatic because of his role in shaking up the fragile status quo. But since the state of the city wasn’t addressed and it was just Stormblud he didn’t have more of an impact than an unstoppable bulldozer. The Mike Tyson quote, however, was hilarious and I have to acknowledge that. I just hope that next issue gives a little more than Stormblud to be entertaining.

SUMMARY

Barb Wire #3 is an action-packed issue that finally pits Barb against Stormblud in a no holds barred match, and does an excellent job in portraying his unbelievable strength relative to others. The action and artwork are more than up for the task in making this issue entertaining, however Stormblud’s proclamations eventually wore a little thin at certain points this issue. But it’s not bad that an issue is devoted mostly to action as long as the enjoyable story continues to progress in the next issues.

Release Date: 9/2/15

Writer: Chris Warner

Artist: Patrick Olliffe