Carmen Red Claw: Belly of the Beast #1
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| Writer | Rae Allen, Mike Mignola |
| Artist | Rae Allen |
| Cover Price | $4.99 |
Supernatural gun-for-hire and shape-shifting descendent of the notorious El Bogavante, Carmen Red Claw faces a new type of monster when investigating supposedly cursed ranch land. Something is killing the cattle in the area, but Carmen has to find out if it's really a beast to blame, or if humans are the real monsters here.
Writer/artist Rae Allen (The Manderfield Devil, Town with a Million Eyes) joins the Hellboy universe in this paranormal western adventure set in 1870s New Mexico territory!
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COMICON - Anton Kromoff
Jan 13, 2026Rae Allen captures the open expanse of the American West in the age of cattle rustlers and open planes. There is a brilliant artistry at play here that Rae has crafted in such a way that you can feel the warm sun and see the haze of a mirage on the horizon. Michelle Madsen‘s colorwork floods in like wildflowers and tallgrass, really lending the feel of a natural expanse that balances so perfectly between an “old west” folk story and the looming dread of something awful coming at dusk. Read Full Review
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AIPT - Kevin Clark
Jan 07, 2026The book is an entertaining combination of a Spaghetti Western and classic monster movies, with intriguing lead character Carmen Red Claw. Read Full Review
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Plot Carmen Daschier/Red Claw is a sort of bounty hunter of demons and supernatural beings when she's hired to investigate the massacre of cattle on a ranch attacked by a supernatural animal. Someone from her past warns her about what's happening... her brother Sebastian... The comic shows the tragedy Carmen experienced as a child, which changed her life in a painful and brutal way. Carmen is the owner of the Red Claw Ranch, and she doesn't need the money she earns by eliminating demons. On this ranch, some unknown people warn her that all her land is cursed. Carmen is accompanied by a talkative and annoying lizard named Yargoss and calls herself the King of the Lizards. This story is set in 1867, so it blends spaghetti western wi more
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