I've been an advocate of Scott Snyder's American Vampire series since the first time I laid eyes on it. How could any fan of bloodsuckers not be? Instead of the usual pretty-boy tripe we're used to being served these days, the fanged ones found in the pages of Vertigo's complex, genre-defying, and generation-spanning comic series are scary and vicious. Unlike Twilight, nobody sees one of the undead creatures within these pages and wants to be one.
Scott Snyder returns to the horror world he helped create with American Vampire: Second Cycle Issue #1. It's the 1960s, and vampires Skinner Sweet and Pearl Jones have moved in separate directions. Skinner passes his time in Mexico doing his own thing. Pearl is busy trying to save vampire souls who want to live undisturbed and invisible among the humans. Can the two remain apart when a new evil rears its head in...
Scott Snyder returns to the horror world he helped create with American Vampire: Second Cycle Issue #1. It's the 1960s, and vampires Skinner Sweet and Pearl Jones have moved in separate directions. Skinner passes his time in Mexico doing his own thing. Pearl is busy trying to save vampire souls who want to live undisturbed and invisible among the humans. Can the two remain apart when a new evil rears its head in...
- 3/28/2014
- by feeds@cinelinx.com (Eric Shirey)
- Cinelinx
It’s been too long, far too long, since we last delved deep into the world of American Vampire. We’ve been placated, sure. The excellent compilation volume, The American Vampire Anthology, was a perfectly terrific stopgap, with a wraparound story catching us up on what’s happening with badass vampire Skinner Sweet. But since writer Scott Snyder and artist Rafael Albuquerque’s long hiatus from the title (since January of 2013!), readers have been desperate to dive back fully into the dual histories of Sweet and Pearl Jones, American vampires. Finally, with this month’s Second Cycle, the time has come. That time is now 1965, firmly in the second half of the twentieth century. Pearl Jones is passing as a descendent of herself, planted on her family farm somewhere in rural Kansas. She’s got a secret there that speaks to the almost hippie-esque ethos of the time. It’s...
- 3/27/2014
- by Kevin Quigley
- FEARnet
First, some history: writer Scott Snyder had first envisioned the concept for American Vampire during a glut in the speculative fiction market, at a time when it was impossible to escape “sequels to Blade and Underworld and Queen of the Damned.” In an interview with Hans-Åke Lilja of Lilja’s Library, Snyder confessed to some frustration over this earlier incarnation of vampire: “All with that same look to them – the Matrix-style, sunglasses at night, leather trenchcoat, super-slick style, like they're going to some club that's too cool for you.” Snyder’s concept was to change the rules, develop an entirely new sort of vampire, a uniquely American species, as removed from the Old World vampires as possible. Vampires who can walk in the sun, for starters, or those that can be killed by ordinary means during the New Moon. Snyder and illustrator Rafael Albuquerque brought Stephen King along for the...
- 9/2/2013
- by Kevin Quigley
- FEARnet
In the world of vampire comic books, there are really only two players right now. You've got Steve Niles' "30 Days of Night" series and Scott Snyder's "American Vampire." Both are the antithesis of what movies and novels are feeding us when it comes to the undead bloodsuckers. The nocturnal creatures in Niles' and Snyder's worlds don't sparkle in the sun and remain beautiful when they change into their ravenous forms. "American Vampire Volume 5" shows Snyder is still at the top of his gory and gratifying game."American Vampire Volume 5" is made up of two story-arcs. The first one is made up of the 5-issue miniseries "Lord of Nightmares." Retired vampire hunter Felicia Book is living in hiding with her son until agent Linden Hobbes stumbles into their lives. He brings the disturbing news that a faction of the vampire world is attempting to revive the original king of the undead - Dracula.
- 4/9/2013
- by feeds@cinelinx.com (Eric Shirey)
- Cinelinx
Scott Snyder has enjoyed a successful on the Batman title since the relaunch of the DC universe. His storytelling and world building within the comic has seen old fans and new embrace the series and his story arcs featuring the Court of Owls and the Joker have been very positively received. Before Scott started writing Batman he created the series American Vampire along with Rafa Alberquerque for Vertigo (DC). I had read Snyder’s run on Detective Comics with Jock and Francesco Francavilla which I had enjoyed immensely and was directed to American Vampire by a tweet that Scott Snyder himself had sent out, recapping the previous issues before the fourth part of the ‘Death Race’ story came out. I bought the first two volumes of American Vampire shortly afterwards and it has fast become one of my favourite comics. I now have the first four volumes and am eagerly awaiting the next!
- 12/20/2012
- by James Foreman
- Obsessed with Film
Last year’s graphic novel and Tpb Top 10, was filled with some modern classics including Parker: The Outfit, Northlanders, Scott Pilgrim, and Beasts of Burden, so 2011’s offerings have a lot to live up to. As with last year’s this chart will only contain books released in 2011 that I have personally read.
1: Daytripper | Vertigo | Fábio Moon & Gabriel Bá
Fábio Moon and Gabriel Bá can do no wrong, and Daytripper is their best and most personal work to date. The Brazilian twins tell the story, or rather stories, of writer Brás de Oliva Domingos; each chapter is a day in the life of Brás, with each day ending in the same way. Daytripper is one of the most poignant comics I have ever read, chapter 8 especially, which is odd as Brás is absent for that story. I look forward to seeing how Moon & Bá follow this. I should also...
1: Daytripper | Vertigo | Fábio Moon & Gabriel Bá
Fábio Moon and Gabriel Bá can do no wrong, and Daytripper is their best and most personal work to date. The Brazilian twins tell the story, or rather stories, of writer Brás de Oliva Domingos; each chapter is a day in the life of Brás, with each day ending in the same way. Daytripper is one of the most poignant comics I have ever read, chapter 8 especially, which is odd as Brás is absent for that story. I look forward to seeing how Moon & Bá follow this. I should also...
- 12/28/2011
- by Baron Fornightly
- Nerdly
Sick, twisted, darkly comedic and irrefutably entertaining, American Vampire #5 once again proves that you don’t need the teen melodrama of Twilight and The Vampire Diaries or the over-the-top sexual escapades of True Blood to create a superb vampire series. American Vampire #5 continues the two-part tale of Pearl Jones in present day 1925 Los Angeles, California by Scott Snyder and the historical tale of Skinner Sweet in 1912 Cruces, New Mexico by Stephen King. Pearl, an abomination by ordinary vampire standards, decides to stage an assault on Bernie’s group of vampires. In issue #4 she found herself outmatched by their numbers, but this time Pearl has brought backup. Pearl teams up with Henry, who is still looking for a date with the undead vixen, to wage war against the Hollywood vampires. Now prepared for a fight, Pearl and Henry fashion wooden stakes to attack Bernie’s where he lives. ...
- 8/18/2010
- by Terry Boyden
- BuzzFocus.com
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