Four hundred years of love and war

[arbre_rieur]

Four pages from I, VAMPIRE 1, which explores the role of vampires in the DC Universe. It's written by Joshua Hale Fialkov, who did the recent Monkey King one-shot for Marvel, though obviously, he's using a very different voice here.

The series stars two vampires: Andrew Bennett, who's a pretty decent, upstanding guy, and his lover for four centuries, Mary, who... isn't. In fact she kind of wants to take over the world.

The past:





Flash-forward to the present (though the caption boxes are continuing the conversation of the past):



Back to the past:

Comments

[darkknightjrk]

You know, when I first saw this during the relaunch news and saw the cover for the first time, I thought it would probably be a mild Twilight clone and, while a smart business decision, probably wasn't for me.

Boy how fucking wrong was I.

[drexer]

On one side I'm happy that DC is producing good stuff on semi-alternative genres. On another... goddamnit I don't need something more on my pull list.

[jlbarnett]

yeah seriously if this results in anything but vampire slaughter by the Justice League, JLI, JLD, Stormwatch, etc. etc it's completely unbelievable

[q99]

They seems to see that too- "You can convince them this will be their deaths," "We will live forever in their minds."

[nyadnar17]

This looks awesome. I can totally get being completely in love with someone with whom you admire everything about....except the fact that they want to take over the world.

[wizardru]

This....this isn't what I dreaded, at all.

Good to know that some of the new 52 exceeds expectations, for a change.

[filthysize]

Been hearing a lot of people talking about how this is the surprise title of the relaunch. I don't think anyone was expecting much from another vampire book about pretty brooding vampires, but apparently it's really good? I dunno, I may pick up at least #1.

[hyperactivator]

I love foe yay! This is right up my ally.

[eyz]

I dunno for you guys, who seem to actually dig this, but I'd have prefered a book featuring a funny I...VAMPIRE the same way he was portrayed in that DOCTOR 13 story from a little while ago :P

Plus, is it only me or is there a serious lack of humor genre titles in DC's new lineup?....-sigh-

[stubbleupdate]

I know that it's not, but that looks a lot like Jae Lee

[jlroberson]

Who would also work well here.

[silverzeo]

Like to see how this "Mary" would last long in a real 3rd World Country, wonder how far she can go from there, much less complain about...

[glprime]

???

[twospirit.blogspot.com]

After seeing the cover, I thought, "Why does he get pants?"

[donnblake]

A fair point, but they don't seem particularly present in any of the scans here.

[meowshi]

Man, every time I think I'm over vampires, something always brings me back.

[sinisterlink]

Hmm...Well, this could be good, but I'm already getting American Vampire and that one basically fills up all of my vampire needs.

[wtfomfg2]

You know, I have an odd respect for anyone who actually calls themselves the "Queen of Blood." I might have to check this out.

[shadowpsykie]

i prefer Stormageddon, Dark Lord of All :D

[shadowpsykie]

hmmm this actually looks good... dammnit....

[meowshi]

That's not a rabbit, it's a goose.

Dumb vampire.

[bruinsfan]

Hey, be thankful she's looking to Elmer Fudd as her inspiration rather than Bugs. If the latter were true, all those superheroes would be screwed.

[autohobbs]

I skipped picking this one up, it just...didn't seem like it would be good. Thank Odin that a friend of mine purchased it, and told me to read it. It's good, quite good.