vampires Archive

  • x-force s & v 2

    The Uncanny X-Piles IV

    Welcome back to The Uncanny X-Piles, where each week X-junkies Andy and Jeff review the latest X-books! Unfortunately, this week we missed out on one book, X-Men Forever 2 #5, due to complications in getting a hold of the issue. I’m sure many of you will lose...

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  • Dark Horse Reviews: Baltimore: The Plague Ships #1

    Dark Horse Reviews: Baltimore: The Plague Ships #1

    Publisher: Dark Horse Writer(s): Mike Mignola & Christopher Golden Artist: Ben Stenbeck Cover: Mike Mignola “The Plague Ships pt 1″: Beginning several months after WW I in plague ridden France, we are tossed in the middle of a hunt. Lord Baltimore is chasing and killing a group...

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  • Vertigo Reviews: American Vampire #5

    Vertigo Reviews: American Vampire #5

    American Vampire #5 Publisher: Vertigo Comics Writers: Scott Snyder & Stephen King Art/Cover: Rafael Albuquerque Variant Cover: Paul Pope Pages: 32 Price: US $3.99 Release Date: July 28, 2010 ***CAUTION: This Review Contains Spoilers!*** 1925.  Los Angeles, California.  Pearl Jones. The American breed of vampire...

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  • Tired of Sparkly Vampires?

    Tired of Sparkly Vampires?

    Dark Horse Comics has decided to do vampires right with their new series, Baltimore: The Plague Ships! Check out this promo image for the series: The solicit reads as: “Months after a devastating plague ends World War I, Europe is suddenly flooded with deadly vampires....

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  • Gotta Have It! Figure Edition: 30 Days of Night: Marlow

    Gotta Have It! Figure Edition: 30 Days of Night: Marlow

    For 30 Days every winter, the isolated town of Barrow, Alaska is plunged into a state of complete darkness.  It’s a bitter time when most of the inhabitants head south.  This winter, a mysterious group of strangers appear: bloodthirsty vampires, ready to take advantage of...

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  • Vertigo Reviews: American Vampire #4

    Vertigo Reviews: American Vampire #4

    American Vampire #4 Publisher: Vertigo Comics Writers: Scott Snyder & Stephen King Art/Cover: Rafael Albuquerque Variant Cover: J.H. Williams III Pages: 40 Price: US $3.99 Release Date: June 23, 2010 ***CAUTION: This Review Contains Spoilers!*** 1925.  Pearl Jones. Betrayal.  Tears.  Blood.  No moon.  Retreat. After brutal,...

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  • Vertigo Reviews: American Vampire #3

    Vertigo Reviews: American Vampire #3

    American Vampire #3 Publisher: Vertigo Comics Writers: Scott Snyder & Stephen King Art/Cover: Rafael Albuquerque Variant Cover: Andy Kubert Pages: 40 Price: US $3.99 Release Date: May 19, 2010 ***CAUTION: THIS REVIEW CONTAINS SPOILERS!*** A storm is coming. July, 1925.  Los Angeles.  Pearl Jones finds her friend...

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  • Image Reviews: Turf #1

    Image Reviews: Turf #1

    Publisher: Image Writer: Jonathan Ross Artist: Tommy Lee Edwards Cover: Tommy Lee Edwards “The Fangs of New York”: Prohibition era New York was dangerous enough with gangsters filling the streets with blood on a regular basis, but now with the arrival of the Dragonmir family...

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  • Vertigo Reviews: American Vampire #2

    Vertigo Reviews: American Vampire #2

    American Vampire #2 Publisher: Vertigo Comics Writers: Scott Snyder & Stephen King Art/Cover: Rafael Albuquerque Variant Cover: Bernie Wrightson Pages: 40 Price: US $3.99 Release Date: April 21, 2010 ***CAUTION: THIS REVIEW CONTAINS SPOILERS!*** Los Angeles, 1925.  After being attacked last issue, Pearl Jones is found...

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  • Bento Bako Lite: How to Seduce a Vampire

    Bento Bako Lite: How to Seduce a Vampire

    Title: How to Seduce a Vampire Author: Nimosaku Shimada Publisher: Digital Manga Publishing, on their Juné imprint Volume: Unfortunately, it’s a one-shot.  I really wish there was more, but I think this is it.  $12.95. Vintage: 2007 by Oakla Publishing in Japan, January 2010 by...

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  • Bento Bako Weekly: Yashakiden: The Demon Princess

    Bento Bako Weekly: Yashakiden: The Demon Princess

    Title: Yashakiden: The Demon Princess Author: Hideyuki Kikuchi (Taimashin, Vampire Hunter D) Illustrations: Jun Suemi Publisher: Digital Manga Publishing Volume: This is the first volume of a four book series.  It’s a light novel, of decent length (about 280 pages), for $13.95. Vintage: 2007 in...

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  • Vertigo Reviews: American Vampire #1

    Vertigo Reviews: American Vampire #1

    American Vampire #1 Publisher: Vertigo Writers: Scott Snyder & Stephen King Art/Cover: Rafel Albuquerque Variant Cover: Jim Lee Pages: 40 Price: US $3.99 1925.  Pearl Jones and her friend are cast as extras on a silent film.  Pearl gets to meet the star of the...

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  • Deep Discussions with Decapitated Dan: Giovanni Rigano

    Deep Discussions with Decapitated Dan: Giovanni Rigano

    Welcome back kiddies. This time I have lured Giovanni Rigano into the depths to pick his brain about all things Daffodil and his other books. So sit back and relax as we find out why we should all be reading his stuff and what the...

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  • Buffy gets Some Much Needed Therapy?

    Buffy gets Some Much Needed Therapy?

    A good friend from Dark Horse sent this to my inbox a few days ago, and I thought I should share it with all of you out there in internet land. This “tweaked” panel from Buffy the Vampire Slayer Season 8 #33 speaks for itself!...

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  • Ye Olde School Cafe’: Blade: Black & White

    Ye Olde School Cafe’: Blade: Black & White

    Welcome back everyone to another exciting edition of Ye Olde School Cafe’. In this week’s column I’m going to talk about the TPB (trade paperback) Blade: Black & White. The first half of this book will be the focus because honestly, it’s way better than...

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  • Bento Bako Weekly: Anime/Manga Vampires, part 2

    Bento Bako Weekly: Anime/Manga Vampires, part 2

    Welcome to part 2 of my look at vampires in anime and manga. Again, I want to reiterate that I am not covering every single vampire title.  There are multiple others, but if I hunted down every single one of them, we’d be here straight...

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  • Princess Powerful Attacks: Buffy the Vampire Slayer: The Origin

    Princess Powerful Attacks: Buffy the Vampire Slayer: The Origin

    In 1992, a movie called Buffy the Vampire Slayer debuted in theaters.  It  parodied on the horror film cliché where young, helpless blonde women were almost always the first to die. Buffy the Vampire Slayer is about Buffy, a cheerleader, who enjoys her life as...

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  • Werewolves on the Moon Versus Vampires Review

    Werewolves on the Moon Versus Vampires Review

    Werewolves on the Moon Versus Vampires from Dark Horse comics is a great comedy/horror comic.  It’s written by Dave Land with art and lettering by the Fillbach Brothers, and Dan Jackson on colors. Dave Land has been working on comics since the mid 90′s; he...

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