I ♥ a sale! & I newly ♥ Scott Snyder! & he wrote 2 fabulous books last week so here goes!
American Vampire #14 (Vertigo/DC)"Sometimes you're just too close to something to see it clearly. To see it for what it really is."~Henry Jones
writer: Scott Snyder
art & cover: Rafael Albuquerque
colors: Dave McCaig
letters: Pat Brosseau
assistant editor: Joe Hughes
editor: Mark Doyle
American Vampire created by Snyder & Albuquerque
The 1st of Kara's 2 comix this week is "Ghost War Part 2".............this is the 2nd part of a story of vampires during the 2nd World War. Skinner Sweet was a new breed of vampire created in the American west who sired Pearl Jones née Bailey. Pearl & her husband Henry are hiding in Pearl Harbour where a group of vampire hunters.............who seek Pearl out to learn how to kill Skinner..........find them & recruit Henry...........who is a soldier...........to join a group hunting enemy vampires on a south pacific island. He goes with them but does not tell Pearl who in the 1st part learns that Skinner is probably on the island too. This may seem like I have given away much of the story line but believe me this is only the beginning!
American Vampire started with the assistance of the fabulous Stephen King but Snyder has not seemed to notice the loss of his partner! It is thrilling & tense & sexy!............Skinner is soooooooo much a bad boy! & Rafael continues to match the stories perfectly with his dark disturbing sketchie period art! The colors & letters are muted & dark & round out the package too perfection!
Although I am not as big of a fan of the war setting as the 1920s Hollywood or old west of the previous stories.........sorry for being too much of a fashionista I guess..............the tale does make me care far more for a style I have never particularly been interested in than I thought I could or would. So the 1st rating is.....................
Detective Comics #876 (DC)writer: Scott Snyder
artist & cover: Jock
colors: David Baron
letters: Sal Cipriano
assistant editor: Katie Kubert
associate editor: Janelle Asselin
editor: Mike Marts
Batman created by Bob Kane
"Hungry City Part 1 of 3" stars Bat-wing.............♥ Dick! ( ;9 )..............not Batman classic Bruce...............*hugs!* for Bruce!................& is a beautiful old fashioned detective story with touches on Dick's ( ♥ ;9 ) past & a killer whale in a bank! 8O
As you may have noticed I did not start with a quote because the best way to describe how much I ♥ this book is a beautiful splash page by the fabulous Jock with the poetry of Dick's ( ♥ ;9 ) words as told by Scott...........click the link to see it...............NOW!!!!!!!!! ;b:
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"It's funny, back when I was young, I couldn't understand why Bruce never used the plane...
"...why he always chose to drive the streets, moving on the ground through the alleys, when he could have just soared above it all.
"But I get it now. Because even back then he understood that Gotham is a place you can never get above, a place you can never see clearly.
"Every time you try to get some purchase, the city changes beneath you, surprising you in new, terrible ways.
"So why try? That was Bruce's attitude back then. It's still his attitude now. You stay low, close to the fight. It's all about the fight now, today, in front of you.
"I can't help it, though. I'm built differently. Because there's something about seeing Gotham from the sky that energizes me, gives me hope, if only for a moment..."
With those words we see why Dick ( ♥ ;9 ) is not Bruce but he is Batman.........as he breath takingly plunges in to the canyons of Gotham!
omg............if I smoked i would need a cigarette!
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