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Vampirella: 12 months One #1 by Christopher Priest, Ergün Gündüz and Giovanni Timpano is launching later this month, and it should not be laborious to search out copies. That is as a result of comedian guide retailers, at FOC, have ordered 51,700 copies of the primary concern. That was after preliminary orders of solely 16,254, over 300% improve at FOC. Of these numbers, about 14,000 are additionally retailer-exclusive covers.
Christopher Priest, who has been writing Vampirella for the final three years as one of the vital politically incisive, racially difficult, a woke carving up of America that the sort of people that would often be offended on Fox Information and/or YouTube have missed, as a result of it is simply Vampirella, goes additional again for the character’s origin.
VAMPIRELLA YEAR ONE #1 CVR A TURNER
DYNAMITE
(W) Christopher Priest (A) Ergun Gunduz, Giovanni Timpano (CA) Collette Turner
Following the explosive conclusion to Vampirella/Dracula: Unholy comes the following chapter in Christopher Priest’s Vampirella saga! Wished for homicide, and with each demon, shaman, vampire, whack-job zealot, reporter, and legislation enforcement officer on Earth looking for her, Vampirella has taken refuge in an undisclosed location the place she questions why she got here to our world within the first place.
In Outlets: Jul 27, 2022
SRP: 3.99
This restricted occasion collection shouldn’t be solely an exploration of the Daughter of Drakulon’s earliest days, but additionally a observe as much as the explosive conclusion of Vampirella / Dracula: Unholy. Our vampiress is now wished for homicide, with each demon, vampire, whack-job zealout, reporter, and legislation enforcement officer on Earth looking for her. As she takes refuge hidden away, Vampirella begins to recall and query how and why she got here to this planet within the first place.
Priest shared, “I am really a bit shocked this hasn’t been achieved earlier than. There are huge areas of Vampirella’s life, particularly her childhood on Drakulon, which stay largely unexplored. Half our collection can be a type of ‘pilot’ episode to gauge curiosity in artist Ergün Gündüz’s superb reinterpretation of Drakulon and the brand new historical past we created throughout our ‘Interstellar’ story arc in Vampirella #18-21.”
“The remaining points will take an odd activate the E.T. story, analyzing the plight of many refugees who come to America searching for asylum and freedom. Vampirella leaves Drakulon on a mission of mercy, unaware that, as a result of crude state of Earth expertise, it will likely be a one-way journey.”
“Stranded in a wierd land, Vampi is a literal unlawful alien, immigrant and misplaced soul in 1969 New York Metropolis–a much more harmful metropolis than it’s right now. Vampirella doesn’t perceive our language, our tradition, our politics. We land her squarely again within the pages of her unique Warren Publishing guide, with cameos from among the unique solid. The guide is a variety of enjoyable whereas additionally exploring essential themes of who we’re as Individuals and methods to reside as much as our core values.”
Artist Giovanni Timpano returns for instance the present-set framing sequences. For the core story, Priest is reunited with Ergün Gündüz after the pair began the entire run again on Free Comedian E-book Day 2019. Letterer Willie Schubert continues to contribute as nicely. Collectively, the inventive crew is overhauling and increasing the basic origin story from Forrest J. Ackerman and Tom Sutton that initially amounted to only a handful of pages.
Dynamite invitations readers to journey to the scenic, unique websites of Drakulon, after which again in time to Sixties New York Metropolis, the place Vampi finds herself grappling with melancholy and intense loneliness as she makes an attempt to construct a brand new life. Via the collection she is going to meet her first buddies just like the fan-favorites Pantha and Pendragon, in addition to her first enemies. She’ll even be navigating the flip of the last decade amidst considered one of America’s most turbulent durations. Seize your go-go boots, Afro Sheen, and love beads!”
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