I Vampire #1
Wasn’t sure what to think of this book before I purchased it. Is DC creating a book for the Twilight crowd, with sparkling vampire and a superficial love story? Is it being made for those people who like Marvel Comics Blade mythos? But I have to say, after reading this first issue of I, Vampire, this book will now be on my pull list.
The story starts out in Boston, with some dialogue between long-lived vampires Andrew Stanton and Mary, Queen of Blood. In the panels we see piles of bodies that it appears Andrew has staked.We next see Andrew and Mary talking to each other, and arguing about which side they are on. Mary wants to be top dog, she wants to rule the world, she is tired of skulking around and hiding in shadows. Not surprisingly Andrew is fine with this. He has been living longer. Andrew apparently doesn’t use humans for food, he takes the route used by Louie in Interview With A Vampire, taking the blood of animals.
Andrew keeps trying to talk Mary out of building her Vampire army, even throwing out the names of the Justice League, Superman, Green Lantern, saying that those would be more than enough to stop any world-taking that she has planned.
We end the issue with Mary leaving a note for Andrew saying the war against humans has begun, and Mary taunts Andrew by telling that she knows that he will try to stop it, but they both know that he can’t.
Andrew Big, Mary Small
I’m not normally a fan of the style of art that Andrea Sorrentino uses, but for this story, it fits so well. I really like the difference between the size of wolf that each turn into, showing that the longer lived the vampire, the bigger monster you can turn into. Also, the scene where Mary grabs the bird in her wolf form is grotesquely beautiful to me.
The writing by Joshua Hale Fialkov is very good also. The dialogue between Mary and Andrew sounds like it would when you have two friends arguing, especially if they have known each other as long as they have.
