I, Vampire #9 Review

After the game-changing events of Rise of the Vampires, Andrew has to decide what to do with an army of vampires who aren’t allowed to feed. He has them camped out in the Utah desert, which turns out to be a bad start. The inherent humor in this situation is played up by Joshua Fialkov, who shows his protagonist buying an obscene amount of cattle for no readily apparent reason and dealing with a couple hillbillies with his mind-blowing new powers. Fialkov even mentions those “other” vampire properties, but this one is where it’s at.

I normally focus my reviews on the insides of the comic, but the choice of cover designs for this series begs discussion. The first several covers featured a dated romance novel design, but of course with vampires baring their fangs instead of Fabio. This issue’s cover makes a riff on the popular Eat, Pray, Love novel. These covers are targeting women, but given the content, I can’t say I’d ever recommend this comic to my sister. She loves Twilight, but I think after a few issues of this dark and visceral story she would never be able to look at Edward the same again. Then again, maybe that’s a good thing.

Andrea Sorrentino gets a chance to stretch his artistic legs and deliver a new kind of imagery. Showing a horde of vampires in broad daylight might seem non-threatening, but he uses what little shadow exists in that environment to create some downright creepy visuals. Over at the Van Helsing lair, he outdoes himself by creating a gigantic and imposing door adorned with their logo, but the real treat is what he shows off inside. Yikes.




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