Collaborates on new comic book
Since this announcement originally came out around the busy Halloween season, it’s easy to see how this one slipped by us (shame, shame). But with its release date looming, there’s no better time than now to tell you about “American Vampire.”
The forthcoming DC comic book arrives this March and will mainly be done by writers Scott Snyder and artist Rafael Albuquerque. However, the first five-issue arc will feature a storyline by Stephen King (who presently has the pretty damn good “Under the Dome” on the new release shelf in book stores).
Snyder’s storyline is set during the Jazz Age and focuses on Pearl, an ambitious modern woman with starlet dreams. She frequents Hollywood’s speakeasies and dance-halls searching for her first big break, only to find something far more sinister waiting for her.
Meanwhile, King’s story provides the origin of the very first American vampire: Skinner Sweet, a bank robbing, murdering cowboy of the 1880s. Skinner is stronger and faster than previous vampires; he has rattlesnake fangs and is powered by…the sun.
Following the conclusion of the first story arc, Snyder and Albuquerque will trace Skinner’s bloodline through various decades of American history.
Pretty cool. Visit your local comic shop and have them put one aside for ya!
Source: DC Comics
