Frankenstein, Agent of S.H.A.D.E. + I-Vampire + Resurrection Man (USA)

[Green Lantern]

merita assai

[Owlman]

Non sono un grande fan dei vampiri con tutta questa robaccia di true blood, twilight e vampire diaries. merita?

merita e True Blood non è robaccia 

Ma continua in america?

[Thanos]

Non sono un grande fan dei vampiri con tutta questa robaccia di true blood, twilight e vampire diaries. merita?

beh ma con queste premesse non mi sembra la serie adatta a te.

[Green Hankey]

Non sono un grande fan dei vampiri con tutta questa robaccia di true blood, twilight e vampire diaries. merita?

merita e True Blood non è robaccia 

Ma continua in america?

ed è tutto tranne che l'ennesima serie commercialata sui vampiri 

[Azrael]

Let there be no doubt: "I, Vampire" is a series where Joshua Hale Fialkov and Andrea Sorrentino are never content to keep the status quo from one issue to the next. With "I, Vampire" #13, I feel that we've entered the third phase of this series' journey, and it's to their credit that these transitions have all felt both smooth and logical.

After the climax of "I, Vampire" #12 where Andrew Bennett transformed all vampires save himself into humans, the path forward was left wide open for the series to go in a different direction. Fialkov follows up on that here, with former main villain Mary now human and working with Troughton even as it's Andrew Bennett that is now the one to worry about.

What makes this work is by Fialkov pushing Mary into the narrator role for the first half of the issue. We get a glimpse inside her head and it's fun even as it's dangerous. Her explaining what it's like to be a vampire is a great monologue (especially with the reasoning on why vampires are always jumping on kissing couples), and there are a couple of extra-good punch lines. "Being a vampire gave me my powers. But being me made me awesome," sums up Mary in a nutshell; she's almost as dangerous as a human as she was a vampire, with a strong will and ego to back up what her body might no longer have built into it automatically.

When the story does shift over to Andrew Bennett, Fialkov and Sorrentino don't disappoint there, either. The wide open vista that greets us in Maine is spectacular -- how Sorrentino isn't an artistic superstar is beyond me -- and it builds well from there. The scene in the cabin is nicely claustrophobic (a contrast to the look we got outside), and the fight in those close quarters feels rather nasty. And how can you not love someone showing up to a fight with a super-soaker water gun full of holy water?

"I, Vampire" #13 keeps up the solid nature of this series, and it's nice to see it sticking around for now. Fialkov and Sorrentino's series stands nicely on its own, even as it has also successfully incorporated crossovers and appearances with Batman, the Justice League Dark, and even Stormwatch over its first year. Now that it's back on its own again, though, it's a reminder that it doesn't need those additions to be a good book. If you haven't read "I, Vampire" before, #13 is a good place to hop on board.

3.5/5

CBR

[Azrael]

Preview: Frankenstiein, Agent of SHADE #14

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[Azrael]

I, VAMPIRE #17
Written by JOSHUA HALE FIALKOV
Art by DENNIS CALERO
Cover by ANDREA SORRENTINO
On sale FEBRUARY 27 • 32 pg, FC, $2.99 US • RATED T+
• Vampire love triangle! Cain and Mary are getting a little too close for comfort as the plan to rescue Andrew Bennett nears its end.
• However, Andrew's got a plan of is own for Cain...

[Azrael]

It is completely appropriate that the opening line of dialog in Matt Kindt and Alberto Ponticelli's "Frankenstein: Agent of S.H.A.D.E." #14 is "Are we there yet?" Kindt inserts quite a bit of humor in a book that features a modern interpretation of a classic horror character in an incredibly horrific situation.

Regular readers of "Animal Man" and "Swamp Thing" are undoubtedly aware of the "Rotworld" crossover. The Rot has also claimed a foothold in "Frankenstein," which is not surprising given that Frankenstein is a cobbled mosaic of corpse parts reanimated. Coincidentally enough, he's joined in this issue by his vampire teammate, Velcoro, another undead/not living anomaly. The duo set on a quest to reconstruct a machine originally created by Victor Frankenstein, which will halt the Rot and save the world. Kindt avoids reducing the crossover to "Red Skies" fluff, but on the flipside keeps the adventure specific to Frankenstein and crew.

As he has done throughout this series, Alberto Ponticelli visualizes the strange, odd and truly bizarre into scratchy, frantic images. With his lines polished up by Wayne Faucher's inks, the artist does a great job conveying the emotions of Frankenstein and Velcoro despite their gruesome features. In addition to fighting through Rotworld, Frank and Velcoro take on a pair of behemoths and employ a zany array of gadgets concocted by S.H.A.D.E. that Ponticelli, Faucher and colorist John Kalisz imbue with life and power.

Kindt earns his stripes by not only participating in the "Rotworld" crossover, but also by his continuous expansion of the Frankenstein and S.H.A.D.E. mythology, delivering a handful of new acronyms that are as comic book sci-fi as can be. Kindt further seasons the issue with a buddy film zest, with Frankenstein as the straight man while Velcoro cracks wise and plays the card. That dynamic makes Frankenstein's occasional one-liners even more impactful and even comical. When the dust settles and this issue closes, Kindt delivers a fun story that nicely balances plot and character as Frankenstein fights against the terrible and unknown. His quest nearly complete, Victor Frankenstein's creation has a few more battles to finish before he can rest. Although there are only a pair of issues left, Kindt and company still deliver the good, the bad and even the ugly -- but the ugly is undoubtedly a plus for this issue as Ponticelli makes ugly look so good.

4/5

CBR

[Geppo86]

la serie di i vampire dovrebbe durare altri 5-6 numeri, e cambia il disegnatore

[Azrael]

Preview: I, Vampire #14

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[Green Lantern]

il 14 è stato un bel numero, come sempre. ma quindi è confermato che chiude pure questa?

[Azrael]

il 14 è stato un bel numero, come sempre. ma quindi è confermato che chiude pure questa?

Parli di I, Vampire? Non me lo ricordo, fino al #17 continua sicuramente

[Green Lantern]

chiedo perchè ho letto questo post:

la serie di i vampire dovrebbe durare altri 5-6 numeri, e cambia il disegnatore

[Azrael]

chiedo perchè ho letto questo post:

la serie di i vampire dovrebbe durare altri 5-6 numeri, e cambia il disegnatore

Forse voci, ma certezza non credo.

[Geppo86]

chiedo perchè ho letto questo post:

la serie di i vampire dovrebbe durare altri 5-6 numeri, e cambia il disegnatore

Forse voci, ma certezza non credo.

no no, me lo ha detto sorrentino, chiude anche questa