Vampire Comics

[chuckro]

Judd Winick's Blood & Water was underwhelming. It plays very much like a feature film in terms of content and pacing (which makes me wonder if it started life as a screenplay) and is a pretty standard "joining the supernatural world" story: Man is dying, becomes vampire, accidentally unleashes horrible evil, turns out to be the specialest vampire ever, beats down evil and wins girl. The characterization isn't bad, and the art is decent, but I've just read this same story too many times at this point.

I picked up the first two volumes of Angel: After the Fall this past week, and while the first was all right (there are some interesting things happening to Angel and crew following the end of the series, Joss Whedon goes crazy when he isn't limited by an F/X budget, and most of my criticisms of Buffy Season 8 apply), the second volume contains three issues of redundant flashback vignettes and a dozen pages of random pin-ups. How was that worth my $18?

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is a pretty standard "joining the supernatural world" story: Man is dying, becomes vampire, accidentally unleashes horrible evil, turns out to be the specialest vampire ever, beats down evil and wins girl

Sounds like Avatar...

[trinityvixen.livejournal.com]

Joss Whedon goes crazy when he isn't limited by an F/X budget, and most of my criticisms of Buffy Season 8 apply

I have had a similar issue with some of his comics. It seems to me that a lot more of his troublesome politics--interpersonal relationships especially--become magnified in print. I mean, Dollhouse is creepy, but the comics get away with much worse in terms of both WTF-ery and objectification. It's just...icky.

[(Anonymous)]

Judd Winick got his start illustrating MY Idiot's Guides! He did several of them, if memory serves. Never met the guy, but I did like his spot illos.
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