Bad Blood #2
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- £1.49
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Publisher Description
An unlikely ally aids our hero in his hunt for vampires. Using her expertise
in the seedy underground, they travel to back alleys and dungeon haunts. But
when the real vampires attack, will she become another casualty?
• Bram Stoker Award winner Jonathan Maberry (Ghost Road Blues)!
• Eisner Award winner Tyler Crook (B.P.R.D., The Sixth Gun).
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
Very smart and very bleak, this Bram Stoker Award nominated graphic novel works fresh changes on traditional and pop-cultural vampire lore. Trick Croft is a college freshman fighting leukemia. When a monstrous vampire attacks him, it recoils in dismay, poisoned by Trick's polluted blood. After the maimed bloodsucker begins slaughtering Trick's friends, the young man tries to become a vampire slayer, searching through the freaky nightclubs of vampire wannabes. He meets Lolly, a heroin addict who sees vampirism as salvation from her wasted life until she actually meets some of the horde menacing Trick and becomes his ally. When they find a mentor, an ageless vampire hunter, readers may be lulled into thinking this is going to be another variation on a familiar theme, but Maberry (the Rot and Ruin seres) knows exactly what readers expect, and he plays expertly on their hopes and fears. Crook's anti-glamorous art fits the script perfectly, all the way to the tense climax. Readers who value honesty and intelligence over comfortable clich s will find them here.
