Pinocchio, Vampire Slayer
Vol 3 : Of Wood and Blood
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5.0 • 2 Ratings
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Publisher Description
Pinocchio has been turned into a real boy, robbing him of his never-ending supply of wooden stakes. Even worse, he and his team of slayers are stuck on an island in the Mediterranean. They'll have to fight their way off the island before they're able to resume the hunt to save Pinocchio's love, Carlotta, and defeat the vampires and their mysterious master, the Dark Lord Dracul. That hunt will lead Pinocchio and the other puppets deep into Eastern Europe, where they encounter strange new enemies and even stranger allies. To defeat the vampires, Pinocchio will have to unravel the mystery of his own origin, and he will have to make the ultimate sacrifice.
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
This enjoyable reworking of Carlo Collodi's classic tale drops the magically animated puppet into a horror movie plot. After his maker/father Geppetto is killed by vampires, Pinocchio tries to protect the disbelieving inhabitants of his village, aided only by woodcarver Master Cherry, a greatly aged Blue Fairy and the ghost of the nagging cricket he squashed some time ago. As that last reference indicates, this is not the sentimentalized Disney version of the story; the protagonist of this book is one tough little puppet. Furthermore, although he's no Buffy Summers, as a vampire fighter Pinocchio has the advantage of a built-in wooden stake as long as he remembers to tell lies at the right time. Jensen's script is clever, full of irreverent irony. But the highlight of the book is Higgins's b&w art that offers page after page of amazement. Swirling, whirling, jittery, skittery, the story dances gracefully from grin to grimace and back again.
