Vertigo

In an era where one of fiction's most famous monsters is best known for for its connection to teen romance, DC's Vertigo label is setting out to give the vampire its teeth back with horror's arguably biggest name riding shotgun. Hitting shops in March, "American Vampire" is a new ongoing series conceived by writer Scott Snyder, drawn by Rafael Albuquerque, and, for its first five issues, will be co-written by award-winning author Stephen King. Stretching from the days of the Old West through the subsequent decades of America's rapid ascension to becoming the world's most powerful nation, Snyder told CBR how the series aims to reinvent the idea of bloodsuckers, with the requisite amount of shocking violence removed from many of today's vampire hits.

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