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Nanny & Hank
Bluewater Comics
Nanny and Hank were enjoying their golden years in a retirement community, planning trips to see their grandchildren, and living the simple life... until they cross paths with a blood-drunk vampire. Now their lives will never be the same in this mini-series that turns all expectations you have about horror on its ear.
Chuck's Summary: Geriatric vampires = a yummy treat!
Dracula The Company of Monsters
Boom!
He's back from the dead and starring in a new ongoing horror series from the mind of Kurt Busiek. A powerful, predatory corporation acquires a valuable asset - Dracula! They think they own him, but no one can own the Son of the Dragon. There's a monster in their midst that puts Hannibal Lecter to shame - and he plans to gain his freedom in blood. It's bloodsuckers vs. bloodsucker, as Busiek brings an incredibly modern spin to the Dracula mythos.
Chuck's Summary: Truest book to the Dracula Mythos since Tomb of Dracula.
Vampire, PA
Moonstone
From the writer of Zombie-Proof comes this trip to Western Pennsylvania's oddly vampire-rich environment! Vampires in suburbia? Dean Marklin didn't think so. In fact, he didn't believe in vampires at all. Then he met one. Then he met lots more, and they all wanted to kill him! Now he's a vampire hunter, and he's pursued by a beautiful vampire while he tries to hold onto what's left of normal life. How do you think that's working out for him?
Chuck's Summary: A viable Buffy replacement for slayer fans
Ides of Blood
Dc Comics
The year is 44 B.C. Julius Caesar has conquered Transylvania, and vampyres are Rome's new slave class. But when rich mortals start turning up dead with fang marks on their necks, Valens, a vampyre slave-turned-Roman soldier, plunges into the blood-soaked underworld of Rome to capture the Pluto's Kiss Killer. If he can prove himself, he'll earn rank and riches beyond what anyone this side of the Tiber has ever seen! But if he fails, he just might find himself on top of the pile of bodies!
Chuck's Summary: Reminiscent of Anne Rice's historical vampirism...good read.
True Blood
IDW
Blood and sex mix on a hot rainy night at Merlotte's, when Sookie and her friends are trapped by a vengeful spirit who feeds on shame. People die and dirty secrets are revealed as Sookie, Bill, Eric, Sam, Tara, Jason, and Lafayette and are all coerced to dig deep and tell painful memories from their past-those things we all have locked within us that we never tell another living soul!
Chuck's Summary: Compliments the TV series well.
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