Vmt: Vampire Menstrual Tension

by William Simpson

VMT brings together three diverse vampiric existences in an encounter with a darker, more malevolent evil, insistent on shredding the veil of life and indulging in a brutal orgy of carnal sacrifice... but of course, you have to get the flies out of the ointment first.

168 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 2022

About the author

William "Will" Simpson is a Northern Irish comic artist who started off in British comics, like Warrior and 2000 AD, and has since illustrated comic books for such industry heavyweights as DC Comics and Marvel Comics.

He has worked on such comics as Batman, Judge Dredd and John Constantine of Hellblazer.

Since 2000, Simpson has done a lot of work with films, including storyboarding. for City of Ember and Closing the Ring, and illustrating animated films. He is also partner in the Belfast based animation company Rogue Rocket.

Reviews

[Leila Anani · Rating 4 out of 5]

I've been a massive fan of Will Simpson's Vamps for decades - Sorely disappointed that never got picked up for a movie - but I hear its a Vertigo rights issue. So you can imagine my delight when I heard Will simpson was returning to the subject of female vamps with attitude on a different label...

VMT is indeed a lot of fun. We follow three very different female vampires: Sun, a newly bitten vampire who seems to have been bitten during PMT - massive attitude and fairly uncontrolled rage against men; Mercy who was bitten by a priest and has a vendetta against men of god; and finally Sheherazade a goddess who seems to inhale souls as much as blood. While these girls aren't thus far as charismatic as the girls in vamps, I do like how different they are, and the fact that they don't sparkle but go for the jugular.

The Marquis De Sade and his monstrous vampire/monk lover the Monsigner (who turned Mercy) are torturing local prostitutes and scarificing them to resurrect a Lovecraftian dark god.

We have a police officer trying to connect the murders and a female vampire hunter with a tortured past behedding the ghouls Sun leaves behind. Our hunters and three vamps all end up at De Sade's slaughterhouse for a big showdown....

So this ticks a lot of boxes for me. Lovecraftian tentacle gods, female vampires with attitude, great dialogue, a lot of action and bite - as with vamps its quite cinematic too. We don't get a huge amount of back story/character development in this first volume - I hope more comes in subsequent volumes - especially Sheherazade.

Over all though, big thumbs up from me. If you like Vamps and the American Vampire series this is right up your street.

[Al Capwned · Rating 2 out of 5]

The story is confusing and the characters are not developed that much, although I like Will Simpson's prose and references.