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I, Vampire #1
I, Vampire #1: Tainted Love
For hundreds of years, vampire Andrew Stanton kept mankind safe from the horrors of the supernatural world, thanks to a truce he made with his ex-lover Mary, the Queen of the Damned. But now that truce has reached a bloody end and Andrew must do everything in his power to stop Mary and her dark forces from going on a killing spree!
20 pages, Kindle Edition
First published September 28, 2011
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About the author
Joshua Hale Fialkov
443 books140 followersJoshua Hale Fialkov is the creator (or co-creator, depending) of graphic novels, including the Harvey Nominated Elk’s Run, the Harvey and Eisner nominated Tumor, Punks the Comic, and the Harvey Nominated Echoes.
He has written Alibi and Cyblade for Top Cow, Superman/Batman for DC Comics, Rampaging Wolverine for Marvel, and Friday the 13th for Wildstorm. He’s writing the DC relaunch of I,Vampire, as well as debuting the new Marvel character The Monkey King. This fall sees the launch of The Last of the Greats from Image Comics with artist Brent Peeples.
He also served as a writer on the Emmy Award Nominated animated film Afro Samurai: Resurrection, and as Executive Producer of the cult hit LG15: The Resistance web series.
Elk’s Run, Tumor, and Alibi are all currently in development as feature films. He has written comics for companies including Marvel, Wildstorm, IDW, Dark Horse, Image, Tor Books, Seven Seas Entertainment, Del Rey, Random House, Dabel Brothers Productions, and St. Martin’s Press. He has done video game work for THQ, Midway Entertainment, and Gore Verbinski’s Blind Wink Productions. He also wrote a Sci-Fi Channel movie starring Isabella Rossellini and Judd Nelson. Unfortunately, at no point in the film does Judd Nelson punch the sky and freeze frame. Joshua grew up in Pittsburgh, PA, went to college in Boston, where he got a BFA in writing and directing for the stage and screen, and then worked in the New England film industry, until finally deciding to move to Los Angeles to do it properly. He lives with his wife, Christina, daughter, Gable, and their cats, Smokey and the Bandit.
Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/joshfialkov
Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/joshuahalefia...
Photograph by Heidi Ryder Photography
He has written Alibi and Cyblade for Top Cow, Superman/Batman for DC Comics, Rampaging Wolverine for Marvel, and Friday the 13th for Wildstorm. He’s writing the DC relaunch of I,Vampire, as well as debuting the new Marvel character The Monkey King. This fall sees the launch of The Last of the Greats from Image Comics with artist Brent Peeples.
He also served as a writer on the Emmy Award Nominated animated film Afro Samurai: Resurrection, and as Executive Producer of the cult hit LG15: The Resistance web series.
Elk’s Run, Tumor, and Alibi are all currently in development as feature films. He has written comics for companies including Marvel, Wildstorm, IDW, Dark Horse, Image, Tor Books, Seven Seas Entertainment, Del Rey, Random House, Dabel Brothers Productions, and St. Martin’s Press. He has done video game work for THQ, Midway Entertainment, and Gore Verbinski’s Blind Wink Productions. He also wrote a Sci-Fi Channel movie starring Isabella Rossellini and Judd Nelson. Unfortunately, at no point in the film does Judd Nelson punch the sky and freeze frame. Joshua grew up in Pittsburgh, PA, went to college in Boston, where he got a BFA in writing and directing for the stage and screen, and then worked in the New England film industry, until finally deciding to move to Los Angeles to do it properly. He lives with his wife, Christina, daughter, Gable, and their cats, Smokey and the Bandit.
Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/joshfialkov
Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/joshuahalefia...
Photograph by Heidi Ryder Photography
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Displaying 1 - 6 of 6 reviews
March 22, 2020
These characters are new to me, so they'll take some getting used to. I like how this issue lays out the rules of vampires. We see them shapeshift, and, in the tradition of Bram Stoker's Dracula, they can be in sunlight, which weakens them but doesn't kill them. We also understand how miffed vampires might feel, seeing the Earth inherited by aliens and masked humans. So this feels a bit X-Men to me. The art is shadowy sometimes, which fits the genre but also obscures a bit too much. And the color scheme feels too monotonous. And then we get these quotes at the end:
"All war is deception."
-Sun Tzu
"Take away love and Earth is a tomb."
-Robert Browning
"All war is deception."
-Sun Tzu
"Take away love and Earth is a tomb."
-Robert Browning
December 13, 2019
Awesome! Great fun dark art by sorrentino and a good story.
March 3, 2018
I’m a super vamp fan(g)girl so when I saw this I saw this I was so excited. I was hoping for a new ‘American Vampire’ but Sadly that initial ‘Wohoo’ was the only excitement this series brought me.
Issues 0 and 1 was sort of intriguing and there was so many possibilities to expand the characters....but they just didn’t. [minor spoiler] They launched straight into a war but none of the parties hold any sympathies so I just didn’t care.
There is just nothing to the story.
The characters are pretty and shallow and not interesting. The artwork is lovely but not enough to hold my interest in the slightest.
So the Vamp fan(g)irl is a sad panda 😔
Issues 0 and 1 was sort of intriguing and there was so many possibilities to expand the characters....but they just didn’t. [minor spoiler] They launched straight into a war but none of the parties hold any sympathies so I just didn’t care.
There is just nothing to the story.
The characters are pretty and shallow and not interesting. The artwork is lovely but not enough to hold my interest in the slightest.
So the Vamp fan(g)irl is a sad panda 😔
August 10, 2021
This was part of an attempt to read every #1 issue in DC’s New 52 Relaunch.
This lasted 20 issues! What?! Basically Andrew and Mary are vampires. Immortal. I guess they love eachother, but one wants to help mankind (Andrew) and the other wants to harm it, (Mary). I guess Andrew kills other vampires but didn’t kill her. They can also turn into wolves?! I just don’t get this. It’s barely in the DCU save for one blatant reference to it. This feels like it should be a Vertigo title; but I don’t know why they didn’t do that. I guess if you’re a hardcore vampire fan; give this a look. But I, will not.
This lasted 20 issues! What?! Basically Andrew and Mary are vampires. Immortal. I guess they love eachother, but one wants to help mankind (Andrew) and the other wants to harm it, (Mary). I guess Andrew kills other vampires but didn’t kill her. They can also turn into wolves?! I just don’t get this. It’s barely in the DCU save for one blatant reference to it. This feels like it should be a Vertigo title; but I don’t know why they didn’t do that. I guess if you’re a hardcore vampire fan; give this a look. But I, will not.
August 25, 2016
داستانش که درست دستم نیومد ولی عکساش خیلی قشنگ بود
November 30, 2020
Takové něco vampírske ze světa DC. Moc mi to z počátku nevedelo, ale posledních pár dílu byla krvavá jízda apokalypsy.
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