AMERICAN VAMPIRE #12: After Stephen King left this title a while ago, the story has kind of lagged a little bit. It never became unreadable, but at the same time it didn’t have much of an effect on me. And then this issue came screaming down the pike. Skinner Sweet, sadistic gunslinger turned American vampire, is in a nostalgic mood, so he goes to a Wild West Show. Some of the performers are people he used to know in the old days, but they’re aged beyond recognition and sporting origin stories with more lies in ‘em than a penis enlargement commercial. He’s so disappointed by this drivel that he starts to leave when he hears the owner say that one of the performers, Dolly (an ex-sweetheart of Skinner’s), actually turned her beloved in to the law. This is news to Skinner, and he decides to bring the “good ol’ days” back in a rather gruesome way.
In an unrelated note, am I the only one excited about Avatar’s forthcoming CALIGULA? Jesus Christ, I’m so fucking hard my erection’s holding up my gut. Avatar is the ONLY company with the guts to do a book like this. And the commander-in-chief, William Christensen, is smart enough not to give it to someone like Garth Ennis or Warren Ellis. They are the finest writers in the industry, but they would put too much thought and philosophy into it. David Lapham, who has been doing an absolutely hedonistic run on CROSSED, is the perfect choice to write this book. He’s not afraid to get down and dirty with unacceptable amounts of sexual gore, and as far as I can tell, he does it only for the shock of it. Normally, that would turn me off, but Lapham has recently been turning his work into roller coasters of meaningless obscenity. Who else could perfectly write CALIGULA? (And don’t say Gore Vidal. He did a wonderful job, but remember that he was working for Penthouse.) I can’t wait for this one to hit the shelves, and neither should you! I’ll be at C2E2 this year, and I hope the Avatar booth has a preview!
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