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Preview: Vampirella: Year One Trade Paperback

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Vampirella: Year One Trade Paperback

writer: Christopher Priest
artist: Ergün Gündüz, Giovanni Timpano
cover: Ergün Gündüz
FC | 168 pages | Horror | $19.99 | Teen+

Critically acclaimed European artist ERGÜN GÜNDÜZ rejoins legendary writer CHRISTOPHER PRIEST for an expanded reimagining of Forrest J Ackerman’s classic origin story in Vampirella: Year One, collecting all six issues of the original series. With framing sequences set in the present day illustrated by GIOVANNI TIMPANO, the story explores the exotic world of Drakulon, the pressures that caused Vampirella to leave, and her first days on Earth, beginning with the day of the Apollo moon landing in 1969. Lost, alone, unable to speak or read our language, Vampirella makes her first friends (Pantha, Pendragon) and runs afoul of new enemies in this multifaceted period piece that revisits the turbulent world of the original 1970s Warren stories!

Vampirella: Year One Trade Paperback

Preview: Vampirella: Year One #6

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Vampirella: Year One #6

Writer: Christopher Priest
Artists: Ergün Gündüz and Giovani Timpano
Covers: Collette Turner (A), Lucio Parrillo (B), Celina (C), Guillem March (D), Cosplay / Rachel Hollon (E)
32 pages | Horror | $3.99 | Teen+

At Last, Vampirella’s Baby Is Born! Our series looking at unrevealed secrets from Vampirella’s past comes to a head with Vampi, alone and not knowing how to speak any known human language, encountering The Mad God Chaos and discovering Earth has no interstellar capability and her rescue mission was a one-way trip! Spiraling into depression, Vampi is forced to make this strange world her home. Meanwhile, in the present day, Vampi’s pregnancy comes to an unexpected climax! From the people who brought you deadly chemicals in our drinking water, Christopher Priest and Ergun Gunduz!

Vampirella: Year One #6

Around the Tubes

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It’s new comic book day! What are you all excited for? Sound off in the comments. While you wait for shops to open, here’s some comic news and reviews from around the web to start the day.

The Beat – The Indirect Market: Saving the Industry, By Thinking Smaller – What do you all think?

ICv2 – Superhero Comics Are in a Creative Rut. Who, If Anyone, Will Fly to the Rescue? – Are they in a rut? Let us know in the comments!

Reviews

CBR – Batman/Spawn Unplugged #1
Comics Crusaders – Vampirella: Year One #5

Batman/Spawn Unplugged #1

Preview: Vampirella: Year One #3

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Vampirella: Year One #3

Writer: Christopher Priest
Artist: Ergün Gündüz
Covers: Collette Turner (A), Lucio Parrillo (B), Carla Cohen (C), Guillem March (D), Cosplay / Rachel Hollon (E)
32 pages | Horror | $3.99 | Teen+

Once the pampered princess of Drakulon’s ruling class, Vampirella was abandoned as a child in an unforgiving wasteland and subjected to abject poverty and immense hardships while being hunted by ruthless forces loyal to both her vanished mother and those determined to wipe out the House of Lilith. Now, after years on her own, Vampi is joined by a defector from her mother’s regime who trains the teenage princess in the ways of survival…and of dealing death.

Vampirella: Year One #3

Celebrate Jade Hope’s Birthday With a New Gem Mint Exclusive!

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Jade Hope Vampirella

Dynamite and Gem Mint Collectibles have teamed up for an exclusive limited-edition comic featuring the iconic first lady of horror, Vampirella. This new Indiegogo campaign features the new Vampirella: Year One #1 written by the legendary Christopher Priest and drawn by the amazingly talented Ergün Gündüz and Giovanni Timpano. But this version of the much-sought-after comic features an exclusive cover by up-and-coming artist Jade Hope in celebration of her birthday too! Collectors can get their copy right now.

This is the second exclusive cover for the teenaged Jade Hope, whose art previously appeared on the limited-edition cover for Invincible Red Sonja #1. Hope is from South Florida and has been drawing since early childhood, working with both traditional methods and digital, providing pencils, inks, and colors. Her newest work is an homage to legendary Spider-Man artist Mark Bagley and features Vampirella, Draculina, Dracula and more, but is only available through this campaign.

Fans of Vampirella, Dynamite, Gem Mint Collectibles, and the quickly growing fanbase of Jade Hope can pick up the comic in a number of variations to their liking. It’s available with traditional trade dress, a logo-free edition, as well as a version that features just Vampirella. A combo sweetens the deal for completists. While those looking to have a more personalized touch or preserve this gem can pick signed or CGC graded options.

It’s a baby for Vampirella in Vampirella: Year One #6

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Vampirella: Year One #6

Mark the date on your calendars! Dynamite Entertainment has a bright eyed baby vampire to bring into the world this December. Vampirella: Year One #6 is set to feature the first ever appearance of Vampirella’s very own baby!

Vampirella made her debut appearance over 50 years ago, back in 1969’s Vampirella #1. Both her devilish, blonde-haired sister Draculina and her sometimes cousin/sometimes ally Evily the Witch followed the next issue. The Vampi mythos has grown over the years with more character introductions like her mother Lilith, allies Pendragon, Conrad and Adam Van Helsing, Pantha, and many more. Legendary writer Christopher Priest has even introduced a handful of new characters in his continuing acclaimed tenure on the franchise that started by celebrating that 50th anniversary. Now in the finale of his latest chapter, one of the most exciting additions to the cast will make their debut! But is the child a blessing, or curse?

First comes love, then comes marriage, then comes baby in a baby carriage. But in Vampirella’s world, life doesn’t always go according to the fairy tales. Her complicated marriage with Matt Ecsed was motivated in part by a goal of preventing a curse that would resurrect and empower the devious Dracula, king of the vampires. In the epic finale of Vampirella / Dracula: Unholy, the Daughter of Drakulon became a widow, and now carries her late husband’s child. Then in the hotly anticipated Year One, Priest and artist Ergün Gündüz have been reaching back and expanding on Vampi’s earliest days as a rebellious teen on her home planet and what lead her to her adoptive Earth. In moments between these flashbacks, the saga continues with her pregnancy.

Dynamite invites fans to be a part of history and add this major turning point in the tapestry to their collections as Year One concludes with a big bang, before Priest then moves on to the next set of twists and turns in his nearly 50 issue run. But the ultimate question is, just like their departed father before them – is this baby a blessing or a curse for our dear Vampirella?

Preview: Vampirella: Year One #2

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Vampirella: Year One #2

(W) Christopher Priest (A) Ergun Gunduz (CA) Lucio Parrillo
In Shops: Aug 31, 2022
SRP: $3.99

“The History of the World” continues! Having fled the elite underground city of New Asema to hide from Lilith’s enemies, a preteen Vampirella takes refuge on the surface world, which has been ravaged by a drought caused by her mother’s machinations. Taken in by a wealthy aristocrat, Vampi learns compassion for Drakulon’s underclass, which leads to a comical petty theft that brings Vampi into confrontation with her mother’s mysterious Lieutenant, who is certain to expose the child’s secret and ruin Vampi’s one chance to escape her mother’s influence.
All this and the origin of the planet Drakulon and the mysterious alternate reality of Earth known as Arcadia!

Vampirella: Year One #2

Preview: Vampirella: Year One #1

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Vampirella: Year One #1

Writer: Christopher Priest
Artist: Ergün Gündüz and Giovanni Timpano
Covers: Collette Turner (A), Lucio Parrillo (B), Derrick Chew (C), Guillem March (D), Cosplay (E)
32 pages | Horror | $3.99 | Teen+

Following the explosive conclusion to Vampirella/Dracula: Unholy comes the next chapter in Christopher Priest’s Vampirella saga! Wanted for murder, and with every demon, shaman, vampire, whack-job zealot, reporter, and law enforcement officer on Earth hunting for her, Vampirella has taken refuge in an undisclosed location where she questions why she came to our world in the first place.

Vampirella: Year One #1

Christopher Priest Explores Vampirella’s Year One

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In July 2019, the boundary-breaking and acclaimed Christopher Priest kicked off Vampirella’s 50th anniversary celebration. Now, three years later the next chapter begins – by going back to the beginning! Vampirella: Year One debuts this summer.

This limited event series is not only an exploration of the Daughter of Drakulon’s earliest days, but also a follow up to the explosive conclusion of Vampirella / Dracula: Unholy. Our vampiress is now wanted for murder, with every demon, vampire, whack-job zealout, reporter, and law enforcement officer on Earth hunting for her. As she takes refuge hidden away, Vampirella begins to recall and question how and why she came to this planet in the first place.

Artist Giovanni Timpano returns to illustrate the present-set framing sequences. For the core tale, Priest is reunited with Ergün Gündüz after the pair started the whole run back on Free Comic Book Day 2019. Letterer Willie Schubert continues to contribute as well. Together, the creative team is overhauling and expanding the classic origin story from Forrest J. Ackerman and Tom Sutton that originally amounted to just a handful of pages.

Travel to the scenic, exotic sites of Drakulon, and then back in time to 1960s New York City, where Vampi finds herself grappling with depression and intense loneliness as she attempts to build a new life.

Through the series she will meet her first friends like the fan-favorites Pantha and Pendragon, as well as her first enemies. She’ll also be navigating the turn of the decade amidst one of America’s most turbulent periods. Grab your go-go boots, Afro Sheen, and love beads!

A legion of unparalleled artists contribute covers to further solidify the history-making nature of this benchmark saga. Collette Turner is here, adding to her stunning pieces from Priest’s Draculina title. Lucio Parrillo continues his covers. Guillem March returns, as he helped kick this whole Priest era off too. Derrick Chew and Joseph Michael Linsner depict a young Vampirella that fans have rarely ever seen. Rachel Hollon makes history as the first cosplay cover with the white costume. And a limited incentive cover features the jaw-dropping pencils of Kevin Nowlan.

Vampirella: Year One #1 arrives in July.