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The Elizabeth Báthory biopic comic Vanity returns

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Vanity—a gothic tragedy in nine acts—is based on the life of Hungarian Countess Elizabeth Bathory (1560–1614), listed in The Guinness Book of Records as the greatest murderess in the history of mankind. According to legend, she was convinced that drinking and bathing in the blood of young virgin girls would preserve her youth and beauty. However, the historical documents tell us a slightly different yet far more mysterious and sinister story.

Vanity is written by Jurii Kirnev, with art by Natalia Tsarevnikova, colors by Anna Gushchina, an lettering by Joel Rodriguez and Eltorres. It features covers by Joe Bocardo, Abagail Larson and Joseph Schmalke, and an introduction by Mark Rein-Hagen creator of Vampire: The Masquerade.

Vanity #3 continues the interesting historical lesson

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I know absolutely nothing about Elizabeth Bathory. Vanity #3 takes us to the witch burnings of the 15th century and their impact on Elizabeth.

Story: Jurii Kirnev
Art: Natalia Tsarevnikova
Letterer: Joel Rodriguez

Get your copy now! To find a comic shop near you, visit http://www.comicshoplocator.com or call 1-888-comicbook or digitally and online with the links below.

Zeus Comics
Scout Comics

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Weekly Preview! It’s a packed week of comics, graphic novels, and manga!

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There are a lot of comics coming out every week to be covered. Check out some of what we’ll be reviewing and this is only the beginning!

This week’s reviews include:

  • Bomb (Roaring Brook Press)
  • Chicken Devils #2 (AfterShock)
  • Fear of a Red Planet #2 (AfterShock)
  • Jimmy’s Little Bastards #2 (AfterShock)
  • Land of the Dead: Lessons from the Underworld (First Second)
  • Maniac of New York: Don’t Call It a Comeback #1 (AfterShock)
  • Oshi No Ko Vol. 1 (Yen Press)
  • There’s Something Wrong with Patrick Todd #4 (AfterShock)

Already reviewed:

Not shown:

  • Honey Lemon Soda Vol. 1 (Yen Press)
  • Pandora Seven Vol. 1 (Yen Press)
  • Vanity #3 (Scout Comics/Black Caravan)
  • The Walking Dead Deluxe #55 (Image Comics/Skybound)

Yen Press, AfterShock, First Second, Roaring Brook Press provided Graphic Policy with FREE copies for review

Graphic Policy’s Top Comic Picks this Week!

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GCPD: Blue Wall #4

Wednesdays (and Tuesdays) are new comic book day! Each week hundreds of comics are released, and that can be pretty daunting to go over and choose what to buy. That’s where we come in

Each week our contributors choose what they can’t wait to read this week or just sounds interesting. In other words, this is what we’re looking forward to and think you should be taking a look at!

Find out what folks think below, and what comics you should be looking out for this week.

Barbaric: Hell to Pay #1 (Vault Comics) – More Barbaric? Yes please! The series has been amazing off the rails fantasy.

Bomb (Roaring Brook Press) – The story of the development of the nuclear bomb.

Chicken Devils #2 (AfterShock) – A gang is now pissed about the lies our favorite fast food restaurant has been telling. More bodies will pile up in what’s sure to be insane violence!

GCPD: Blue Wall #4 (DC Comics) – The series has been amazing showing the gray and difficulty of being a part of the GCPD.

I Hate Fairyland #3 (Image Comics) – The series has been the full of the over the top violence we’ve been expecting and loved. Here’s hoping it keeps up its balance of insanity.

Immortal Sergeant #1 (Image Comics) – On the eve of his unwelcome retirement, Jim Sargent (aka “Sarge”) a grizzled, old-school detective, catches a break on a murder case that’s haunted him for decades.

Maniac of New York: Don’t Call It a Comeback #1 (AfterShock) – The previous two volumes have been amazing with their riff on classic slasher horror.

Vanity #3 (Scout Comics/Black Caravan) – The true story about Elizabeth Bathory, the Blood Countess. This one’s focused on the legendary witch hunts of 15th century Europe and their impact on Bathory.

White Savior #1 (Dark Horse Comics) – it’s up to Japanese-American teacher Todd Parker to warn the good people of Inoki of Nathan Garin’s true nature before he causes the very death and destruction they are counting on him to avert!

Review: Vanity #2

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I know absolutely nothing about Elizabeth Bathory. Vanity #2 explores her teen years as we see her assert herself a bit more.

Story: Jurii Kirnev
Art: Natalia Tsarevnikova
Letterer: Joel Rodriguez

Get your copy now! To find a comic shop near you, visit http://www.comicshoplocator.com or call 1-888-comicbook or digitally and online with the links below.

Zeus Comics
Scout Comics
Amazon

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Graphic Policy’s Top Comic Picks this Week!

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Metal Society #5

Wednesdays (and Tuesdays) are new comic book day! Each week hundreds of comics are released, and that can be pretty daunting to go over and choose what to buy. That’s where we come in

Each week our contributors choose what they can’t wait to read this week or just sounds interesting. In other words, this is what we’re looking forward to and think you should be taking a look at!

Find out what folks think below, and what comics you should be looking out for this week.

007 #2 (Dynamite) – The first issue delivered a solid take on James Bond that felt like the start to a film. We’re excited to check out the new villain.

Alien #1 (Marvel) – A new volume begins and this one begins to focus on a small colony of synths.

All-Out Avengers #1 (Marvel) – A new Avengers series? We’re intrigued to see where this goes.

Antioch #1 (Image Comics) – Spinning out of Frontiersman, a king attempting to stop man from killing the planet finds himself in a superhuman prison.

Batman: Dear Detective #1 (DC Comics) – Stringing together the amazing art of Lee Bermejo into a narrative.

Everyday Hero Machine Boy (Skybound/Image Comics) – We got a tease of the series already but it feels like a great wholesome robot trying to be a superhero story full of smiles and feels.

Golden Rage #2 (Image Comics) – Older women are thrown on an island where they battle it out! The first issue was great and we’re excited for more!

Highball #1 (AHOY Comics) – The best shot in the galaxy can only hit the target when he’s dead drunk. Sounds like it has potential.

Kali (Dark Horse Comics) – Stabbed in the back, poisoned, and left for dead by her own biker gang; Kali sets off on a one-way road of vengeance across a war-torn desert battlefield. Sounds like our kind of story.

Last Line #1 (AfterShock) – A driver on the tube swears a man was pushed in front of her train but the video and witnesses says otherwise.

The Lost Gardens #1 (Rabbit Hole Studios) – Defects in his technology implants sends a man spiraling downward by the economic forces to be.

Metal Society #5 (Image Comics) – The final issue!? Who will win in this MMA battle between man and machine?

Mind MGMT: Bootleg #3 (Dark Horse Comics) – The series continues to be the amazing twisted mind trip we expected and loved.

New Rat City #1 (Scout Comics) – Pests run rampant across the city in the year 2083 after years of floods and infrastructure mismanagement.

Shock Shop #1 (Dark Horse Comics) – A new horror story from Cullen Bunn? Yeah, we’re in. You can read our early review.

Survivor: Aron’s Story (Graphic History Publishing) – The life of Aron and his survival under Nazi occupation and the history of Jewish Disapora.

Vanity #2 (Black Caravan/Scout Comics) – The second chapter in the biopic of the legendary Blood Countess Elizabeth Bathory.

Weekly Preview! 2 from AfterShock, the return of Vanity, Improve, and Unretouchable

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There are a lot of comics coming out this week to be covered. Check out some of what we’ll be reviewing and this is only the beginning!

This week’s reviews include:

  • Improv: How I Discovered Improv and Conquered Social Anxiety (First Second)
  • Last Line #1 (AfterShock)
  • Unretouchable (Graphic Universe)
  • Vanity #2 (Scout Comics/Black Caravan)
  • The Vineyard #2 (AfterShock)

AfterShock, First Second, and Graphic Universe provided Graphic Policy with FREE copies for review

Review: Vanity #1

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I know absolutely nothing about Elizabeth Bathory. Going into Vanity #1, I didn’t know it was based on a true story at all. After reading a solid introduction and the comic, I immediately dove into searches to find out more and holy crap. Blood Countess Elizabeth Bathory was accused of killing hundreds of women and children. Was it a witch hunt? Was she the inspiration for Dracula? Vanity #1 looks to explore the story of Bathory and the legend that she created.

Story: Jurii Kirnev
Art: Natalia Tsarevnikova
Letterer: Joel Rodriguez

Get your copy now! To find a comic shop near you, visit http://www.comicshoplocator.com or call 1-888-comicbook or digitally and online with the links below.

Scout Comics
Amazon

This post contains affiliate links, which means that if you click on one of the product links and make a purchase, we’ll receive a percentage of the sale. Graphic Policy does purchase items from this site. Making purchases through these links helps support the site

Review: Vanity #1

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Vanity #1

I know absolutely nothing about Elizabeth Bathory. Going into Vanity #1, I didn’t know it was based on a true story at all. After reading a solid introduction and the comic, I immediately dove into searches to find out more and holy crap. Blood Countess Elizabeth Bathory was accused of killing hundreds of women and children. Was it a witch hunt? Was she the inspiration for Dracula? Vanity #1 looks to explore the story of Bathory and the legend that she created.

Written by Jurii Kirnev, Vanity #1 begins at the very end. Gravediggers are assigned to relocate her corpse and through them we learn the history of this controversial person. Kirnev takes us through the opening years of her life to about age 12 or so. We get a solid idea of the politics of the land, the struggles of her family, her rather odd for the time outlook at things, and her upbringing. Bathory is painted as an educated woman who also has a bit of a rejection with religion. Her family is desperate for soldiers and must promise Elizabeth for marriage to another family to build up their strength. To her father, Elizabeth is a precious item to be traded away to strengthen the family. To her mother, she’s barely an individual, instead it comes off as a a mother seeing her daughter as a doll to be created prim and proper. There’s right ways and wrong ways to do everything. Elizabeth though seems to reject and question many of those ways.

Thus Kirnev sets up what’s to come laying the groundwork for the horrors of Bathory’s life.

The art is handled by Natalia Tsarevnikova with lettering by Joel Rodriguez. The art is interesting capturing the time but also showing the world from Elizabeth’s perspective. Much of the comic is in first person perspective as we see what Elizabeth sees. In some ways it dehumanizes her as we don’t get to really see her as a person and instead are focused on the world through her eyes. There’s a weird disconnect this way that emphasizes the disconnect by her parents.

Once it clicks that this is all true, Vanity #1 is an interesting debut. Without knowing where it’s going, it feels a bit slow and plodding. Knowing what happens, I want to know what’s next immediately. This is a comic to dive into for historical buffs, fans of vampire stories, or those that just want a really good read and something different than a lot of what’s on shelves.

Story: Jurii Kirnev Art: Natalia Tsarevnikova Letterer: Joel Rodriguez
Story: 8.4 Art: 8.4 Overall: 8.4 Recommendation: Buy

Scout Comics provided Graphic Policy with a FREE copy for review

Purchase: Amazon – TFAW

Graphic Policy’s Top Comic Picks this Week!

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HAKIMS ODYSSEY GN BOOK 02 FROM TURKEY TO GREECE

Wednesdays (and Tuesdays) are new comic book day! Each week hundreds of comics are released, and that can be pretty daunting to go over and choose what to buy. That’s where we come in

Each week our contributors choose what they can’t wait to read this week or just sounds interesting. In other words, this is what we’re looking forward to and think you should be taking a look at!

Find out what folks think below, and what comics you should be looking out for this week.

A Town Called Terror #1 (Image Comics) – A new horror series from Steve Niles and Szymon Kudranski? Yes please!

Break Out #1 (Dark Horse Comics) – Massive cube spaceships from another dimension materialize over cities and routinely abduct teenager to be held in their floating prisons.

Days of Sand (SelfMadeHero) – A tale, inspired by real-life stories of courage and perseverance during the Dust Bowl of 1930s United States, 1937.

Elektra #100 (Marvel) – Ann Nocenti returning to Elektra? Yeah, we’re down with it.

Flashpoint Beyond #0 (DC Comics) – A return to Flashpoint? Yeah, we’re suckers enough for the concept.

Ghost in You: A Reckless Book (Image Comics) – We love the Reckless detective/noir series of graphic novels. A new one always has us excited. If you love the genre, it’s a must.

G.I. Joe: A Real American Hero 40th Anniversary Special (IDW Publishing) – 22 artists do their spin on the classic “silent issue”.

Hakim’s Odyssey Book 2 From Turkey to Greece (Graphic Mundi) – Continuing the true story of a Syrian refugee.

Image 30th Anniversary Anthology (Image Comics) – Image is celebrating 30 years and we want to see what the publisher has in store this year to do so.

Junction (Titan Comics) – When a missing child, Lucas Jones, reappears after an absence of 12 years, the brief moment of joy is clouded by mystery. How is he still 11 years old?

Kaiju Score: Steal From the Gods #1 (AfterShock) – The first volume was so much fun mixing a classic heist story with kaiju, we’re hoping for a repeat.

Life Zero #3 (Ablaze) – An action film with zombies. There’s not much more to it.

The Sandman Universe: Nightmare Country #1 (DC Comics/DC Black Label) – James Tynion IV playing in this sandbox? Hells yes!

The Stretcher Bearers (Dead Reckoning) – Max is in France during the Great War and doesn’t expect to witness the horrors of war he witnesses or build the friendships he does.

Vanity #1 (Scout Comics/Black Caravan) – The legendary Blood Countess Elizabeth Bathory is dead, and gravediggers are assigned to relocate her corpse. But who was she really? Was she a monster or a victim?

Wrong Earth: Fame & Fortune #1 (Ahoy Comics) – Mark Russell taking on this world? Yeah, we’re pumped for the satire and laughs.

X-Men ’92: House of XCII #1 (Marvel) – Return to the classic animated series with a new twist.