Vampirella Goes Dark and ArmagedDON with Sniegoski And Baal
There’s a new Vampirella book coming out and the preview pages released by Dynamite Entertainment look absolutely awesome!
Dynamite Entertainment is to be commended for keeping Vampirella in print for 15 years. The company acquired the rights to Vampirella from Harris Comics in March 2010. Since then, Dynamite has published several different Vampirella series. Some fans will say the series is hit or miss. Personally, I have not always been happy with the art, but Dynamite has taken Vampirella down some interesting roads over the years, and fans are still reading the books. There is certainly some interest in this new series, and the limited information provided by Dynamite so far has certainly whetted fans’ appetite.
Vampirella: Armageddon appears to be a follow-up story to Vampirella Strikes published in 2022. The synopsis released by Dynamite goes like this, “In a post-apocalyptic world stands Sepulcher City, a haven for humanity’s survivors, as well as for beings of the supernatural. As in any great metropolis the threat of evil looms, but in Sepulcher there is a difference. Vampirella calls this city her home and will do whatever it takes to protect its residents from the encroaching darkness. As a new age private investigator set up in the Menagerie, an area of the city designated for the more monstrous inhabitants, Vampirella and her newfound werewolf partner Dagwood think they are prepared for anything that might come their way.
They’re wrong!
When busloads of immigrants coming to walled city to make Sepulcher their home go missing, the raven-haired anti-heroine will have to find out how it connects to a decision from her past, and how it’s all linked to a turbulent war being waged in the depths of Hell.”
A post-apocalyptic city threatened to be engulfed by darkness; Vampirella as a new age private eye; a werewolf assistant named Dagwood… It all sounds very promising, and the sample art released by Dynamite only convinces me further that this is going to be a great series; the few black & white pages drawn by Kewber Baal show Vampirella at her best. There is a strong cinematic feel to the panels. I also get strong Dresden Files (Jim Butcher’s urban fantasy series) and the Hollows (Kim Harrison’s urban fantasy series) vibes from this synopsis, which is a great thing. Vampirella looks great. The art stands in stark contrast with some previous Vampirella series where the art looked more like something out of an Archie comic. This is a dark tale mixing post-apocalyptic urban fantasy with classic horror and supernatural elements. There is much promise in both the story and the art of this book, and I can’t wait for it to hit the comic book stores.
Baal is no stranger to Vampirella (Vengeance of Vampirella), and Tom Sniegoski is arguably the most prolific writer in Vampirella’s history with Dynamite.
As is customary for Dynamite, a number of variant covers will be published for this first issue. The art of Francesco Mattina, Lesley “Leirix” Li, Mark Spears and Joseph Michael Linsner will be featured on the various covers. There will also be a cover featuring well-known cosplayer Rachel Hollon.
I’m not too keen on buying multiple covers, but in this case, I might make an exception.
Vampirella: Armageddon #1 is slated for release in July 2025.
About the Author
Jules-Pierre Malartre Jules-Pierre Malartre currently lives in L’Île-Perrot, a small island west of Montreal (Quebec), which is as close to the Great White North that he will ever dare go, but still cold enough to save him from big-ass spiders, alien abductions, undead dinosaurs and tourists who find his French accent charming. In 2005, he quit a promising aerospace engineering career to go into freelance writing, which was a very, very bad idea according to his mother. Since then, he has become considerably poorer, but he has grown much happier. Along the way, he adopted cats—lots of cats! When he is not writing technical manuals, newspaper articles, press releases or blogs on anything from comic books to yoga, he is busy working on his first novel, a semi-autobiographical fictional account of his life that dares to ask the question, “where did God go wrong with me anyway?” His first short story, “The Rest Was Easy,” was published by the online literary magazine Amarillo Bay in 2013. The five people who read it liked it. He’s well aware that it took him over a decade to publish another one, so he’d really appreciate it if you'd cut him some slack about it! He loves coffee, cats and reading, mostly because those three things go very well together.
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