Bite Me!

As our good buddy Walt will tell you, Vampires are all the rage. There is hardly a week that goes by where he doesn’t tell me about some writer who has turned blood-sucking into high art and good-old fun. From Twilight, to Moonlight, to L.A. Banks, to J.R. Ward, and of course there’s Blade. Anyway, last week, when I was in my local comic shop (A Timeless Journey), I came across a giveaway comicbook of TrueBlood the new HBO series about, well Vampires.

From the (well-produced) Top Cow comicbook, I learned that the premise of the series is about how the creation of a synthetic blood substitute that replicates all of the nutrients that are found in real blood has quite literally changed the way the vampire community deals with the human world, because now vampires no longer have to hunt for food. With humans no longer food, a shaky truce evolves between the two species, and, well, that totally changes the dynamic between the two races.

I’m not so much steeped in this mythology, but I do understand the dynamic, and from what I saw in the comic, the series looks interest. Still, as I don’t subscribe to HBO, I just may follow along with the comic series (which I believe will be forthcoming). Still, I’m more about Werewülves than Vampyres, but I’m an equal opportunity sort of guy, so — what the heck — check it out.

If Vampires are your thing, than any of the links above can take you to a dark place full of bloodlust, if — however, you want to take a different type of walk on the wild side, you just might want to take a peek at Psychosis! which is an illustrated horor anthology published by Guild Works Productions.

Psychosis! is an on-going 56-page, B&W, horror anthology. The main theme each issue involves a number of relevant looks at the fears that affect men and women in the 21st Century. Contributors to the title come from a number of different backgrounds and are a true mix of established talent along with enthusiastic younger talent cutting their teeth on powerful themes. Each issue features five eight-page stories, prose stories. Welcome to our world — welcome to our fears…

Somewhere between Madness and Mayhem lies…Psychosis!

The Perfessor