Press Release
Dynamite Entertainment is having some fun with Vampirella, as she takes on the teenage vampire killer, Fluffy! This entertaining yarn is written by Mark Rahner and drawn by Cezar Razek, with an eye-popping cover from Nick (Wolverine and the X-Men) Bradshaw! Make sure to pick up a copy of Vampirella VS. Fluffy this October!!!
In Vampirella VS. Fluffy, Young, horny high school couples are being horribly mutilated by demonic Puritans. Time for Fluffy to take a study break and kick some supernatural ass! Meanwhile, Fluffy’s pals are wagging their tongues at the hot new substitute teacher – Vampirella. When the iconic vampire and the teenage warrior face off, the clash is more epic than stripes and polka dots! Vampi continues to tear her way through pop-culture vampirism in dark, brutal – and cathartic – satire
“Here’s what I’m doing: putting Vampirella in other people’s pop-culture vampire worlds and having her react to them – and tear the hell out of them,” says writer Mark Rahner!” In Vampirella Annual #2, I sent her to the fictional town of Spoons and put her in the middle of a “Gloaming” con where all hell broke loose and everyone got showered with blood. (That was based on my trip to Forks, Washington, to see how the little town was taken over by the “Twilight” craze. I didn’t get a blood-shower, but you can find “Mark Rahner Confronts Twilight” on YouTube.) The idea was to strike a balance between satire that’s both biting and affectionate – hey, I’m a big horror nerd, too – and some disturbing brutality. Now I’m sending Vampirella to high school, where she crosses paths with one “Fluffy the Vampire Killer.” When the iconic vampire who doesn’t look like someone in a cheap, rubber mask meets a superhumanly perky, acrobatic – vampire-killer, the confrontation is going to result in lots of breakage and pain. But also, how would Vampirella react to the relentless, cute pop-culture quips of Fluffy and her gang? And there’s the problem of hormonal teens getting mutilated by demons in a school with an already-high body-count. Also, Vampirella is in hot-for-teacher dress part of the time. What else could you want? There are different sensibilities and rules – and fans – for all of these different fictional vampire universes. Vampirella is plunging into satirical versions of those settings, as well as sort of peeing on the territory and dominating them. Figuratively speaking.”
“Mark [Rahner] has shown that he is right writer for projects like this as he has the perfect, twisted grasp of pop-culture and what keeps satire from drifting into parody,” adds Dynamite Editor Joe Rybandt. “Fluffy fans, you’ve been warned!”
About Dynamite Entertainment:
DYNAMITE ENTERTAINMENT was founded in 2004 and is home to several best-selling comic book titles and properties, including The Shadow, The Boys, Green Hornet, Vampirella, Warlord of Mars, Bionic Man, Game of Thrones and more!
In addition to their critically-acclaimed titles and best selling comics, Dynamite works with some of the most high profile creators in comics and entertainment, including Alex Ross, John Cassaday, Garth Ennis, Michael Avon Oeming, Mel Rubi, Marc Guggenheim, Stephen Sadowski, Mike Carey, Jim Krueger, Greg Pak, Brett Matthews, Jae Lee, Matt Wagner and a host of up and coming new talent!
DYNAMITE is consistently ranked in the upper tiers of comic book publishers and several of their titles – including Alex Ross and Jim Krueger’s PROJECT SUPERPOWERS – have debuted in the Top Ten lists produced by Diamond Comics Distributors. Several of their titles have also hit The New York Times Best-Sellers list: The Boys, Vampirella Archives, Robert Jordan’s New Spring and Wheel of Time graphic novels. In 2005 Diamond awarded the company a GEM award for Best New Publisher and another GEM in 2006 for Comics Publisher of the Year (under 5%). Dynamite recently won the Diamond Gem Award for Best Publisher Under 4% of market share for 2011! The company has also been nominated for several industry awards, including the prestigious Harvey Award and Eisner Award.
6 Comments
Looks fun, nice cover too. A Buffy crossover would be great if they both acted in character.
Oh, man! This is gonna be good! Especially with the Buffy: The Vampire Slayer show taking everyone by surprise like it has, and if you consider that Vampirella has been doing the “bad girl” thing for way longer than these Janie-come-latelies like Witchblade, this is going to be totally Radical…
…Is what I would have said if it was 1997.
Don’t be that nerd…
Dude, you’re harshing my mellow. Gag me with a spoon.
And don’t mock the 80s, youngster! You don’t remember what it was like! Cindy Lauper was COOL!
Too bad it isn’t an official crossover. If they could secure the rights for a crossover, I’m sure someone could make it plausible enough to work for both properties. Alternate timelines exist in Buffy, so even if they wanted to keep them as different worlds they could.