As you can see by the book posts I do every month on new vampire releases, vampires appear to be author’s favorite subject to write about – does that mean vampires have been done to death? Well Andrew Foley thinks so, which is why he created Done to Death, a graphic novel about an editor turned serial killer who hunts down anyone dumb enough to fill her in-box with terrible vampire manuscripts and a moody vampire bent on slaughtering writers who misrepresent his kind. The answer to the overload of vampire literature – kill the writers.
Here’s the official description:
“Fed up with receiving poorly written Twilight knockoffs, editor Shannon Wade did what any reasonable person would: she started killing the worst of the would-be authors sending them to her. Meanwhile, Andy, a stuttering, overweight vampire has targeted those who portray vampires in a light he deems unrealistic. Both Shannon and Andy are killing their way toward the woman each holds responsible for their plight: Shelley DeMornay, author of a series of incredibly popular vampire romance novels. Not exactly novel but terribly graphic, Done To Death follows Andy and Shannon’s paths towards a collision as darkly funny as it is ridiculously violent.”
Here’s a look at the blood-tacular cover:
Done to Death will be released by IDW Publishing on September 26. You can pick it up HERE.
As much as I love me a good vampire book, I think Done to Death sounds fan-fucking-tastic! I admit, reading that description made me smile. I’ve lost count of all the god-awful, painfully cliché and blah vampire novels I have read over the years. Sigh. One of the bad things about self-publishing is they have no one honestly telling them they are terrible (not that all self-published authors are bad, just the majority).
Done to Death if sure to be a comic that many can relate to and enjoy, I can’t wait to pick this one up. What do you guys think?
– Moonlight
This sounds pretty funny, but Lost Boys: The Thirst and Supernatural (Live Free Or Twi Hard) kind of got there first. Will I pick this up? Yeah, probably.
These constitute the final phase of the pop culture trend cycle: first are the trendmakers (Twilight, True Blood), then the bandwagoneers (Vampire Diaries, The Gates), then the parodies (True Mud, Vampires Suck, My Babysitter’s A Vampire), and finally the deconstructions and meta treatments commenting on the production of vampire fiction itself. So is the most recent vampire wave that began half a decade ago on the way out? Probably. But since vampires have been so popular for two centuries, the next wave will start even before this one is gone.
Vampires… yawn… time to invent some new monsters, surely?