Flesh and Blood
Monsterverse Entertainment
Publisher/ Kerry Gammill - covers on the Superman books for DC, Power Man and Iron Fist, covers on the Fallen Angels mini, Further Adventures of Indiana Jones, Marvel Fanfare, Marvel Team-Up. OHOTMU entries, Uncanny, etc. Wiki page mentions that he co-created Frog-Man, White Rabbit, and other characters. Storyboard artist, special effects concept artist, character designer on TV shows and feature films like Species II, the Tremors TV series, Virus, Outer Limits, and others.
Written by Robert Tinnell
Illustrated by Neil Vokes
Color by Matt Webb
Who here likes the great Hammer films?
If you have a soft spot for The Vampire Lovers, Lust for a Vampire, Twins of Evil (featuring the disgustingly sexy Collinson twins), any of their many movies featuring horror stalwarts Christopher Lee and Peter Cushing and the ravishing and recently-departed Ingrid Pitt, then you must get your claws on FLESH AND BLOOD Book 1 from Monsterverse Entertainment. 104 pages (roughly), full color, squarebound, Hammer horror inspired monster-mash masterwork.
In the eye and pants-popping opening scene, sexy vampire seductress, Carmilla Karnstein (a name that no doubt rings a bell with Hammer horror fans), is caught in the act of seducing young Laura, daughter of Sir Lawrence Ward-Baker (ding). Her late-night snack rudely interrupted, Carmilla flees to Karnstein Castle where Sir Larry and his friend General Spielsdorf lie in wait. They extinguish the undead life from the beautiful vampire but it isn't enough. The General, whose family has also felt the devastating effects of the vampire plague, concocts a plan to hopefully rid the word of the foul taint of vampirism, but he needs a mind far greater than his own to achieve it, one currently incarcerated in an asylum for the Criminally Insane.
Hmmmmm, who could it be? None other than Baron Frankenstein, himself, lovingly rendered by Neil Vokes in the mold of the late, great Peter Cushing! Vokes hits the nail smack dab on the head, perfectly capturing the physical appearance and more subtle mannerisms of the accomplished actor. It's uncanny! However, the neer-do-wells the General and Ward-Baker paid to spring the Baron, feel the need to snag a little insurance and take a medical student supervising the Baron hostage, as well. A young man named... Abraham Van Helsing (a character, to my eyes, modeled after Horst Janson from Captain Kronos, Vampire Hunter). The group manage to capture a female vampire for the Baron's experiments -- and it all goes relatively well, Frankenstein attempts to synthesize a garlic-based anasthetic/toxin -- until spies placed in the area report the progress to their master...
...the king of the undead, himself, none other than Vlad Dracul, aka Dracula, Lord of the Vampires and his female accomplice, Erzebet!
Can it get any better? Why, yes it can! Ward-Baker seeks the help of his estranged brother, Horst, remember that name? The same name of the actor who played Captain Kronos, the inspiration for the character, by way of Solomon Kane. He's a rough-and-tumble monster hunter who, unknown to everyone but his bespeckled Mole-Man-ish sidekick, had recently been bitten by one of his prey, a creature who, when the wolfsbane blooms and the autumn moon is bright, becomes... a werewolf!
It's a monsterpalooza!
There is a resolution, of sorts, at the end of the 80-some pages, but this is but the first chapter in an ongoing saga.
Monsterverse Entertainment
Publisher/ Kerry Gammill - covers on the Superman books for DC, Power Man and Iron Fist, covers on the Fallen Angels mini, Further Adventures of Indiana Jones, Marvel Fanfare, Marvel Team-Up. OHOTMU entries, Uncanny, etc. Wiki page mentions that he co-created Frog-Man, White Rabbit, and other characters. Storyboard artist, special effects concept artist, character designer on TV shows and feature films like Species II, the Tremors TV series, Virus, Outer Limits, and others.
Written by Robert Tinnell
Illustrated by Neil Vokes
Color by Matt Webb
Who here likes the great Hammer films?
If you have a soft spot for The Vampire Lovers, Lust for a Vampire, Twins of Evil (featuring the disgustingly sexy Collinson twins), any of their many movies featuring horror stalwarts Christopher Lee and Peter Cushing and the ravishing and recently-departed Ingrid Pitt, then you must get your claws on FLESH AND BLOOD Book 1 from Monsterverse Entertainment. 104 pages (roughly), full color, squarebound, Hammer horror inspired monster-mash masterwork.
In the eye and pants-popping opening scene, sexy vampire seductress, Carmilla Karnstein (a name that no doubt rings a bell with Hammer horror fans), is caught in the act of seducing young Laura, daughter of Sir Lawrence Ward-Baker (ding). Her late-night snack rudely interrupted, Carmilla flees to Karnstein Castle where Sir Larry and his friend General Spielsdorf lie in wait. They extinguish the undead life from the beautiful vampire but it isn't enough. The General, whose family has also felt the devastating effects of the vampire plague, concocts a plan to hopefully rid the word of the foul taint of vampirism, but he needs a mind far greater than his own to achieve it, one currently incarcerated in an asylum for the Criminally Insane.
Hmmmmm, who could it be? None other than Baron Frankenstein, himself, lovingly rendered by Neil Vokes in the mold of the late, great Peter Cushing! Vokes hits the nail smack dab on the head, perfectly capturing the physical appearance and more subtle mannerisms of the accomplished actor. It's uncanny! However, the neer-do-wells the General and Ward-Baker paid to spring the Baron, feel the need to snag a little insurance and take a medical student supervising the Baron hostage, as well. A young man named... Abraham Van Helsing (a character, to my eyes, modeled after Horst Janson from Captain Kronos, Vampire Hunter). The group manage to capture a female vampire for the Baron's experiments -- and it all goes relatively well, Frankenstein attempts to synthesize a garlic-based anasthetic/toxin -- until spies placed in the area report the progress to their master...
...the king of the undead, himself, none other than Vlad Dracul, aka Dracula, Lord of the Vampires and his female accomplice, Erzebet!
Can it get any better? Why, yes it can! Ward-Baker seeks the help of his estranged brother, Horst, remember that name? The same name of the actor who played Captain Kronos, the inspiration for the character, by way of Solomon Kane. He's a rough-and-tumble monster hunter who, unknown to everyone but his bespeckled Mole-Man-ish sidekick, had recently been bitten by one of his prey, a creature who, when the wolfsbane blooms and the autumn moon is bright, becomes... a werewolf!
It's a monsterpalooza!
There is a resolution, of sorts, at the end of the 80-some pages, but this is but the first chapter in an ongoing saga.