And Then I Read: AMERICAN VAMPIRE 2

© Scott Snyder & Stephen King.

The second issue of the new Vertigo vampire series gave me a different impression than the first, as far as the writing goes. In issue 1 I was most impressed with Stephen King's section, here I liked Scott Snyder's better. Snyder is focusing on the young would-be starlet and flapper Pearl in 1925, now dealing with the reality of her own death and reawakening as a vampire. Skinner Sweet, the vampire cowboy, shows up to explain a few things to her in his own...