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Tales of Supernatural Law #4
The Vampire Brat
"The straight-faced adventures of a couple of lawyers practicing in defense of supernatural creatures is more than unique: It is an idea whose time has come. With hysterically funny situations and smart, fluid dialogue, Wolff and Byrd, a really cool team of lawyers, defend vampires, monsters, and creatures from the nether world. And the stories are cunningly set in an ambience of no-kidding realism.
176 pages, Paperback
First published November 15, 2001
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July 16, 2019
I liked this one, but it didn't grab me like the other two I've read. Maybe the Vampire story ran a bit longer and didn't end as well as most of the others. The Hulk one, as well, was good but the pacing wasn't quite there in the same way as others in the series.
August 21, 2017
Some great send ups of a certain Vampire Slayer and a Single Female Lawyer. Also a nice tribute to Herbie Popnecker and the Incredible Hulk.
March 23, 2017
Witty. Archie Comics meets the Addams Family by way of Perry Mason.
May 12, 2022
Wolff and Byrd, the Counselors of the Macabre, tackle their most hair-raising case yet when a teenage vampire hybrid is outed and targeted by a young vampire hunter in training in the halls of his high school. It's a story of Buffy- proportions! Afterward, the lawyers decide to celebrate their firm's success and throw an office party that gets interrupted by a time traveling client from the future. Then Wolff and Byrd explore the Id and Ego when another young client hires the firm after his imaginary friend destroys a large chunk of Manhattan.
Meanwhile, everyone's favorite secretary, Mavis, has her own troubles to deal with. First, her pesky boyfriend Toby asks for Mavis' hand in marriage only to end up being betrothed himself to a spectral bride. Then, Toby decides to up and move to Hollywood while a crush from Mavis' past returns wanting to possibly heat things up. It looks like Mavis has got some choices to make but can she keep up her duties at the law firm while finally figuring out what she wants in love and life?
Batton Lash takes things to the next level. But I'm not so sure if it was the right move...
One of the things I enjoy so much about this series is how it skewers the horror/ sci-fi/ and pop culture genres. I also enjoy how each chapter is full of intertwining storylines but you can read each issue as a self-contained story and not be lost. But the level of soap opera antics involving love triangles, unrequited love, and sappy romances that took over some of the stories just a little too much. Plus, Wolff's sister whose become the firm's new receptionist is too much and I hope they write her off real soon.
Vampire Brat was a little too much Young Lawyers in Love as opposed to a campier version of Dark Shadows. I haven't given up on this series, but I hope that future offerings return back to Supernatural Law's original formula- QUICK!
Meanwhile, everyone's favorite secretary, Mavis, has her own troubles to deal with. First, her pesky boyfriend Toby asks for Mavis' hand in marriage only to end up being betrothed himself to a spectral bride. Then, Toby decides to up and move to Hollywood while a crush from Mavis' past returns wanting to possibly heat things up. It looks like Mavis has got some choices to make but can she keep up her duties at the law firm while finally figuring out what she wants in love and life?
Batton Lash takes things to the next level. But I'm not so sure if it was the right move...
One of the things I enjoy so much about this series is how it skewers the horror/ sci-fi/ and pop culture genres. I also enjoy how each chapter is full of intertwining storylines but you can read each issue as a self-contained story and not be lost. But the level of soap opera antics involving love triangles, unrequited love, and sappy romances that took over some of the stories just a little too much. Plus, Wolff's sister whose become the firm's new receptionist is too much and I hope they write her off real soon.
Vampire Brat was a little too much Young Lawyers in Love as opposed to a campier version of Dark Shadows. I haven't given up on this series, but I hope that future offerings return back to Supernatural Law's original formula- QUICK!
February 5, 2015
So, this graphic novel (if you could call it that) was a pile of shit. The artwork is horrid, the characters are shallow, the plots are atrocious, and the attempts to make jokes (remind me what's funny about eating disorders?) at ancient pop culture are weak and flat.
I could barely make it through this pile of vomit. I kept having to check how many more pages I would have to suffer through and was oftentimes shocked to find there was still more excrement to plow through. I've read bad stuff. A lot of it, in fact. But there comes a time where, occasionally, my patience is tried and pushed to the limits. Sure, it's possible that this schlock just happened to be read on a day where I wasn't in the best of moods, but I'm not giving this trough of horse water any excuses for being vapid and just plain dumb.
Why the hell did you provide a solid introduction to this, Will Eisner? Who was sucking your old man dick to get you to write that this series left readers with 'nagging sympathy for the bizarre clients' in these stories? Were you on bath salts? Did you read the same bologna that I was reading? Most of the time these stories don't even make sense, there's little structure. It's usually just some hackneyed plot that is repeatedly attempting to choke you to death with a single lame, tired joke. For fuck's sakes, I don't care if you're making a reference to Vincent Price (Vincente Preiss? Are you fucking kidding me?). If I was a Nazi, this would be the first book I throw on the burn pile. There. I said it. Shame on you, Will Eisner, for associating with this ass clown.
ALL OF THE NEGATIVE STARS GO TO THIS FETID BOLLOCKS.
I could barely make it through this pile of vomit. I kept having to check how many more pages I would have to suffer through and was oftentimes shocked to find there was still more excrement to plow through. I've read bad stuff. A lot of it, in fact. But there comes a time where, occasionally, my patience is tried and pushed to the limits. Sure, it's possible that this schlock just happened to be read on a day where I wasn't in the best of moods, but I'm not giving this trough of horse water any excuses for being vapid and just plain dumb.
Why the hell did you provide a solid introduction to this, Will Eisner? Who was sucking your old man dick to get you to write that this series left readers with 'nagging sympathy for the bizarre clients' in these stories? Were you on bath salts? Did you read the same bologna that I was reading? Most of the time these stories don't even make sense, there's little structure. It's usually just some hackneyed plot that is repeatedly attempting to choke you to death with a single lame, tired joke. For fuck's sakes, I don't care if you're making a reference to Vincent Price (Vincente Preiss? Are you fucking kidding me?). If I was a Nazi, this would be the first book I throw on the burn pile. There. I said it. Shame on you, Will Eisner, for associating with this ass clown.
ALL OF THE NEGATIVE STARS GO TO THIS FETID BOLLOCKS.
June 12, 2014
Wolff and Byrd, Counselors of the Macabre, take on more clients of the night... including the dysfunctional teen vamp who wants to bring an action against Myrtle the Vampire Hater, and the machinations of the sinister Vicente Preiss.
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