American Vampire: Anthology #2

American Vampire Anthology

by Scott Snyder, Rafael Albuquerque (Penciller), Steve Orlando

This special features nine amazing stories set in the world of AMERICAN VAMPIRE, with lost tales, new characters, and old favorites. Series creators Scott Snyder and Rafael Albuquerque will be joined by other amazing creators such as Kieron Gillen (The Wicked + Divine), Steve Orlando (MIDNIGHTER), Marguerite Bennett (DC COMICS BOMBSHELLS), Elliot Kalan (The Daily Show with Jon Stewart), Joëlle Jones (Lady Killer), Clay McLeod Chapman (Storage Space), and many more!

Genres: Comics, Horror, Graphic Novels, Graphic Novels Comics, Vampires, Fantasy, Comix

76 pages, Kindle Edition

Published October 12, 2016

About the author

Scott Snyder is the Eisner and Harvey Award winning writer on DC Comics Batman, Swamp Thing, and his original series for Vertigo, American Vampire. He is also the author of the short story collection, Voodoo Heart, published by the Dial Press in 2006. The paperback version was published in the summer of 2007.

Reviews

[Phil · Rating 3 out of 5]

Very average. Some very good mini-stories mixed with some that aren't very good.

[Ill D · Rating 2 out of 5]

While the first micro-story is kinda well done, the rest of these tiny-tales are nothing more than pitiful echoes of the first. Decaying in quality and length, each telling from the first becomes weaker as their distance grows. Frustratingly odd and abrupt endings riddled with a hefty portion of edge(iness) there really isn’t much to show for this so called “anthology.”

[Frédéric · Rating 2 out of 5]

Bland fillers mostly with poor art.

[Lumalcav · Rating 4 out of 5]

We don’t live by their rules. We make our own way. That’s what it means to be like we are. It’s hard, but it’s a powerful kind of hard.

[Quentin Wallace · Rating 4 out of 5]

An anthology graphic novel much like volume one. We see several time periods and several different vampires, some we know and some we don't. The main story is touched upon but not a whole lot of new ground is broken. The various stories are still interesting as the many time periods are always fun to read about. This one seemed more like a book done to keep American Vampire on the shelf until the next series started, but I think things are running slower than expected.

[Robert · Rating 2 out of 5]

Short (very short) side stories from the AV world- -each less than 10 pages. Nothing groundbreaking or world-altering, just...filler. These really should have been included as bonus works at the end of every issue rather than crammed into a single volume.

[Václav · Rating 3 out of 5]

This is mostly to chase the bad aftertaste after the end of Second Cycle. Which vas less than unsatisfying. Most of the stories follow shards of the world after the Second Cycle. And that's better than nothing, but every shard is a really short story and every single one is worst than ones from the first anthology. It is maybe better than the 7th book, but it is half short. Well, AMVAMP didn't have swan's song. It died like a scrabby old vampire, forsaken, rotting and very slowly. And this anthology, these ten short stories - just silvered nails to its coffin.

[Ανδρέας Μιχαηλίδης · Rating 4 out of 5]

This was basically a snippet, a year in (Cycle 2 ended in 2015), to keep people interested until the series restarted in 2017 (which, turns out, will be 2018 but I digress).

Regardless, it's an enjoyable collection, as it provides a small a look at what the decimated VMS and Skinner Sweet are planning in the late 60s (in the aftermath of the Cycle 2 conclusion), what is happening with the vampire population and then affords creative freedom to very interesting writers and artists, in order to use the American Vampire sandbox.

All the guest stories date from the 18th to the 20th century, from Japan to some Slavic country I've never heard of, to (obviously) America and a couple are even interesting as oral storytelling material.

As far as horror goes, it's a light, enjoyable, page-flipping read.

[Scott Waldie · Rating 4 out of 5]

This anthology is quite a bit better than the first, whether the stories really tie into the main plotlines of American Vampire or not. The art is better, the colors more diverse, the choice in tales more interesting and I found the writing and pacing better within the small span of pages that each has been allowed.

[Kurt Lorenz · Rating 4 out of 5]

Opening Shot, ☆☆☆☆☆
Teahouse, ☆☆☆☆☆
Bride, ☆☆☆☆☆
The Bleeding Nun, ☆☆☆
The Cut, ☆☆☆
Traveling Companion, ☆☆☆
When The Cold Wind Blows, ☆☆☆
England's Dreaming, ☆☆☆
Devil's Own Luck, ☆☆☆☆
Brothers Keeper, ☆☆☆☆

[Mik Cope · Rating 4 out of 5]

A much better collection than the first Anthology! The stories were better, told in chronological order with a lot set in the 1960s. They worked well as individual tales but also advanced the mythology. The artwork was good across the board.

[Muskan · Rating 5 out of 5]

This was great. Love the art. Love the stories.

[Néstor Vargas · Rating 2 out of 5]

This one might be the first thing I did not like that much in the whole series. Again, some of the stories had art that was hard for me to follow.

[Major Nelson · Rating 5 out of 5]

I wasn't too hot on this at first but we got Gus and Travis sightings, yay! And then:

"Jesus. Jim? Jim Book?"

Oh fuck yeah. Biased 5 star rating for Jim fucking Book.

[Comics Alternative · Rating 4 out of 5]

http://comicsalternative.com/episode-...