muppet1962
03-02-2009, 02:03 PM
Greetings!
Has anyone else been picking up William Harms' Impaler? Volume 2 just launched #1 in December and I believe issue #2 comes out this week. Have you read it, or the previous volume? Thoughts?
Well, I just found the title after browsing around over on Image's site. I was intrigued and ordered the trade right away. I just got it this weekend and read it stright through. I found it a surprisingly emotion-driven book, especially for a "vampire apocalypse" type storyline. The characters were well developed--and I don't know what it is about having the historical Vlad Tepes be the hero figure, but man, it's a very cool concept and it was handled very well. He's essentially a fanatic, but he's fanatical about protecting his people and defeating the demonic hoards--even if the means to that end is a bloody fiasco.
The aspects of magic in the story were also well handled. It definitely wasn't the kind of "Googly! Googly! Googly!" magic I'm used to seeing in mainstream comic universes. The "spells" that the Impaler uses require very specific and very brutal costs.
A really excellent read. I can't recommend it highly enough, particularly in terms of the story. The artwork, I think, is something you will either like or not. But I found the dark renderings quite fitting for this story.
Has anyone else been picking up William Harms' Impaler? Volume 2 just launched #1 in December and I believe issue #2 comes out this week. Have you read it, or the previous volume? Thoughts?
Well, I just found the title after browsing around over on Image's site. I was intrigued and ordered the trade right away. I just got it this weekend and read it stright through. I found it a surprisingly emotion-driven book, especially for a "vampire apocalypse" type storyline. The characters were well developed--and I don't know what it is about having the historical Vlad Tepes be the hero figure, but man, it's a very cool concept and it was handled very well. He's essentially a fanatic, but he's fanatical about protecting his people and defeating the demonic hoards--even if the means to that end is a bloody fiasco.
The aspects of magic in the story were also well handled. It definitely wasn't the kind of "Googly! Googly! Googly!" magic I'm used to seeing in mainstream comic universes. The "spells" that the Impaler uses require very specific and very brutal costs.
A really excellent read. I can't recommend it highly enough, particularly in terms of the story. The artwork, I think, is something you will either like or not. But I found the dark renderings quite fitting for this story.