The Vampire Radu returns in an all-new story in Action Lab
Comics’ Full Moon Presents: Subspecies.
Taking place right after the events of the cult favorite Full Moon
Entertainment franchise Subspecies, this new series finds Michelle (a former college
student whose friends had all been killed in the films and herself turned into
a vampire by Radu) working as a nighttime nurse in a hospital under the name of
Shelly. After having killed Radu four
times, she’s trying to put her life back in order by helping people and living
off the Bloodstone (a stone that can feed her bloodlust so that she doesn’t
have to feed off real people to survive).
Then one night, Radu returns but it’s not quite the Radu she
remembers. It appears that the essence
of Radu has been split into five separate vampires who all seek the
Bloodstone. Now Michelle has to find a
way to defeat not one but five of her worse nightmares.
This story is written by Cullen Bunn & Jimmyz with art
by Daniel J. Logan. This story fits more
in line with fans of the films and less about trying to bring on new fans but
for readers familiar with the films this story gets straight into the action
and carnage without a lot of (unnecessary) set up and exposition. Bunn & Jimmyz fills the story with tons
of references to the films and Logan’s style of art is perfect for the story as
he knows how to bring out the menace and savagery of this vampire story.
The graphic novel is filled with extras but the most
interesting are snippets from the actual script used and the steps to the final
artwork. This will interest readers with
interest in the process of how the comic was crafted.
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