Vampirella x Witchblade #1 // Review
The Diavolo Goth Club was a high-end place in Alphabet City. They just opened-up. Now they’re ruined. There’s been a whole lot of death. Lots of social media influences are dead. Nor much ro do now but clean-up. There is, however, the small matter of a multiple homicide to be solved. Detective Sara Pezzini is on the scene. And there's a good chance that it's something more than just a mass overdose of fentanyl. It’s something much worse in Vampirella x Witchblade #1. Writer Erica Schultz delivers a one-shot supernatural horror mystery with artist Valentina Pinti and Sina Mandrake.
The Witchblade is alerting Sara to something more than just the average mass homicide. There’s something supernatural at work and it’s unlike anything else that she’s ever had to deal with before. If she’s going to be able to handle it, she’s going to have to do so with the aid of someone with considerably more experience...someone who might have debuted on the comics page decades before her in a completely different era of comic books. SHe’s going to need the help of a vampire from off-world who has handled this sort of thing before...
Erica Schultz is always a fun writer to hang out with on the comics page. With this particular one shot, she is delivering a very concise story that follows a very familiar plot art without feeling boring. It may be the type of thing that's been explored 1 million times before. Schultz manages to make it feel new and interesting. Of the interaction between the two beloved whore, heroines swiftly takes to the page in a way that follows old tropes while engaging in something new. The story of swiftly sweeps across the page with Grace and poise before coming to its inevitable conclusion.
Pinti and Mandrake swiftly engaged the story. Everything seems to be rolling across the page in a very deaf way that packs a lot of punch without getting too bogged down in detail. But to central title characters are really the center of most of the story. So most of the action that takes place is just centered around them. We don't really get a ful look at the surrounding atmosphere of the Gulf nightclub in question. However, that's not really all that necessary. The conflict in the center of the story is really the heart of everything.
Though they are distinct different properties from distinctly different companies, it would be really cool to have a regular series with these two teaming up. It would appear as though they probably have a lot of work than each other. And it would be really cool to see and interaction between Schultz and a regular. Witchblade writer Marguerite Bennett as they are writing styles seem very compatible. If nothing else, it would be kind of cold to see them inhabit the same universe. Or at least something that's kind of compatible where they could occasionally cross over once a year or something like that. This is a lot of fun.
