Hot off the success of the shared-world vampire prose
anthology, V-Wars, IDW and New York Times best-selling and multiple Bram Stoker
award-winning horror author, Jonathan Maberry conspire once again to continue
the battle that rages between humans and vampires in the all-new ongoing comic
book series coming this May.
V-Wars is set in a world transformed by a global pandemic
caused by a millennial-old virus that, once triggered, affects individuals
differently depending on their DNA. The
result is vampires as unique as their cultures and a response from those
unaffected humans like never seen before.
“The vampires people used to believe in weren’t charming
romantic antiheroes. They were monsters,” says writer Maberry. “Each culture
had their own legends, and each of these vampires was completely different from
the others; and all of them were different from the vampires in pop-culture. We
went directly to the source: the myths and legends of vampires around the world
and throughout history. Old-school, scary, and complicated.”
The ongoing V-Wars series will kick off in May on Free
Comic Book Day 2014 with the first two issues of V-Wars. V-Wars #0 will be available for free at
participating comic book retailers and introduces a world caught in the early
throes of the fast spreading Vampire Wars as seen through the eyes of a
folklore scholar, Luther Swann. It
boasts a cover by the incomparable Kevin Eastman (Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles)
and is not to be missed. V-Wars #1 will
be available the same day for standard price and highlights an event that takes
the Vampire Wars to fever pitch and makes it bloodier than ever.
V-Wars will make the leap to comics with the help of
artist Alan Robinson (Mars Attacks, KISS: Solo) and colorist Jay Fotos (Locke
& Key). Together they flesh out this
world in a vivid and frightening way.
IDW re-invented the vampire genre once before with 30
Days of Night…and we are doing it again with V-Wars! The future of vampires is
here!