When artist Humberto Ramos got famous after doing a terrific 2-year run on DC's Impulse, it was with writer Brian Augustyn. Back then, Ramos has this cartoony style of drawing almost manga-influenced artwork. He has his own visual signatures such as everyone having big feet and the way Impulse thinks (not word balloons but picture balloons) that made many a page literally LOLSo when he joined phase 2 of Image, he created this wonderful title and showed all how far his artwork has improved. For me, personally, out of the entire 24 issue run, I only preferred this first 6 issues before his artwork went too "stylized"
Anyhow, the story is about Alex Elder, a teenager who is having the usual angst issues when he got attacked by a roving band of vampires ruled by a lady who marks her tits with X. I know, I know. However, our boy Alex got picked up by a monkey looking chap named Ekimus and he turns out to be older than everyone's great grandfather potentially a creature stretching back to the days of the Garden of Eden
It is at this point that you know the story is going to be huge and the scope of story telling magnificent. So as Alex starts to learn about his new life as a vampire, events began unfolding around them ... angels, vampires, demons and o-so-much more kept on piling one on top of the other leaving Alex to wonder who is on the real "right" side ... and whether he should ... cave in on the temptation to drink human blood
The artwork here is fantastic ... and Alex's costume from issue 2 onwards for a few issues is funny!
Ratings: (9/10) not a perfect 10 because most of the covers are sadly lacking
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