RAGE with writer Christopher Priest

dynamite preparing for a brand new collection with Christopher Priest lead the cost. Vampirella/Dracula: Rage is predicted to hit shops this summer season and can function Christian Rosado on artwork.

Learn the writer’s particulars under:

Vampirella/Dracula: Unholy chronicled the advanced and actually cursed relationship between the alien vampire and her late lover Matt Ecsed, regarded as a service of the legendary Dracula virus. It turned out that the true Dracula was there all alongside, however that did not cease Vampi and Matt’s sad marriage. Readers then adopted a pregnant Vampirella by way of First yr, returning to key early recollections as Priest delved into his origins like by no means earlier than. Sadly, issues took a darkish flip…

A bunch of just about faceless cultists have stolen Vampirella’s child. Completely wracked with inconsolable grief and unquenchable rage, Vampirella hunts down every of them internationally and refuses them no mercy as she brutally calls for her motherly vengeance. Alongside the way in which, she disrupts political and financial alliances and unravels the worldwide internet of the infant’s actual father, Dracula himself.

“On the nice danger of indulging in a really time-worn trope, this will likely be a Vampirella we have by no means seen earlier than,” Priest mentioned. “Created to atone for her mom’s heinous acts, Vampirella’s nature is to destroy evil and shield innocence. This collection will discover her totally consumed by grief. Quite than telling the story from her perspective, in Rage, Vampirella is the shark, the terrifying menace that lurks within the darkness ready to strike, whereas, in probably the most unlikely twist of all, it is Dracula who tries to avoid wasting him from getting so misplaced within the darkness that she finally ends up as eternally cursed as he. It is going to be a really totally different tackle the Vampirella character and an actual problem for me.

Extra on the collection:

The tables are turned this time round, because the Vampire Lord is now looking Vampirella in an effort to avoid wasting her… from herself. She should not grow to be like him, consumed by rage and darkness. This collection presents a grotesque twist on conference, portraying the beloved 50-plus-year-old vigilante as a vicious villain stalking her prey and utterly lifting the restraints on her powers. Dracula additionally confronts Victory as a sort of new-age Renfield, as soon as Vampirella’s closest good friend and now in possession of a hoop granting him Vampi-like talents. This duo will observe the bloody path of the vampire earlier than she consumes all the things in her path, together with herself.

Priest takes a distinct method to this episode of Vampi. Some points will likely be introduced as an anthology of types, specializing in a brand new member of the mysterious cult answerable for the disappearance and presumed loss of life of Vampirella’s baby. “Readers will get to know these various individuals of their on a regular basis lives, thrilling or mundane, however relatable, till they as soon as once more cross paths with an out-of-control Drakulonian on a mission of revenge.”

The primary subject options covers of Lucio Parrillo, Celina, Mike Krome, Jay Anacleto, cosplayer Rachel Hollonand one by Priest’s frequent Vampi collaborator Ergun Gunduz.

Vampirella/Dracula: Rage is a daring new collection of occasions, serving as bookends to Vampirella/Dracula: Unholy and the speaker Vampirella: first yr to finish the saga with the Prince of Darkness…for now. This important collection will arrange a radical change of route for the daughter of Drakulon.

The commerce paperback version of the set Vampirella: first yr The collection will even be launched in August, with followers in a position to pre-order it alongside the brand new collection.

Vampirella/Dracula: Rage #1 will likely be launched in August 2023 and will likely be accessible for pre-order in June. It’ll even be accessible for buy by particular person prospects by way of digital platforms courtesy of Comixology, Kindle, iBooks, Google Play, Dynamite Digital, ComicsPlus, and extra.