Still here? If anything else, the Mayan myths in the book the Popul Vuh illustrate the enduring power of storytelling. 2,500 years later and people are still paying attention to a far long ago tradition and culture.
So Dark Horse Comics has used 12-21-2012 as an opportunity for you to get just one last comic book read in, all with an appropriate doomsday theme. Which will you pick?
Review by C.J. Bunce
Here’s the prologue of Volume 1 of the graphic novel adaptation of Guillermo del Toro and Chuck Hogan’s novel The Strain
They have always been here. VAMPIRES. In secret and in darkness. WAITING. Now their time has come. In one week, Manhattan will be gone. In one month, the country. In two months–the world.
If you’re like me, you’re tired of vampires. Tired of zombies. Everyone is writing about either zombies or vampires. So if you’re going to read one of the several vampire or zombie books, you’ve got to have a reason. I stumbled into The Strain in a sort of backwards way. I don’t like horror as a general genre but will consider something new if a writer or artist I like is working on the project. Usually cover artists entice readers to a book. In this case, artist E.M. Gist’s grotesque characters in the cover art normally would cause me to move along to something else. This is one reason I skipped Issues #1 to #6 of The Strain when they hit the bookstore shelves. Then I saw the name Mike Huddleston as interior artist and I flipped open the new volume from Dark Horse being released November 14, 2012–Huddleston has created some of the best single pages of art I have seen over the years. And checking out The Strain was a good call. Reminder to self: You can’t judge a (comic) book by its cover(s). Editor’s Note–A few spoilers ahead!
