Scott Snyder American Vampire, Vol. 3 A Review

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American Vampire, Vol. 3 - by Scott Snyder

Synopsis

Two epic World War II tales in one massive volume!
In the Pacific, Pearl's husband Henry joins a clandestine group on a secret mission to Japan to hunt a new breed of bloodsucker. Meanwhile, Skinner Sweet has plans of his own...
And in Europe, vampire hunters Felicia Book and Cash McCogan go behind enemy lines in Nazi-occupied Romania in search of a rumored vampire cure.
Blood and bullets abound in this new collection from the Eisner Award-winning series!

About The Author - Scott Snyder

An Eisner and Harvey Award winning writer of Batman and also known for Swamp Thing and his original series Vertigo & American Vampire.

American Vampire, Vol. 3

We join the adventure once again with Skinner Sweet in newer adventures and more recent history.

We have the World War 2
We have the Nazi's
We have new species
Checklist is complete
AV - American Vampires


Good follow up book in the AV series, we have Skinner all right and we have two different stories.
The stories have lost some of their zing. The first volume was too much in the superlative which has put the series under strain of expectations. The follow-up volumes have their own stories and are told with lots of zest and the whacky arts continue.
Scott ushers the AV's into the 2nd great war. The characters have been slowly progressing towards current years over the volumes and we have seen the changes in the AV's and their interactions with their surroundings change with time.
The Japanese vampires were an welcome addition to the vampire specie and unique having no faces, completely animal almost like spiders, living to kill, eat, die. The transfer of the bloodline or the turn is also much quicker with the turning people quickly losing perspective and all human consciousness. This was a welcome addition to the story although this seeming inhumanness does not evoke any feelings for them.

Skinner as the narcissistic character that he is, is again up to his antics.

The second story Survival of the Fittest introduces us to a more disciplined vampire line which not surprisingly being from the region is aligned with the Nazi philosophy and has similar grand designs on the regimes of the undead.
What is unsaid is why would a superior creature with imperialistic designs like the said vampires align themselves with the Germans.
Methinks imperialistic designs are never with limits. They would be the rulers of everything not just the undead or rather convert everyone into ......

Ok got off on a philosophical tangent.

Back to the story we have an intro for another vampire species reduced to the last few which are giants and seem to be the most ancient species with humane tendencies.

All in all grand tale and looking forward to the next ones... 


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