| It's hard to know how successful this
series of magazines really was. For the comic die-hard fans it
must have been a disappointment, as the Vampirella stories themselves
were patchy, mixed-up in continuity, and sometime downright weird.
For the old hands like myself who remember the original Warren magazines
it was originally anexciting concept, and some of the Vampi stories
brought back that old nopstalgia - but what was all that pop culture
doing getting mixed up in there? For the new reader it was
probably a refreshing magazine with exciting and interesting articles
and some kind of crazy vampire girl appearing in graphic stories every
now and then. Looking back on
this series later it seems better, more a moment in time captured for
the fans as well as a number of insightful choices (Sin City was
inspired, AVP [Aliens vs Predator] interesting and right for the
medium). I just wish we'd had more of Vampirella in the kind of
stories that Jose Gonzales illustrated and Archie Goodwin wrote in those
early Warrens, like Death's Dark Angel.
Ah well. |
