A double header, first of all American Vampire: Survival of the Fittest, sees Felicia and Cashel team up to seek a vampire cure from inside NAZI Germany in 1941, providing the best story (and best art - Sean Murphy) in the series so far, thus making the battle against Imperial Japanese vampires in 1943, not look that good. It features Pearl, Henry.. and Skinner. Overall 6.5 out of 12.

WWII sees Henry and Pearl involved with the American war effort.Although, Henry get a tad more involved with it than Pearl would like, and ends up storming a beach filled with some very dangerous vampires. <--Oh! And Skinner Sweet. Meanwhile, Cash and Felicia are 007ing in Romania with some Nazi vampires. I sense a budding romance... This was an excellent volume. And it seems to me that this series just gets better and better. I'm crossing my fingers that my enjoyment continues.Definitely recom...

Another great volume of American Vampire! This one is quite epic as it collects two full stories spanning 12 issues.This is the WWII part of the overall storyline. One story in this collection takes place in the Pacific Theater and the other in Nazi Germany. The setting and mythology of World War II meshes perfectly with the addition of vampires.While these two stories have some stand alone elements, they do also carry on the timeline of the American Vampire series overall. There are a few recur...

In the third American Vampire volume, the vampires enter World War II as Henry goes to Taipan and encounters a Japanese breed of vampire and Cash and Book go to Germany to find a cure for vampirism and instead encounter a brigade of Nazi vampires.American Vampire 3 is more of the same greatness that I've come to expect from the American Vampire series. In the first story, Henry and company go to a Japanese island and go up against a breed of Japanese vampire with Skinner Sweet in their midst and...

What could make World War 2 even bloodier? Vampires!There’s essentially two stories told in this volume. The secret group of vampire hunters called Vassels of the Morning Star recruit aging human Henry to leave his vampire wife Pearl to try and root out a nest of bloodsuckers on the island of Taipan as the US tries to take it from the Japanese. Skinner Sweet shows up with his own agenda and as always the brutal vampire creates chaos and bloodshed wherever he goes.In the second story, the Vassels...

Vampire Nazis! Vampire hunter spies! Plus, I loved the graphics. What fun!

I can distill my review of why volume 3 of American Vampire is my favorite in the series down to two words: Nazi vampires. Seriously, does anything else need to be said? Probably not, but just try to shut up my enthusiasm for Snyder's series.In volume 3, we follow our American vampires and those who love to try and stake 'em into World War II. In the first storyline, Pearl's husband, Henry, is enlisted by the Vassals of the Morning Star (a society of vampire hunters who have made an uneasy pact

American Vampire, Vol. 3, consists of three interconnected stories. The first, "Strange Frontier," is a short-story set in the American West of 1919. Skinner Sweet visits a Wild West show (directly patterned after Buffalo Bill Cody's). He's surprised at the inaccuracies of the show, particular the gunfight that led to his "death", and sets things right in typical fashion. Then he confronts an old girlfriend who was responsible for turning him in.The second story, "Ghost War", takes place in the

In professional wrestling, there's this term for a specific kind of character called a "tweener". A tweener is basically a guy who's generally in it for himself. He's not exactly a heel (bad guy) or babyface (good guy), he's more so inbetween. A prime example would be Stone Cold Steve Austin, a guy who exhibits traits of a rule breaker but is beloved by the fans.If we took the American Vampire universe and labeled the characters in relation to their actions, Skinner Sweet would be the definition...

“Deep down, beneath your little housewife act, you’re a bad girl, aren’t you.” - Skinner Sweet Pearl! I guess she brought out the sweet in Skinner Sweet. This volume was action packed with a variety of interesting storylines.Pearl, Henry, and Skinner Sweet in Taipan with the Japanese Army and feral vampires.Felicia Book and Cash McCogan against the Third Reich and vampires.The evolving fates of Gus McCogan and Felicia Book who both had prenatal vampiric issues.And of course, more Skinner Sweet...

Wow! This one had A LOT of action! I mean the other volumes did too but this one was crazy! I guess when Snyder started packing Nazi vamps the story is bound to get more exciting! I really like Pearl, but her relationship with her non vamp husband is getting sadder and sadder. Freaking BITE HIM ALREADY!! It’s like Edward Cullen and Bella Swan all over again! Just bite him and get it over with! Geez!! Anyway...this story is great and I’m so glad I found it!

Volume 3 of this series is absolutely massive - there are 12 or 13 single issues in this one volume (as opposed to the rather anaemic 5-6 issues most graphic novels consist of), and there's a lot to like in these stories. First off, there's a nice prologue story set in 1919, where American vampire Skinner Sweet runs into a carnival showing a bowdlerised version of his life and "death". Needless to say, he reacts rather predictably to all this, but the real entertainment is when he runs into his

Snyder pushes the series forward into World War II with a volume that's truly an embarrassment of riches.The Vassals of the Morning Star have a stake--I'm not ashamed of that joke--in the Allied cause, so, having heard rumors that Taipan is infested with vampires and worried about the fate of the American soldiers due to land there, they embed a small crew of their own to take the bloodsuckers out. Included is the stealthily-recruited Henry, Pearl's husband, who gets some great fleshing-out as h...

Spoiler free review of volumes 1-6, for spoilers visit: https://amanjareads.com/2020/12/16/am...American Vampire is a graphic novel series that claims to bring horror back to the vampire genre. In my opinion, it failed. It's not scary and worst of all it's not that interesting.I'm not a huge vampire fan to begin with. I think the whole genre is completely exhausted. There are a few notable exceptions like my favorite classic Buffy, and modern takes like the incredibly disturbing movie The Transf...

Vol 3 covers #12-18. The time is now 1940's and the Marine's are invading the mythical island of Taipan (in real life Saipan) where a new breed of vampire exists. It seems the Japanese have been doing some experiments (again in the real world- Unit 731, but that was in Manchuria) and creating a nasty strain. I won't say anything else to ruin it..but Skinner Sweet is back and we run into a covert team of Sons of the Vassals who work with Preston to find out what is going on, add to that Skinner S...

This volume had 2 different stories set during WWII. One was set in the Pacific Theater, and the other the European Theater.The story set in the Pacific dealt with a special group of vampire fighting soldiers who find themselves facing a much greater threat than they'd been led to believed. However, one of the soldier's is Pearl's loverboy, so she takes matters into her own hands. Oh, and another of the soldiers? None other than Skinner Sweet, the original American Vampire. We finally get to see...

The best volume yet. Here, the action has been moved to World War II. The first storyline is about Henry going on a vampire hunting mission in the South Pacific, and finding a secret Japanese camp. The second stars Felicia Book and Cash, infiltrating a Nazi castle to try and extract a scientist with a possible cure for vampirism. Especially important for Cash, whose son had been infected as an infant. It is, of course, violent and bloody. There's also more information about the complicated world...

The weakest in the series up til now.So here finally was the chance to see vampires within a larger violent context, a war that makes the undead seem insignificant, and we get an unconvincing 'special mission', which could've taken place in any era.We get the xenomorph vampire, which is more silly than frightening. We get Skinner glomming on to a secret mission, and no one bats an eyelid. Pearl has to be forced into the story.And we get Sean Murphy's even sillier Nazi vampire story. I just don't...

(Buddy read with Vladexander Vladervans)"Throughout history, vampires have secretly walked among us, hunting humans and weilding power from the shadows." Blah, blah, blah.If you've seen one vampire, you've seen them all. At least that's what this vol was trying to convince you is not true, but let's be honest it still is. Snyder really tried to bring in some newer and older unknown vampires, but it just didn't work well. The new vampires in Taipan were some weird cross between the alien from the...