A strange new Marvel series previewed at Newsarama this week: Anita Blake, Vampire Hunter in Guilty Pleasures.
Its a adaptation of the horror/erotica/literary-porn series of novels by Laurell K. Hamilton. Not being a horny goth chick I've never heard of this series, but it sounds intriguing and apparently has a huge built-in fan-base.
The art by Brett Booth is a huge draw for me - I like his detailed cartoony style and have always appreciated the way he draws sexy male characters. Which should come in handy in this book, as the vampire-hunter of the novels - Anita Blake - tends to have alot of sex with vampires and werewolves. In fact that's pretty much all she does in the later novels in the series, which probably accounts for a great deal of its popularity among female fans.
Frankly it sounds like a cheesy mash-up of Anne Rice and Harlequin Romances to me, but I guess I'd have to read one the original novels to make a true assessment. I do like the premise of a society where creepy-crawly supernatural monsters are real and Vampires are a social class fighting for their legal rights in the courts - a bit of an allegory there I can relate to as a gay man wondering if Stephen Harper is about to take away my recently hard-won basic human-right to marry whomever I choose.
In discussing the series Hamilton refers to the biggest selling point of the comic-book version of her novel - getting to see the Vampire wet-dream character visually for the first time:
"Jean Claude is about 200 years old, and is incredibly gorgeous," Hamilton said. "He's a walking, talking fantasy, and has a couple hundred years to practice being really good at that. He's the manager of Guilty Pleasures, which is a vampire strip club where you can also see werewolves and were-leopards and other creatures take off their clothes."
Cool. Vampire strippers! Lets see Anne Rice try to top that!!
It sounds like good cheesy fun, and it tickles me pink that Marvel is going to be publishing a comic series with sexy male stripper-vampires. I wonder if these vamps are as sexually ambiguous as Rice's, or if they're dedicated heterosexual vampire-man-whores?
Interestingly, this series doesn't rate a MAX label, even with all the rending of clothes and undead hetero sex - so I'm guessing the gay content is nil. Oh well, at least I'll get to see Brett Booth drawing sexy vamps and were-hunks with big bulging crotches. Whoo!
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2 comments:
Shut up! Every speech of Lestat's is a perfect poem! I planned out every nuance of my stories! You can't compare my art to some dirty little strip club.
-Anne Rice
Au contraire, my fine fellow. There is gay sex. Jean-Claude and the character, Asher, have a very long and storied sexual past with each other. The deal is that Anita Blake can and does have sex with everyone but alas, she has forbidden Jean-Claude and Asher to have at it except in the case of both of them with her. Not fair, I know. Check out Danse Macabre for more gay/bi escapades. It's the best. Screw Lestat....gimme Jean-Claude and Asher any ol' day.
Grannie Vamp Luver
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