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A review by madmooney
American Vampire 1976 by Scott Snyder
5.0
*A SPOILER FREE REVIEW THAT IGNORES THE HIATUS*
Hells bells!
I came into this series solely as a fan of King, but stayed and became a fan of Snyder. I am not a fan of westerns, so on paper - I would not have otherwise picked this series up.
I was worried when this series went onto hiatus. Not 100% certain, but I believe it was due to Snyder's DC run occupying all of his time. The worry was two fold: a) the series was cancelled and would never be completed b) if it was completed, it would be done in a very after-the-fact matter (think Winds of Winter). It would be inellegantly rushed, and completed for the sake of being completed.
But this was one of Snyder's 1st storties, and I was happy to see him give it the gravitas that a conclusion deserves.
"It was fundamentally about Pearl and Skinner - a look at American History through the lese of these two different vantage points: one character who is the best of us and one character who's the worst of us. One who wants to be part of something bigger than herself and espouses all of these great American principals and ideals, even if she does not realize it, and one who represents all of our darkest impulses o be big and selfish and greedy - to have your name in lights and make everything about you and create a reality around yourself." (Scott Snyder on the original pitch)
There is also a great deal of history in the series and its finale, both:
a) in how the story is overlain against american events, politics, and its ever changing zeitgeist
b) in how the pasts of our characters is still being peeled back - even in the final issue, to properly render out judgements on them
Snyder is definetly closing up shop in v1976. There is so much circling back to the elements of the earlier stories (expect a lot of "*SEE AMERICAN VAMPIRE - VOLUME XYZ"-editor blocks) There are no wasted plotlines here in this bombastic finale, Snyder is using it all to get us all back on the path he started back in 2010 (or 1880).
Hells bells indeed!
Hells bells!
I came into this series solely as a fan of King, but stayed and became a fan of Snyder. I am not a fan of westerns, so on paper - I would not have otherwise picked this series up.
I was worried when this series went onto hiatus. Not 100% certain, but I believe it was due to Snyder's DC run occupying all of his time. The worry was two fold: a) the series was cancelled and would never be completed b) if it was completed, it would be done in a very after-the-fact matter (think Winds of Winter). It would be inellegantly rushed, and completed for the sake of being completed.
But this was one of Snyder's 1st storties, and I was happy to see him give it the gravitas that a conclusion deserves.
"It was fundamentally about Pearl and Skinner - a look at American History through the lese of these two different vantage points: one character who is the best of us and one character who's the worst of us. One who wants to be part of something bigger than herself and espouses all of these great American principals and ideals, even if she does not realize it, and one who represents all of our darkest impulses o be big and selfish and greedy - to have your name in lights and make everything about you and create a reality around yourself." (Scott Snyder on the original pitch)
There is also a great deal of history in the series and its finale, both:
a) in how the story is overlain against american events, politics, and its ever changing zeitgeist
b) in how the pasts of our characters is still being peeled back - even in the final issue, to properly render out judgements on them
Snyder is definetly closing up shop in v1976. There is so much circling back to the elements of the earlier stories (expect a lot of "*SEE AMERICAN VAMPIRE - VOLUME XYZ"-editor blocks) There are no wasted plotlines here in this bombastic finale, Snyder is using it all to get us all back on the path he started back in 2010 (or 1880).
Hells bells indeed!