Does Andrea Sorrentino know Jae Lee personally? Or will they meet sometime at a con and Sorrentino will have to explain he made a career of imitating Lee?

I, Vampire is not what I was expecting. Oh, there’s some really weak dialogue–but nowhere near as bad as I was expecting from Joshua Hale Fialkov–but it’s not a Twilight comic. It’s vampires out to take over the world, zombie-style. I can’t imagine how it fits into the DC universe. You’d think the JLA would notice a whole city of blood-drained corpses.

But DC being stupid about their new universe continuity, four weeks in, is nothing new.

Instead, I, Vampire pretty much works. It’s unpleasant, but because it’s about the end of the world, not because of Fialkov’s dialogue.

And Sorrentino packages a nice visual experience. It’s post-apocalyptic while still being pre-full apocalypse.

It’s nearly engaging.

CREDITS

Tainted Love; writer, Joshua Hale Fialkov; artist, Andrea Sorrentino; colorist, Marcelo Maiolo; letterer, Pat Brosseau; editors, Wil Moss and Matt Idelson; publisher, DC Comics.