American Vampire # 3 May 2010 "Blood Vengeance" pg 29 Pencils, inks and wash on DC Vertigo board Pencils & Inks: Rafael Albuquerque Writer: Scott Snyder (Signed bottom center) Writer: Stephen King
Will Bunting continues his strange tale of Skinner Sweet. The notorious outlaw turned vampire begins his revenge in Lakeview, Colorado before challenging his old enemy, James Book, to a showdown at the Bakersfield Mines. Meanwhile, Bram Percy is threatened by the new breed of vampire and hires Skinner Sweet's old gang to eliminate their former leader.
Chronicling the history of a new breed of vampire, American Vampire is a fresh look at an old monster, a generational epic showcasing the bloodlust that lay hidden beneath America’s most distinctive eras.
Like most good stories, it all starts with a question: What if vampires, like all species, evolved? What if, occasionally across generations, a vampire bites someone and creates a new kind of creature—a vampire that takes its strengths and weaknesses—not just from its predecessors, but its environment. So when crusty old Europeans come to the American Old West and turn a thoroughly corrupt gunslinger named Skinner Sweet into even more of a monster, he becomes something entirely new: a new breed of vampire immune to sunlight, one that hates every last one of his aristocratic European ancestors.
Follow this dark symbol of the New World as he moves through American history’s most distinctive eras—1880s Old West, 1930s Las Vegas, World War II and more. But as Skinner’s war with his predecessors inspires a mysterious society to rise and fight them both, his most upsetting decision might be the first person he chooses to join his vampiric ranks:
A struggling young movie star named Pearl Jones.
The era of the American vampire officially begins as Pearl Jones declares war on the powerful coven of vampires that ended her life, and Skinner Sweet declares war on, well, everyone! And the early days of Skinner Sweet continue in the back-up tale by horror icon Stephen King!
