Storyline: Blue Blood / A Kiss in the Dreamhouse
Date: March 19, 2008
Price: $2.99 US
Writer: Joseph Michael Linsner and Eva Hopkins
Artist: Joseph Michael Linsner

Synopsis: Ivory would love to be a vampire. What teenage goth girl wouldn’t? She met one named Esque at a party, but he didn’t look like a “real” vampire. Ivory’s curiosity lands her on the bloody streets of New York where she learns the price of getting too close to your dreams…

Opinion: Linsner’s baaaack! Reading this latest book by Mr. Boobs..err I mean Linsner… himself I felt a slight twinge in the last vestiges of my teenage hormones, groggily reawakening and rising from the fog like the Swamp Thing to throw me into a tumultuous hurricane of moodiness and sexually induced hysteria.

Read the rest of my review after the jump.

What is it with this guy? I mean, I’m not complaining but come on Joe! You’d think after all of these years and REAL women in my life, your artwork would be nothing more than lines and colors anymore. Gah!!!

Oh, right… the review. Heh. Ok, well in case you haven’t figured it out, the art is simply magnificent, Linsner has not skipped a step. The colors are great, and the facial expressions are as always extremely articulate and make the characters pop out. Unlike video games, some comics, Horror B-Movies and porn videos - the cover’s artwork is pretty much exactly the same style as the inside - which is refreshing.

As far as the story goes, Joseph Michael Linsner and Eva Hopkins set up, but the pacing falls a bit flat in this debut issue. The book focuses a bit too much on introducing the main character Ivory and her friend Samson, a slightly overweight intellectual that’s a bit of a 90’s throwback. It’s a bit creepy at first that this teenage high-school girl is getting rides from an older dude who drives a van… but that’s just my cynicism speaking - this is comics people! Besides, after you get a peek into their relationship you see it’s nothing to be suspicious of.

In any case, there is something boiling, and I am certan that by the second issue in May we will definately see this story going somewhere - but I would say for a debut issue it should have pulled a bit more of the story.

Finally - I want to exclaim (!!!) about the price! $2.99 for a thick book written by a big name, with beautiful artwork and quality printing - helluva deal! What sold me on giving this title a chance (I don’t like mini-series(es?)) was the fact that Image wasn’t trying to gouge on the first ‘ish.

Respect Image, respect.

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