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Morrison/Millar on Vampirella

11:37 / 28.02.06

I saw this is getting released this week and after I re-glued the top of my head I had to ask the question: is it any good? By "good" I mean the opposite of "bad" and by "bad" I mean, boring.

11:51 / 28.02.06

by that criterion, yes, 'boring' isn't a good word for it, though perhaps neither, in usual parlance, would 'good' be.

14:31 / 28.02.06

I remember reading/skimming these in the store and they seemed mediocre at best. Not that Vampirella is a character you're going to find brilliant stories about, anyway.

19:24 / 28.02.06

I kinda liked the Millar/Morrison stuff, but Millar by himself doing Vampirella was... I think it was the art ruined it for me more than the writing. Maybe. Governmental skirts riding up perpetually and a plethora of crotch shots do not make really inane and boring art all that much more interesting, if at all. The Morrison/Millar stuff had, to memory, Amanda Conner art and was just a bit more fun. If Vampirella stories aren't kinda goofily energetic,there's not a whole lot of point to them. "These strange visitors from another world are full of water!" fun, I mean. You have to appreciate the time and effort that went into figuring out all the cheesy little combat and philosophy details of those nuns in red rubber. I mean, that's the sort of time and effort most of us don't have to spare for that sort of thing, and I hope they were all well paid for it.
You know what I liked? Warren Ellis doing Vampirella. And Alan Davis. Leading back to my continual, hopeless dream of Ellis writing a comic to be drawn by Davis. Or the other way 'round.
There's a new monthly out now, isn't there?

20:21 / 28.02.06

Ellis actually wrote Vampirella, with Alan Davis drawing? Was this just one issue, a short story, or merely your dream Vampirella team that has never actually produced a story? I'm confused.

20:26 / 28.02.06

They've both seperately done Vampirella stories. Off the top of my head, Ellis has done at least two minis, one of which was titled something like 'Vampirella Lives', and Davis did a short during the twenty-fifth (?) anniversary period, with a very nice, highly 'little red ridinghood' first page, about Vampi, a baby, and clergy with pitchforks or such. As far as I know, the two have never worked together. But, should.

16:50 / 01.03.06

saw this on the Newsarama boards:

>> from Sequential Tart:

ST: You've written several Vampirella scripts with Mark Millar for Harris. What aspects of the character of Vampirella interest you?

GM: None, really. As a desperately lonely and attractive-but-oddly-dressed young man, I'd spent some guilty, yet thrilling, hours with those beautifully drawn Jose Gonzalez Vampirella comics of the '70s but that's about it. Mark and I befriended editor David Bogart first and then did the stories as a favour to our mate and, in my case as a tip of the hat to solitary summer afternoons when mum and my sister were out and it would be just me, a Yorkie bar and Vampirella. The thing I most like about it is all the really clever, new vampire hunting techniques we made up — most of which were nicked for the Blade movies.