One of our featured projects is the iconic Vampirella universe. It tells the story of a vengeful angel of death who comes to Earth, and soon decides to change her way of thinking, vowing never to take a life without a good reason. Vampirella has become the longest-running English-language vampire comic book of all time.
Written By
Christopher Priest
Ella Normandy... Well, nobody calls her Ella anymore and now that her darkest secret is out, Ella Normandy’s mostly referred to by her given name… Vampirella.
A gifted selfless hero who nonetheless struggles to meet rent every month. She’s clever and subversive, with a restless desire to avenge the victimized. She must live with the painful memory that she was created by her mother Lilith as a “substitute” for the daughter she lost, stolen by the demon Belial. Lilith created Vampirella in the image of Draculina, her lost child, a virtual twin, in an effort to lure Belial out of his wandering through time and space.
Vampirella possesses a range of astonishing superpowers: She has incredible tonner-level strength, highly acrobatic maneuverability, sees in total darkness, is veritably ageless, has wolf-like hearing, reads emotions through scent; heals quickly; has a hypnotic stare that can manipulate people’s wills; and last, but not least, she can grow huge bat wings for flight, and even shapeshift, but at great cost of her physical well-being. She’s also playful with a wit as sharp as her fangs, managing to quip on the twisted side in the darkest of situations, perhaps a given from someone who’s been to hell and back (literally), and then some.
Her past is a colorful one, but the horrific crash of Affirm Airlines flight 1969, which killed her best friend and destroyed a good chunk of suburban Los Angeles, was no accident.
This sets the stage for a binge-worthy storyline leveraging a highly expansive universe.
Spanning over 50 years, Vampirella is the centerpiece of a powerful legacy and an ever expanding franchise rooted in the rich lore of vampire mythology, the supernatural, and even the interdimensional. Through the decades, this iconic series has seen a number of incarnations to suit the collective consciousness with a blend of horror, drama, science fiction and fantasy rife with heart and repartee.
Vampirella is a genre-bending boundary breaker beloved by fans everywhere. She has appeared in crossovers with some of the biggest franchises around: Aliens, Catwoman, Army of Darkness, The Dark Powers, Witchblade, Red Sonja, and even Archie Comics– A testament to her vast appeal and amazing versatility!
In July of 2019, for the title’s 50th Anniversary, acclaimed writer Christopher Priest (Black Panther, Deadpool) agreed to helm Vampirella, giving Dynamite Entertainment and its iconic character its most successful run ever, exceeding 130,000 orders for the first issue, and setting an all-time record for publisher Dynamite Entertainment.
Priest’s Vampirella is renown for taking the Vampirella character and universe to new heights as the series continues to gain momentum in popularity as new readers discover Vampirella’s timely storyline.
Christopher Priest holds a special place in comics history as the first full-time African American comics writer/editor, hired by Marvel Comics back in 1979with influential work on Power Man and Iron Fist, Conan The Barbarian, and The Amazing Spider-Man. He then moved to DC Comics for a spell, penning titles like Green Lantern, The Ray, Hawkman, Deathstroke, and Steel.
One of the most exciting additions to the Vampirella universe is called, Vampiverse.
Its 2021 launch imagines an infinite number of universes each with their own Vampirella born to protect it. A different Vampirella for every thread-for every kind of story-across the Fabric of time and space. A Vampirella of every conceivable notion born to protect her particular reality . . . but now something-someone-is killing them and stealing away their precious life energies and growing in power. It is up to the Vampirella of one of these universes to gather some of her special sisters to stop this growing threat and keep it from destroying the Creator of all things - the Artist - and preventing the unraveling of all reality
After a rousing reponse to last year’s ‘Seduction of the Innocent’ finale in which Vampirella marries an FBI agent who may or may not be the reincarnation of Vlad Dracula, Dynamite launched the hit limited series event from Christopher Priest and Donny Hadiwidjaja, UNHOLY , taking us on a race against time as the newlyweds find they may be the only two standing in the way of a bloody conquest for mankind.
The honeymoon begins in what Vampi scribe Christopher Priest says is “the trippiest love triangle/murder mystery in Dracula history, as well as an all-new vision for the classic character.
”The adventure of several lifetimes begins as Vampirella and new husband Matt journey to Castle Dracula in Transylvania in an attempt to cheat fate by preventing both a high-tech virus and an ancient curse from using Matt’s body to resurrect the deadliest threat the world has ever known.
Defeated at the hands of a jealous lover, the genetic code of the Lord of Evil has been preserved within a deadly virus and passed on through generations to a young boy hunted by zealots seeking to worship him and religious fanatics trying to kill him.
Vampirella comes to his aid, enacting an archaic blood rite which joins her in unholy matrimony to the man who would become Dracula. The newlyweds must now travel to the ancestral lands of Transylvania to discover more about themselves, each other, and the twisted history that has lead them to this point.
Sink your teeth into the thrilling world of Vampirella as she makes her mesmerizing debut on the TV screen in the near future!
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