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Almost certainly one of the promo comics I got when I was opening up my comic store, this ashcan reads a lot like an anime. The action is fast and furious, and there are characters just appearing with no context or anything, and it's quite violent. Again, just like a lot of anime. And I suppose that was the purpose of this reimagining of Vampirella - not to necessarily reflect manga publishing and tropes of the time, but to take advantage of the North American fascination with anime that was prevalent in the early 2000s. Not that that fascination has gone away at all, but I think we're more used to it now. This series came out around the same time that the Marvel Mangaverse experiment was underway - if you could rethink something from a manga/anime perspective, you could generally get it published.
Aside from that, there's not really a lot to say about this issue. It is an ashcan, after all. I have a couple of issues of the actual series in the collection, so I'll find out eventually if the addition of dialogue helps or hinders the attempt to capture, using a venerable North American sex symbol, the Japanese comic/animation aesthetic.
More to follow.
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