American Vampire Vol 4 Review
Overview: Southern New Mexico Territory, 1871. Before he became the Wild West’s most wanted man, before he became a whole new breed of American vampire, Skinner Sweet was a solider in the U.S. Army. but he’s still as dangerous and deadly as the monster he’d soon become.
Skinner’s willing to win the war with the local tribes by any means necessary. But so are they. And the long buried horror they’re preparing to unleash could change the course of human and vampire history forever…
Glendale, California, 1954. With his black leather jacket and bad attitude, Travis Kidd looks like any other juvenile delinquent. Be he’s a rebel with a cause: to kill his way through every vampire in America until he finds the one who slaughtered his family.
Travis is quickly becoming the vampires public enemy number one. but there are bigger, older killers out there than him. And if they catch him, they’ll put this wild one down for good…
Collecting: American Vampire 12-18 and American Vampire Survival of the Fittest 1-5
Pages: 208
Writers: Scott Snyder
Artist: Rafael Alburquerque, Jordi Bernet, Roger Cruz, Ricardo Burchielli
Colorist: David McCaig
Letters: Jared K Fletcher, Pat Brosseu
Recommendations:
This is one of my favorite books in the series. It has Sweet back when he was in the army and about to get into a fight with some native americans. He knows they are about to attack and wants to take extreme measures to ensure he survives the experience. What he finds though is something he was not expecting. The other story has a vampire hunter with secrets of his own hunting down some vampires living amongst us. Both of the stories were good and kept me engaged. The one with Sweet was hard to put down and I read that part of the book in one sitting.
Overall, this is the best series of stories so far in the collected editions.