American Vampire Volume 4. (2012) - Plot & Excerpts
I have a few problems with this volume: 1) The first mini-arc that delves into the 1800's again kind of ruins the Skinner-Book story. They were adopted brothers?? Nothing we've read previously makes any damn sense with that new story addition. Plus, the story doesn't go anywhere. 2) That being said, the Travis Kidd arc should have melded parts of the third arc into it. It would have been defined and we probably could have explained a bit better HOW Skinner is alive and WHY he's working for the Vassals. Instead it's just weak and doesn't make any damn sense. Otherwise, this story is good. Travis is fun to read.4) I don't give two shits about Calvin Poole. 5) After all the time and energy we've put into Henry, we're just gonna randomly kill him off? And not even make his death meaningful, important, or worthwhile? And Pearl will have a really lane reaction? And it'll all happen in only like two pages? What the fuck, Scott?This could be a really incredibly solid volume but it's really just all over the place and I really hoped for a more definitive arc that would be as incredibly strong as the arcs in volumes 3 and 2, which were fucking fantastic. Much like Mick Farren Scott Snyder likes to remind us that vampires are predators, if not monsters. They don't sparkle and they aren't cuddly. This installment in his American Vampire series jumps from the post-Civil War American West to the 1950s USA. Unlike the earlier volumes Skinner is a supporting rather than the main character here. This volume centers more of the Vassals of the Morning Star, and one of the hunters whom they try to recruit.Travis may look like a 1950s greaser, but he a vampire hunter. A hunter who just might be every bit the monster that those he is hunting are.
What do You think about American Vampire Volume 4. (2012)?
One of the better ones in the series.
—anamaria_muz
