I, Vampire #8 – Review

By: Joshua Hale Fialkov (story), Andrea Sorrentino (art), Marcelo Maiolo (colors)

The Story: Andrew and Mary take another step in their Ross-and-Rachel relationship.

The Review: Between you and me, I hate crossover events.  I’m not talking about Marvel and DC’s Big Events, the ones with their own maxi-series and scads of tie-ins, most of which are frivolous and immaterial.  With these you can choose which to buy, and which to rightfully ignore.  It’s a bit different when one title’s story spills into another, then spills back in again later, practically force you into picking up issues you never intended to get in the first place.

So it annoyed me to find “Rise of the Vampires” crossed over into Justice League Dark, a title I unceremoniously dropped just a few months before.  While this issue doesn’t start off in a drastically different place than where we left off last month, it’s nonetheless clear that a fairly important chunk of the story happened elsewhere, as we see Andrew Bennett returned from the “dead” and better than ever since Xanadu apparently “shunted” Cain’s power to him.