I, Vampire #9 – Review

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

The Story: Even monster-slaying can’t resist going corporate after all these centuries.

The Review: Now that I’ve had a month to mull upon this series’ most recent events, I must conclude the whole Justice League Dark crossover and the “Rise of the Vampires” were a bit premature.  Since Andrew still hadn’t made peace with his role in the vampire world, for Fialkov to suddenly thrust him into such a major shift in position felt like an almost unintended move, one which neither Andrew nor Fialkov know what to do with from now on.

After all, now that Andrew has this massive army of vampires under his wing, it’s not exactly clear what he plans to do with them all.  He clearly won’t allow them to feed upon actual humans, but he can’t keep them cooped up in a Hooverville out in the Utah desert forever—that weekly shipment of “five hundred head of cattle” will get pretty dear before too long.  It’s an unsustainable situation, a fact Mary points out with some amusement.