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Wednesday Apr 25, 2007

Here's A Vampire Anecdote to Gnaw On

sienkiewicz-vampires.jpgComic book fans of a certain age will be thrilled to hear that Bill Sienkiewicz is drawing a 30 Days of Night spinoff, set in the world of the vampires-in-Alaska comic book franchise that's being adapted into a Josh Hartnett vehicle for fall 2007 release. (Why would vampires in Alaska make for a cool story? The answer is in the title!) There's really not much else to say about the project; then again, Sienkiewicz is one of those artists whose reputation, dating back to his work for Marvel Comics in the early '80s, is enough to guarantee huge sales. (All the hype that Watchmen gets in the mainstream media, for example, really ought to go to Elektra: Assassin, which Sienkiewicz drew to Frank Miller's script.) Really, I just wanted to share this one quote from the Newsarama interview, which has just about nothing to do with anything:

"Beavers, to the best of my knowledge, are not vampiric, though the thought of them being so is alternately both silly and horrifying. What I mean, for all you claustrophobes out there, is imagine being knocked unconscious by a tree that's been gnawed through with pinpoint accuracy so as to perfectly determine the angle and trajectory of its fall, and then you're dragged, nearly drowned, for yards and yards underwater, and pulled up into hollow of the beaver's dam where you can't move, and are continually attacked, growing weaker by the day, desanguinated drop by drop and then left to rot once you're empty or dead, whichever comes first. They'd never find your body. The silly part is that it's a ----ing beaver. That's why most people don't take Monty Python's killer rabbit for what it really is: a cautionary tale of nature's true violence."

Enjoy the rest of your day, folks!




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