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Although comic book reviews are not normally our thing here at www.moviesandmetal.com, sometimes it does us good to look beyond the music  and films that ‘our’ people are producing and have taste of something different.  And that is what Alex Dementia, frontman with MAM favourites The Resurrection Sorrow  and Midnight Dreams Productions head honcho, has gone and done.

Scripted by Dementia, illustrated by New York artist Isaac Carey Nejako and designed by Seldon Hunt, Vrykolakas: The Unholy is the first in a series of comic books following a story with its roots in the Greek mythology of the Vrykolakas – the dead who return to life to cause misery to the living.  As this is only the first in the series – and is only twenty-three pages long – there isn’t a great deal here to scrutinise, although it must be said that the combination of Nejako’s ‘less-is-more’ illustrative style and an opening scenario that begs the reader to ask questions aplenty is a good start and evocative of The Crow in feel. 

So as soon as issue number two is available then we shall strive to bring you more thoughts.  In the meantime, Vrykolakas: The Unholy is available from the Midnight Dreams Productions website at http://www.midnightdreamspro.com/vrykolakas.html where you can also buy The Resurrection Sorrow’s brilliant debut album Hour of the Wolf, or you can click on the above image.