Blood and Water [Paperback]

Judd Winick (Author), Tomm Coker (Illustrator)

Book Description

Publication Date: October 20, 2009

Adam Heller is dying, but before he can take the big dirt nap, his best friends offer him a chance at immortality and he takes it. Now Adam is a vampire living it up on the wild side and it's everything he could ever want. But the eternal party crashes to a bloody halt when an ancient monster awakens from the dark, forgotten places of the world and comes looking for Adam. The startling reason this monster has come looking for him may be the most horrifying realization of all.

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Nothing seems to be going right for Adam. A case of food poisoning gave him hepatitis A, he takes a laundry list of medications, and now doctors tell him he has inoperable cancer of the liver and won’t live long. When best friends Joshua and Nicole hear the bad news, they reveal that they’re vampires and can help him beat his illness by making him a vampire, too. Reborn as undead, Adam has never felt better. Unfortunately, his vampire friends unleashed an ancient evil when they helped him, one hell-bent on finding them and making them dinner. Offbeat characters, dark humor, the story, and the grim realism of the artwork add warped excitement to this welcome departure from the usual trappings of the vampire genre. --Carlos Orellana

Product Details

• Paperback: 128 pages
• Publisher: Vertigo (October 20, 2009)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 140120175X
• ISBN-13: 978-1401201753
• Product Dimensions: 6.6 x 0.3 x 10.1 inches
• Shipping Weight: 10.1 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,719,745 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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5.0 out of 5 stars You'll be thirsty for more, February 17, 2010

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Kauffinbauchser (Tacoma, WA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Blood and Water (Paperback)

So I got this as part of package of books I bought. Thought I'd resell it rather than read it, but I was in the mood for something dark and thought I'd give it a try. If you're one of those fanboys who hates Judd Winick than I guess you won't like this one either, but I really dug it.

In five short issues we're exposed to a new world of vampires who (as is the fashion nowadays) expel the rumors about being nosufur-atu and introduce us to their cool, secret world. We get to meet a sample of the wide loosely connected society of vampires, and learn something of their organization. We meet an ancient enemy, and see our hero triumph.. At a cost.

By the end of the book I was more than a little interested in the world I had been exposed to, and wanted to follow the further adventures of the protagonist. It doesn't seem likely that anymore will come of this series, but if it does I'll be first in line to pick it up.