{"id":3464,"date":"2012-03-08T01:43:29","date_gmt":"2012-03-08T06:43:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/geekstronomy.com\/?p=3464"},"modified":"2012-03-08T01:43:29","modified_gmt":"2012-03-08T06:43:29","slug":"hard-copy-the-sabertooth-vampire-comes-to-dark-horse-presents","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/geekstronomy.com\/?p=3464","title":{"rendered":"Hard Copy: The Sabertooth Vampire Comes to Dark Horse Presents"},"content":{"rendered":"

Dark Horse Comics announces the latest character to be added to its flagship anthology,\"\"<\/a> Dark Horse Presents: the Sabertooth Vampire!<\/p>\n

Penned by Mike Russell (SabertoothVampire.com<\/a>), The Sabertooth Vampire is a webcomic about a tiny vampire hampered by his giant fangs. Will he pull his teeth out of the ground long enough to actually bite someone? Probably not.<\/p>\n

\u201cOne of the first books that got me into comics in the nineties was the original black-and-white Dark Horse Presents\u2014back when it was serializing stuff like Sin City and The One Trick Rip-Off and Hellboy: The Wolves of Saint August,\u201d said Russell. \u201cSo as you can imagine, getting to submit a few strips for DHP was a huge moment for me personally as well as professionally.\u201d<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>Russell has collected The Sabertooth Vampire in two self-published minicomics: the 28-page Beware the Sabre-Toothed Vampire and the 56-page Sabertooth Vampire Unleashed. The strips frequently contradict themselves as Russell dives into the Sabertooth Vampire\u2019s personal life\u2014his awkward teenage years, his stints as King Arthur and a caveman, his solo dance parties, his run-ins with Abbott and Costello and assorted angry mobs, and his awkward trip around the world after someone mistakes him for a garden gnome.<\/p>\n

\u201cPorting my webcomic over to DHP was an awesome experience for three very specific reasons,\u201d said Russell. \u201cOne, I got to add color to the strip, with the help of ace cartoonist\/colorist\/brother-in-arms Bill Mudron. Two, I received some first-class professional editing from Scott Allie and Daniel Chabon. And three, I swung for the fences and asked if I could draw a crossover strip where the Sabertooth Vampire fought one particular world-famous Dark Horse character, and to my delighted surprise, that character\u2019s creator said yes.\u201d<\/p>\n

Said Russell, \u201cThe Sabertooth Vampire is basically a \u2018Road Runner\u2019 riff on a single tragic idea: The dental feature that defines him as a vampire keeps him from being an effective vampire. Also he turns into a really pathetic bat.\u201d<\/p>\n

Look for The Sabertooth Vampire in Dark Horse Presents #12 and #14, on sale May 23 and July 18, 2012!<\/p>\n

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Dark Horse Comics announces the latest character to be added to its flagship anthology, Dark Horse Presents: the Sabertooth Vampire! Penned by Mike Russell (SabertoothVampire.com), The Sabertooth Vampire is a webcomic about a tiny vampire hampered by his giant fangs. … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[997,100,85,280,995,14,996,994],"class_list":["post-3464","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-hard-copy","tag-anthology","tag-dark-horse","tag-dark-horse-comics","tag-dark-horse-presents","tag-humor","tag-james","tag-mike-russell","tag-the-sabertooth-vampire"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/geekstronomy.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3464","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/geekstronomy.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/geekstronomy.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/geekstronomy.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/geekstronomy.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3464"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/geekstronomy.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3464\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3476,"href":"https:\/\/geekstronomy.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3464\/revisions\/3476"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/geekstronomy.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3464"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/geekstronomy.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3464"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/geekstronomy.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3464"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}