Blood type #1 written by Andrea Sorrentino Art and Corinna Bechko and Dave Stewart’s Colors are picked up immediately after the events of Epitaph’s short story “Blood type” in Abyss #3. Did you miss that problem? no problem. In summary, vampire Ada escapes a sinking yacht with an inflatable raft with a group of survivors and drifts into the middle of the ocean. Luckily, the boat passes by and saves her.
And then blood type #1 begins, and Ada means more victims to eat as she is rescued in a boat much larger than before. And she’s hungry.
As always for the ADA, things aren’t going well. The charm she uses to “tame” certain people is simply giving her a useless hanger, thinking they will become useful servants, not giving her the peace of the moment, and ultimately proving she is incompetent and annoying.
This is the case of the captain of the ship who saves her. As she gets more and more annoyed, it’s more interesting to see him chase her like a poor puppy dog than it should have been.
Most of this issue takes place on Caribbean islands. On the Caribbean island, Ada is betting on the island and is excited by the prospect of an endless number of natives and vacationers eating until they realize there is another vampire (maybe their horde?) occupying the island. What is a humane vampire?
Vampires these days look a lot like zombies. They are used in film and literature, and they almost saturate everything.
Luckily, writer Corinna Bechko makes Ada a different character like a demon, separating her from the numerous vampires we’ve seen before. Ada is totally disorderly and has no rules other than doing whatever she can to survive and sleep. She has the true freedom of someone who is not bound by her own conscience even in the rules of society, and it makes her strangely attractive. Her descent is joy and vibrant, ignoring anyone who is quite contagious to everyone around her.
Naturally, her biggest flaw is that she is grossly impulsive and mercury. She doesn’t think she’s planning or thinking ahead.
I loved Andrea Sorrentino’s art here. His style is like a blend of Je Lee and Jeff Darrow’s work. It combines Darrow’s painstaking details with innovative panel layouts with hints for drawing Lee’s dark, grotesque figure. The one double-page splash page at the climax in question is particularly impressive, with Ada chasing the mountains by a group trying to kill her. The giant cliff is overlaid with bat-shaped panels, each showing one of her desperate pursuers. It is one of many beautiful images throughout the book and I look forward to seeing more Sorrentino art in the future.
The book teases the giant vampires that are plaguing the island, bringing the ending of a great cliffhanger, and sets some great mysteries. If blood types continue to maintain Ada Ada’s edgy relentlessness and are unable to water her over time, Oni has a successful series and potentially legendary characters in the roster where they can create stories for years to come. Ada the Vampire is a distinctive, disorderly character that is very different from other vampire characters in the past, and she makes the book a compelling read.
“Blood Type” #1 is a unique disorder
Blood type #1
Ada The Vampire is a distinctive, disorderly character, very different from other vampire characters in the past, and she makes the book a compelling read.
Andrea Sorrentino’s art is amazing and extremely detailed with innovative panel layouts that keep the pages dynamic.
Ada is a fascinating character and I look forward to seeing more of her exploits in the future.
