Author: Rodney Barnes
Art: Jason Shawn Alexander
Release Date: 2022 (TPB)
Contains spoilers
The blurb: The perfect jumping on point for new readers and a pivotal turning point for the series! The sold-out, Eisner Award-nominated horror series returns with a brand-new arc from Rodney Barnes, the writer behind such hit shows as HBO’s Winning Time and STARZ’s American Gods, and Jason Shawn Alexander, the artist who redefined SPAWN.
After two and a half centuries, the greatest hero in American history has returned as its greatest threat! George Washington: Commander-in-Chief of the Continental Army, Founding Father, First President of the United States... and all-powerful Vampire King! Now undead detective James Sangster Sr. and his werewolf allies must fight for the survival of every man, woman and child in the country. But what can they do against the very leader who won the battle for America the first time around?!
Collects KILLADELPHIA #19-24
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The review: I enjoy the Killadelphia series but I do not agree with the blurb here, in that I don’t think this is a new reader jump on point (just go and start with Volume 1) and the arc is less brand new than it is a twist of the old arcs and a redrawing of battle lines.
George Washington has returned, and vampirism has been kind to him, restoring more youthful looks compared to say Savage’s famous portrait of the President. And it turns out that he has been pulling the strings all along. He captures SeeSaw who, having been crucified, very quickly seems to join with him (if this is a ruse it does not get revealed in this volume) and, by the end, survivors, vampires, werewolves and witches seem to have all become allies, burning hatreds have apparently been forgotten and the enemy is now a summoned vampire hunting Toussaint Louverture, the historical Haitian revolutionary. It’s interesting that Louverture has been resurrected by the side of light and therefore the reader is manoeuvred to sympathise with the side of darkness.
In the Afterword, Barnes says that, at last, the series has delivered the promised war – something that will continue in the next volume – and this is true. It will be interesting in the next volume to see how the new alliance is explained and fares.
7 out of 10.
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