killadelphia vol 1 sins of the father rodney barnes

An unlikely trio - the city's young chief medical examiner, a murdered homicide detective who just returned as a vampire, and the detective's adult son (a beat cop from Baltimore) - appear to be the metropolis' only hope to stop this intended revolution.

to covertly create and sustain an army of the undead over the next 200+ years in the Philadelphia area (!). In reality, they've become vampires and return to the U.S. It's plotted here that, post-presidency, Adams and his wife Abigail supposedly both contract yellow fever during a trip to an unspecified island in the Caribbean Sea. So begins Killadephia, which boasts one of the better - or at least more original - storyline set-ups that I've lately encountered in a non-superhero graphic novel. 'A vampire president? I know they were monsters, but vampires?!' - medical examiner Jose Padilla He's our 'patient zero.'' - homicide detective-turned-vampire James Sangster 'Second president of the United States John Adams. There were too many great horror comics to fit them all into October's buddy reads, so we're just kind of reheating the leftovers. I have the second volume, so we'll see how it goes from here. I liked all the characters minus the John Adams musical bullshit. I can feel the Hamilton fans swarming me now. So when I read the author's note at the end and he said he got the idea from Hamilton, I actually laughed out loud.

But I just assumed there was something pertinent I was missing because, let's face it, I'm usually missing something pertinent. The main thing I couldn't figure out was why John Adams as the head vampire? To me, it seemed kind of random and smelled a bit of that Hamilton musical. The angry father/son stuff felt familiar, but the cop thing with the vampire spin on it pushed the dynamic far enough away from other things I've read that it made it seem like a very fresh sort of story. I actually liked this quite a bit more than I thought I would.

Killadelphia vol 1 sins of the father rodney barnes