Vampirella is one of the weirder characters in the comics canon. She’s a woman, a vampire, and an alien who is legally required to be mostly nude at all times (I may be taking some artistic license with that last part). And in Dynamite’s Vampirella #7, she’ll finally be dealing with her own identity in a new arc that, per PR, asks if “she is even an actual person.”
Written by Christopher Priest with art by Davis Goetten, the new arc will run through issue #11 and be titled “Identitatem.” In it, “Vampirella was originally created by her mother Lilith as a near-virtual clone of her first daughter Draculina. This raises a question: does Vampi in fact have a living soul? Does she possess all the rights and responsibilities of personhood? Or is she merely a construct, devised by dark sorcery and now an aimless husk, having fulfilled her mother’s purpose?”
It’s set on the Caribbean island of Tortola, and finds her living there with her “friend and lover” The Saint, and confronted by an artificial life-form known as Aris. While Aris takes a trip through Vampirella’s mind, Aris has to confront its own “non-personhood.”
Vampirella #7 will feature covers by Lucio Parrillo, Derrick Chew, Joseph Michael Linsner, Elias Chatzoudis, and cosplayer Rachel Hollon. You can check them out, below.
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