Shinku #3

writer: Ron Marz
artist: Lee Moder

I picked this one up because I kind of felt bad for the clerk who ordered a thousand copies which seemed destined to sit unappreciated (I was later told that this wasn't even what they'd actually ordered), and the fact that Ron Marz wrote it.

I've been a fan of Marz since he created Kyle Rayner in 1994, but I haven't actually read him much in the last few years, since he (as I would term it) exiled himself to lesser franchises and publishers. Yet I sensed there was something special to this particular effort, even though the main hook was a distinctively dressed female protagonist who busted out fancy ninja moves with a sword in the few pages I glanced at in the store.

The story, it seems, involves vampires, but in a thoroughly engaging way, more akin to Underworld and Blade than Twilight, but with richly envisioned characters. This is definitely one to keep an eye on.