Today's One Question Interview stars Van Jensen and Dusty Higgins, the team behind Slave Labor Graphics' cult favourite, Pinocchio: Vampire Slayer. For those unfamiliar, all you need to imagine is that, here, the pure-hearted puppet-boy notes from Van Helsing's playbook is offing vampires left, right, and centre WITH HIS NOSE. Anne Rice has nothing on this, let us tell you.
Gearing up for the release of the book's sequel, subtitled The Great Puppet Theatre, we asked Jensen (the book's writer) to tell us a little about what readers can expect in the upcoming book:
Gearing up for the release of the book's sequel, subtitled The Great Puppet Theatre, we asked Jensen (the book's writer) to tell us a little about what readers can expect in the upcoming book:
What's new with Pinocchio?
"Everyone's favorite vampire-slaying puppet has been missing for a year, but rest assured that he's spent that time traveling across Italy and putting the undead back in their graves. Pinocchio, the talking cricket, the fairy and a surprise friend have made it to Rome. But, as you could probably guess, they're too busy fighting vampires to enjoy any sightseeing. Unless epic fights in catacombs walled with skulls counts as sightseeing. The wooden boy also has had a family reunion of sorts, as the surviving members of the Great Puppet Theater have joined him on the hunt. Their particular brand of family reunion means battling with vampire gypsies, vampire pirates and the like. Let me reiterate that last point: vampire pirates!"
Check Pinocchio's official website now for a super-fun competition, where readers can get their hands on some serious vampire slayin' swag by designing their very own murderous puppet. Bound by the code of comic blogger professionalism, we can't enter, but let me tell you, if we did, we'd blow the rest of you out of the water.
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