Dynamite Entertainment has announced that Christopher Priest’s half-decade-plus run on Vampirella will continue this September with the new story arc ‘Identitatem’, offering fans a new jumping on point to the ongoing adventures of the Daughter of Drakulon in the pages of Vampirella #7 (legacy numbering #682).
Vampirella is a woman, yet also a vampire, and an alien. In a modern world where the search for identity is pivotal, the Daughter of Drakulon finds herself caught questioning if she is even an actual person.
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?
After the future-shock of “The Long Night,” the distraught vampiress takes refuge in the tiny Caribbean island of Tortola in the British Virgin Islands, alongside her friend and lover The Saint — last seen in Vampirella: Year One. There she is confronted by a powerful sentient artificial life form known as Aris, who is trying to revive the enigmatic Host, an alien life form to which Vampirella was briefly connected to in a past tale. As this entity journeys through the mind of Vampirella, her deepest insecurities are set against a dark mirror of Aris’ own confident acceptance of non-personhood.
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