Continuing our preview month, here’s a 16-page preview from Pinocchio, Vampire Slayer Volume 2: The Great Puppet Theater, the sequel to the best-selling Pinocchio, Vampire Slayer by Van Jensen and Dusty Higgins. In this installment, our wooden vampire hunter meets other like him in a story inspired by the great Italian puppet theaters seen to this day in Sicily. The Great Puppet Theater is published by SLG and is on sale this month.
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written by Van Jensen created and illustrated by Dusty Higgins SLG Publishing 2009 It's a clever idea for a graphic novel, marred slightly by clunkiness and serialization, but still fun.Picking up where Collodi's original story left off, Pinocchio is older, only slightly wiser, and still a puppet. No, he wasn't turned into a real boy. And his town is suddenly being culled by dark creatures of
Just a reassurance — the cover isn’t really green! Not sure what happened with that jpg.
Maybe we can call it the “Hulked Out” variant.
OOPS sorry about that — the image was posted as a CMYK, which either Graphic Converter or Ecto changed into the negative image.
This happens a lot with CMYK images — I dunno if it’s my software or what but I think it’s supposed to be best web practices not to post cmyk images — although I can think of a couple of publishers that do it all the time.
Anyway this was my bad as I did the image processing and should have noticed.
No worries! You should’ve just changed it and not commented, so that I’d look like a lunatic. Or more of one.
I just wanted to say that this is an incredible book! I was lucky enough to read a preview copy, and Dusty and Van are doing some incredible things with this series. I can’t wait for the next volume!
Choice looks even better than the first series ………