C. Priest to write new Vampirella ongoing

[Hypestyle]

https://www.superherohype.com/comics...aunch#/slide/1

hopefully this new take on Vampirella (and I'm sure there will be more after this) will be accepted and successful enough for him to continue as the writer for at least a couple of years, and spin off into some more projects for some of the "top tier" comics characters.

https://www.newsarama.com/45281-chri...ampirella.html

**from the article**

Illustrated by Ergun Gunduz, Dynamite's new Vampirella relaunch begins with the alien vampire as the last survivor of a plane crash which took away any friend or acquaintance she had. Now she's here on Earth and all alone. And this isn't a fictional world known to have vampires, witches, warlocks, or werewolves - this is the real world, and you know how real people would take to someone like Vampirella?

... but do you, really?

As Priest tells Newsarama in an email interview, Vampirella's supernatural abilities are "a metaphor for a univeral human condition, for being either rejected or idealized (or, in the case of our series, both) because you are different. Anyone who’s ever moved to a new town or a new school or taken a new job should be able to identify with Vampi’s challenges."

Priest, an ordained Baptist minister (as a reminder to readers, prefers to be addressed as 'Priest'), shared his thoughts with Newsarama on how the prospect of writing Vampirella was first received by him, how it fits within his religious life, and how he's using it to examine humanity.