Vampire State Building, where Charlie Adlard shows off his impressive skills as an artist, is a good scary story to read at Halloween, although not yet released in Spain, Ablaze has released a hardcover compilation of the miniseries.

Charlie AdlardKnown primarily as the artist of The Walking Dead, he shapes the screenplay of Ange-Renault in a collection that includes the four original cornerstones of the scary series Vampire State Buildingso the reader can expect to be bitten from the first page of the volume.

A large coffin of more than a hundred plants

THE Green Foundation is renovating the Empire State Building and the workers in charge of the reform find a partition What It wasn’t in the original plans of the building, being a room with an iron door on the seventy-fifth floor. When they manage to open the strange door, the workers see strange tribal symbols inside and, suddenly, an arm emerges from the ceiling of the room, while several homeless people break into the skyscraper.

At the same time, in another part of the building there is a small gathering of friends. Terry Fisher he is a young soldier who will be assigned abroad to serve in the ranks of Uncle Sam, but first he will say goodbye to his friends, who he met at the observatory of the famous Empire State Building in New York, with the intention of organizing a party Goodbye.

Unexpectedly, a horde of vampires attacks the skyscraper and a real massacre begins inside, where the homeless begin to feed on the blood of the building’s employees and visitors. Trapped in the building’s 102 floors, the major tourist attraction becomes a death trap, so Terry must put all his effort and determination into saving himself and his friends… and the entire city of New York from the trapped vampires inside it walls spread like an uncontrollable plague.

The plot and design

Vampire State Building it’s a comic that without great initial pretensions has the ability to tell a good horror story. The Empire State Building is 381 meters long and has 102 floors, where each floor tells its own story of survivors trying to fight vampires, where Terry and Mary They will try to do everything possible to save their friends.

Him vampire god U’tlun’ta He has awakened and will use the building to trap the people inside, so he can feed himself and gradually regain his power. The authorities surround the building and send in the city police tactical team, as they initially believe it to be a terrorist act. When the ESU agents of the New York police are decimated after being attacked by vampires, the anguish of the survivors grows and the authorities do not allow the evil to spread outside the doors.

After being inundated with zombies, the appearance of a series with other monsters is a good start to reading the volume of Vampire State Buildingwhere furthermore the traditional Transylvanian explanation is abandoned for a new interpretation placing a location known worldwide as the origin of the vampire plague; this place allows it every reader feels identified as a possible tourist/victim. Another point in its favor is that the protagonists are normal, ordinary people, so their ability to survive will not be the same for everyone, giving a veneer of realism to the fiction.

While the origin of the vampire god is not explained muchhis resurrection and the actions he takes are perfectly narrated; Furthermore, the characters are introduced as they enter the action and their previous personal background is unknown, so the reader only knows what they show and helps create the tension necessary for the plotalong with the intrigue and curiosity of what will happen to them.

The development of the script takes shape through the sequence of events which are carried out, providing masterfully information to the reader. The screenwriter has woven a story where as the pages progress the dominoes fall and show the different layers of the story, in a dynamic sequence that ends only with the outcome of the story.

Los the characters follow one another in excellent choreographywith a very large group dwindling as the vampires feast on the people in the building, but without knowing who will survive and who will not. The pace imposed by the narrative is extraordinaryproviding twists and surprises throughout the pages, being an injection of adrenaline to go from one page to the next.

The readers of The walking dead They know the work of Charlie Adlard in the series, which is why there is no need to make any presentation of his work in this Vampire State Building. For those unfamiliar with Adlard’s work, this artist created a innovative work in black and whitewhich is already legendary, so seeing it in such a glorious color thanks to Sebastiandelights readers.

There are scenes and moments that remind us what the true talent of an artist is, like when you see the city, the buildings and the streets, which are very evocative images. Sequential work is magnificent and the way in which the different counterweights highlighted the the attention to detail is impressive.

The use of page layouts and the way angles and perspective appear on the panels show a masterful eye for storytelling. The composition within the panels is magnificentbecause they provide a perception of depth, scale and that sense of dimension and scope of the book, while also showing the backgrounds. The color makes it stand out even more.because there are shades and tones within the colors that create shadows, highlights and shadows that exude much more than an image.

The edition

The volume of On fire contains the four original paper clips of the series, is published on colorin English, with a length of 144 pagestogether with additional material like the character sketcheslas original covers and the alternative coverageshighlighting those that pay homage to other comics such as The Infinity Gauntlet, Todd McFarlane’s Spiderman or The X-Men.

For more scary stories this Halloween, you can listen to La Casa De El’s special podcast, which is already a classic these days: Podcast LCDE 241: The Tree House of Terror IX.

The massacre continues in the most famous skyscraper in the world! Legions of vampires have taken control of the Empire State Building, and their victims have been revived and joined their ranks. Outside, the police and military are doing their best to contain the threat in the building and to destroy any creature that attempts to invade New York City. But Mary and Terry are still somewhere in the plans and have only a little time to try to escape and, perhaps, to survive.