First there was Pride and Prejudice and Zombies followed by Sense and Sensibility and Sea Monsters which led to an increasing number of books pitting real historical figures (Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter; Queen Victoria: Demon Hunter) & other well-known fictional characters (The Adventures of Tom Sawyer and the Undead; Little Women and Werewolves) against supernatural creatures. When I saw the black, red, & white cover of this book I simply HAD to read it just to find out WHAT IN THE WORLD they were doing with Pinocchio!!The basis for this graphic novel is the original Pinocchio by Carlo Collodi, NOT the Disney version of the story - far from it! Poor Pinocchio, he's still a wooden puppet and still has that little problem with lying & a nose which grows every time he does. But that wooden nose is coming in quite handy these days... Geppetto, his beloved father, has been killed by vampires which are overrunning Pinocchio's home village of Nasolungo. And our little wooden boy has developed quite a chip on his shoulder because no one believes him when he tells them about fighting with vampires (despite the fact that his nose doesn't grow when he relates the tale) and things are getting worse every night.
The interior artwork is strictly black & white but well-suited to the subject matter with dark images and the violence involved in destroying vampires. The mood is somber but there is humor too and even a slight touch of romance plus a 2nd volume was published in 2010: Pinocchio, Vampire Slayer: the Great Puppet Theater. If you just can't get enough of classic literature and the supernatural, then this may just be a book for you to check out. :-)
And to tease you some more, click on the following link to learn about Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Slayer (the movie) -- http://www.imdb.com/title/
You do know that this is seriously messed up! ;)
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