Rather than being a living-dead creature of folklore, Vampi is a beautiful vampiric alien from the planet Drakulon. As many traditional vampires, Vampirella has a constant need for blood, and the ability to sprout bat wings. She is also endowed with many supernatural abilities, including extraordinary strength, speed, and ferocity. Although a killer by nature and necessity, Vampi has an endearing innocence. She also shares a trait now common in many contemporary vampires; remorse for the deeds that her nature often forces her to commit. In the '90's, Vampirella has seen a revival of her undying popularity.
FROM CHAOS COMICS
Chastity
Chastity was just your everyday American teenage girl living in London back in the mid-1970's when the punk rock scene was the rage. One night in 1977 on her way home from a concert, she fell victim to a local vampire and, as a result, became one herself. Afterward, she continued to live on the fringes of alternative culture, where no one questioned a few strange habits, and if someone disappeared...well, those things happened.
The 1990's find Chastity living in the ravaged remains of New York City AAE (After Evil Ernie). She meets a coven of critically burned vampires and, in exchange for their blood, sells them her considerable skills. Her mission: kill Evil Ernie!
The Countess
Ignorant of "life" among the undead, Chastity is educated by the mysterious Countess but in return, Chastity must adopt a variety of personae and assassinate a cabal of powerful bloodsuckers! As Chastity is swept up into a web of international intrigue, she is silently stalked by a powerful predatory werewolf. The wolf, not remotely a mindless beast, anticipates her every move with surgical precision. Once the hunter, Chastity realizes that the Countess's deadly agenda may cost her her life.
Purgatori
Like all of the offspring of the fallen angels, Purgatori became a creature of pure evil and a corruption of true humanity. She thrust her bloodlust on humanity over 3000 years ago in Egypt, but she desired even more power than that of a vampire. After winning entry into Hell, she learned that the blood of a god in turmoil contains immeasurable power when she dared taste the blood of Lucifer.
Purgatori was banished to Necropolis for this affront, but she eventually made her way back to Hell to attempt to usurp Lady Death's power by drinking her blood. Her plan ultimately failed, and Lady Death cast her through the Nexus of All Things to Earth. Now in San Francisco, she wreaks havoc on Earth while attempting to quench her insatiable thirst for blood. From Chaos Comics.
FROM INNOVATION
Vigil
This is the story of Grace Kimble, a dead cop, now vampire, pulling the guns of the law against crime mush faster than she could bite them. Of course, when you're nailing down un-dead foes, you don't necessarily get up close and personal, so bullets do far more damage than fangs. But she gets her share of blood, as any vampire would do. Duality Press / From Innovation Publication March 1992
Durham Red, a mutant bountyhunter. Although she has to drink blood to live (like a vampire), she doesn't suffer from the traditional weaknesses of supernatural vampires. Her character was introduced in the Strontium Dog story "Bitch" (# 505-529). Her first solo stories were written by Alan Grant to tie in with the main series 2000 AD.
Famepire
Elaine, a Chicago City cop gets bitten during an arrest. Little she knew that the man attacking the young girl was a vampire. Now, she's transforming, both mentally and physically. Now she must decide what she'll do next.
Vampfire
Bethany is the daughter of a vampiress and a demon. Story from the Jim Ballent Studios.
FROM JAPAN
Vampire Princess Miyu
In ancient time, gods and demons were once the same. They were called Shinma.
Vampire Princess Miyu (Kyuuketsuki Miyu) is a manga series and four part OAV series by Narumi Kakinouchi about a young vampire who is charged with the task of returning stray Shinma to the darkness from which they escaped.
From her earliest memory, Miyu drank human blood, given to her by her mother, in a glass. Meeting Larva, a Western Shinma coming to Japan to kill Miyu, his touch brings out her vampiric nature. As a true vampire, Miyu takes blood from willing humans, leaving them in an eternal blissful dream state.
Vampire Yui
In "Vampire Yui, Vol. 1: A New Awakening", artist and author Narumi Kakinouchi revisits the gothic world portrayed in her original "Vampire Princess Miyu" manga - this time viewing it through the eyes of a teenager who is just coming to the realization that she is not quite as normal as she once thought she was.
A long illness, accompanied by strange dreams and nighttime visitors already familiar to Kakinouchi fans, brings the long-hidden secret of Yui's half- shinma/half-vampire lineage to the forefront, leaving the naïve heroine of this series at a loss.
What should she do with her newfound knowledge and abilities? Can she trust Nagi, the one individual who knows her secret? Is this mysterious young man who he seems to be. . . or is he something entirely different?
Miyu is, first and foremost, an otherworldly being, but her younger, literary sibling is, in many ways, still painfully human. Yui's difficulty with acknowledging her immortality and her reluctance to let go of her humanity, despite the heartbreak, make the first graphic novel in the "Vampire Yui" series an elegantly-realized and angsty addition Kakinouchi's existing vampire mythology. (five book series)
Shin Vampire Miyu
The third series, "Shin Vampire Miyu", is by Kakinouchi and Hirano. Its story involves the invasion of the Western Shinma into Japan, and characters from both the "Vampire Miyu" series and the "Vampire Yui" series appear.
The Shin series is complete and is five books long.
Vampire Dahlia
Dahlia is desperately alone, left with vivid memories from when she was alive and when she fell in love with a handsome artist who also happened to be a vampire. He waited for her, and, in the time it took for her to grow up, she became his muse. Then tragedy stuck: Instead of the forever they thought they had, he began to age and, eventually, passed on.
Unlike Kakinouchi's other famous vampires, Dahlia truly travels through time in a solitary fashion. She has no friends or companions, and she must rely upon her own wits when she gets into difficult situations. She doesn't have guilt over being a vampire. The things she does to survive and protect herself are all in the name of reuniting with Ranan. Her singular pursuit of and intense longing for this ultimate goal, at once make her inhuman and imbue her vignettes with a mature resonance and sense of empathy that matches the visual intensity of the work's more macabre elements. Kakinouchi's refusal to pass judgment on her creation forces Dahlia beyond the traditional role of the tragic heroine. Dahlia isn't good or bad. She just is. This moral ambiguity - accompanied and contradicted by the lead character's particular brand of pure-heartedness - make "The Vampire Dahlia" a challenging story of love, loss and longing that fans of the author-artist's other works will enjoy. (Six comic issues or as a single graphic novel).
Blood, The Last Vampire
A powerfully drawn original graphic novel narrative based on characters and situations from the 2001 anime «Blood: The Last Vampire», once the fastest-selling title in the history of Manga Entertainment.
Taken from a concept developed by Ghost in the Shell's Mamoru Oshii, one of the 21st century's hottest young comics artists, the violent, erotic Benkyo Tamaoki, updates the Vietnam War-era anime story to present-day Japan. The immortal Saya returns-a generation later, but still clad in her trademark sailor suit and armed with ancient samurai sword-continuing her unholy war against the vampiric Chiropterans. Infiltrating a gang-ridden high school, Saya more than suspects the brutal set known as "ORGE" is just the latest mask of her blood thirsty prey.
