I’m not sure how we missed Pinocchio: Vampire Slayer when it came out last October, because it’s a really neat concept. Now, SLG Publishing announces the impending arrival of Pinocchio Vampire Slayer Vol Two: The Great Puppet Theater, coming in October.
Publisher Dan Vado writes: “More Lies! More Vampires! More… Puppets. Pinocchio, the little wooden vampire slayer, returns in an all new adventure. Pinocchio: The Great Puppet Theater features more danger, more deceit, and truckloads more nose-shanked vampires. The much anticipated sequel to critically acclaimed graphic novel Pinocchio: Vampire Slayer, follows the little wooden boy’s ongoing quest to find and kill the head vampire while he kills as many of his undead minions as he can along the way.
“Now with an undead Master Cherry and the addition of his long-lost marionette family in tow, Pinocchio might just be closer to getting his greatest wish granted than he ever thought possible. But, which wish? And will Pinocchio’s life ever be the same afterward? Both writer Van Jensen and artist Dustin Higgins raise the stakes as they reunite to continue the story of Pinocchio based on the legendary original version of the story by Carlo Collodi.”
Jensen adds “Collodi’s story is so rich that, if we wanted, we could fill dozens of books up with adventures spinning from his world. The challenge then really is in choosing the right pieces of his story to incorporate into ours without going overboard. While our story certainly spins off into totally different directions, I like to think it keeps up the tone of Collodi’s Pinocchio.”