The DIE!NAMITE Saga Returns With ‘Blood Red’

by Erik Amaya

Dynamite’s DIE!NAMITE saga will be seeing Blood Red this fall.

The company announced Tuesday the imminent release of DIE!NAMITE: Blood Red from writer Fred Van Lente and artist Marco Finnegan. The zombie men are also back assaulting the walls of the fortified Sunset City, but the women inside are ready for their siege of the settlement. Nevertheless, problems in the walled city may prove more perilous. Per Dynamite’s description of the series, “Various factions vie for power amidst this dystopian landscape. At the top of the food chain — at least on the side where people are not eating each other — sits Purgatori, the deadly demon-vampiress. Under her command are the Furies, a squad of enforcers including the one and only Vampirella. The Daughter of Drakulon is forcibly quarantined to Earth, to keep the male-driven plague at bay from her native world.”

Vampi isn’t alone, though, as “a centuries-hardened warrior from the red planet arrives on the scene” and Miss Fury makes her presence known. Dynamite also promises other character from across their publishing initiatives may make their way to Sunset.

“So excited to bring this brand-new take on the Dynamite — and DIE!NAMITE — mythos to the stands,” Van Lente said in a statement. “It hit me that it’d be interesting to mix the pulp, sci-fi elements of these characters in with the zombie virus, and since there are so many strong female protagonists, it’d be a fun twist on the typical zombie story if the disease was gender-based. Women can’t become zombies, but they can become lunch, so it’s up to Vampirella, Dejah Thoris and friends to save mankind — literally!”

Supporting the debut issue are covers from EJ Su, David Cousens, Will Robson, and Godtail. The first issue will also feature a “special mystery black bag offering.”