Book 14 for my 2026 goal of 36 books for the year! Still keeping a decent pace. As usual, my link to the book is through my bookshop.org affiliate account, which means I may earn a small commission if you buy from there.

If you’re really familiar with horror, you’re probably familiar with EC Comics. It started in 1944 as Educational Comics but was rebranded in 1950 as Entertaining Comics and began its famous run of publishing horror, suspense, science fiction and crime fiction. Tales From the Crypt is an EC Comics creation, and so if you enjoy that sort of horror, you know what you’re getting from EC.

EC Comics was largely focused on reprints of its classic works from the 1970s to the mid 2010s. It is only recently, in 2024, that the brand was given a full revival with new works being released.

It so happens that one of my internet friends Corinna Bechko wrote one of the recent 2026 releases, Blood Type, with art by Andrea Sorrentino and colors by Dave Stewart, and I had to read it!

This volume collects the four issues Blood Type #1-#4 as well as some additional material from Epitaphs From the Abyss #3.

The series follows Ada, a 200 year old vampire whose immortality has made her rather reckless in her pursuit of blood. When one of her kills gets out of hand, she escapes by boat and ends up on a beautiful Caribbean island loaded with tourists. It seems like the ideal situation, where she can hunt to her undead heart’s content. But she soon learns that there may be another predator on the island of a different nature but an equally strong thirst for blood… and she may also be seen as prey.

Ada is a perfect antihero, a character completely self-absorbed in her own pursuits and perfectly happy to let anyone else fall by the wayside. Much of the run of the comics is Ada essentially going on a nearly endless rampage, only paused by the necessity to get out of the sun during the day. As the story progresses, we learn more and more about the other mysterious predator on the island as well as Ada’s own history and backstory: how did she become the remorseless hunter that she is?

This is a fun tale! It went in directions I wasn’t expecting and kept me enthralled throughout. I read the whole thing in a single morning, which wasn’t particularly hard because it is a bit over four comics in length! The story felt very much like a classic EC Comic as I remember them, with flawed over the top characters and lots of blood and gore.

The art and colors by Sorrentino and Stewart is also excellent and suits the story and its setting very well. It was a visual as well as a narrative treat.

Like most graphic novel compilations I’ve seen, the back of the volume includes a variant cover gallery and it is always fun to see different takes on the material.

The character of Ada is definitely a remorseless monster, but Corinna Bechko manages to make you eager to see how far and how long she can get away with things!