The first issue was hit-or-miss and I wasn't sure I would bother to get this. I'm a sucker. I caved. And half of this is good. Not really good, but a good vampire romp. The second half, which is written by Stephen King, just doesn't have any flow to it. It's King having fun but not entirely caring what the audience thinks (that, or King still thinks ten year olds read comic books and thus probably thought it was awesome). The American vampire of the title is Skinner Sweet. He was an old West outlaw in King's section and in the 1920's Hollywood scene in the other section. In King's section he gets buried alive and a dam is built and his coffin, cemetery, and the town are soon at the bottom of a lake. Some smugglers looking to steal and sell Skinner's belongings go to the bottom of the lake and open the coffin. In the first section, a wannabe actress gets turned into a vamp and Skinner helps her out. The catch? She can walk around in sunlight thanks to Skinner's evolution. And she's a real monster when she morphs. And...it's nothing really new. The book is bloody and camp and the art by Rafael Albuquerque is nice and vibrant, but so far it all doesn't connect to make anything cohesive. It's just shards of stories mixed together and it doesn't entirely work. **
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