Dusty Higgins

The Humble Bundle continues to be one of the best values in comic books, and as you might expect, this week they've turned their attention to the morespoooooky side of things. And by that, I mainly mean comics where Pinocchio uses his endless wooden nose to stab vampires. In addition to several books without pictures -- which I find strange and frightening -- the current Horror Book bundle added a bunch of horror comics today, including The Mocking Dead by Fred Van Lente and Max Dunbar, a volume of Valiant's Shadowman by Peter Milligan and Roberto de la Torre, the first omnibus of Dark Horse's Buffy the Vampire Slayer comics, the first two issues of Roberto Aguirre-Sacasa and Francesco Francavilla's Afterlife With Archie, and more.

It's very easy to dismiss Pinocchio, Vampire Slayer without ever reading a single page. That's part of the trouble for the creator of a high concept book: If it's something that can be boiled down to three words, it's easy for readers to think they've got everything they need to know...

Pinocchio, Vampire Slayer: Of Wood and Blood, the third and final installment of the PVS trilogy by Van Jensen and Dusty Higgins, will stab its way onto comiXology in January. Following two printed OGNs (Pinocchio, Vampire Slayer and Pinocchio, Vampire Slayer Volume 2: The Great Puppet Theater), Of Wood and Blood marks the series' first outing as an initially serialized volume, though a trade pap

Despite a propensity to brood, the best vampire slayers live (and sometimes die) by the words of the Beatles and get by with a little help from their friends. Buffy had the Scooby Gang, Blade had the Nightstalkers and Van Jensen and Dusty Higgins' vampire-slaying version of Carlo Collodi's Pinocchio has six new wooden pals from The Great Puppet Theater. SLG began teasing the colorful cast of this

After weeks of momentum-building teasers, Robot6 let loose with Pinocchio's full roster of puppet pals set to debut in the pages of "Pinocchio: Vampire Slayer and the Great Puppet Theater." Flavio, Isabella, Il Capitano, Harlequin, Columbina and Punchinello join the yet-to-be-a-real-boy courtesy of series creators Van Jensen and Dusty Higgins, who will unveil an all-new preview for the

"Pinocchio Vampire Slayer" writer Van Jensen went into HeroesCon with two secrets last weekend. 1) The full title of he and Dusty Higgin's upcoming sequel to last autumn's wooden puppet thriller and 2) An image teasing said title's supporting cast...