Vampirella/Shi
Limited Preview Ash Can #1 (July 1997)
Regular Cover - Louis Small Jr., Mark Morales (3,000 copies) $1.95
Signed (Small) Cover - Louis Small Jr., Mark Morales (250 copies) $9.99
Nine Kinds of Dirt [Artists - Louis Small Jr., Mark Morales / Writer - Warren Ellis] (as in Issue #1 below)
A small black and white preview of the pages of the forthcoming Vampirella/Shi crossover, backed up with some examples of Adam Hughes and Louis Small Jr.'s pencils for the covers.
Issue #1 (September 1997)
Regular Cover - Adam Hughes $2.95
Signed (Small) Regular Cover - Adam Hughes (500 copies) $14.95
Limited Edition B&W cover - Louis Small Jr. (3,000 copies) $9.95
Signed (Small) Limited Edition B&W cover - Louis Small Jr. $14.95
Limited Chromium Edition - Louis Small Jr., Grey (750 copies) $19.95
Nine Kinds of Dirt [Artists - Louis Small Jr., Mark Morales / Writer - Warren Ellis]
Vampirella is tracking a vampire couple, but finds that someone has beaten her to the kill and the female is decapitated. Tracking the male to his house, Vampirella is confronted by Shi (who killed the female vampire). The male vampire returns home and attacks Vampirella, as a group of Yakuza attack Shi.
The Yakuza are easily defeated, but Shi and Vampirella argue over the male vampire whom Shi does not want to kill as she has no argument with him. After a cat fight with Shi, Vampirella manages to kill the vampire and leaves.
A very cleverly written tale, with a good balance of Shi and Vampirella. Though a relatively short story it was punctuated by references from Sun Tzu -"The Art of War", a tome that has become more popular in the last fifty years than in the centuries since it was written.