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"Get my suck on? Fuck, I'm a crackhead now. A slave to the vamp! A tweeker... fiending for crystal vamp!"

- Katie Carva

Supporting characters

 * Toombs

Organizations

 * Detroit Police Department

Locations

 * Michigan
 * Detroit
 * Detroit Medical Center
 * Grosse Pointe

Items

 * Chains
 * Pistol
 * Vampblade comics
 * Vampblades

Vehicles

 * Automobiles

Miscellaneous

 * Dismemberment
 * Hospital
 * Transformation

Notes & Trivia

 * Warning: This book contains one bad-ass blade wielding comic geek vs. swarms of terrifyingly grotesque heat-seeking monsters! Stay alert!


 * This issue shipped with multiple variant covers. The standard Winston Young cover also shipped with a risqu variant limited to 2,000 copies, which features Katie Carva's bare breasts. The standard cover was also released as an action figure variant that was limited to 1,500 copies. The risqu version of the action figure variant was limited to 2,000 copies. A clean "Booty" variant was produced and illustrated by Dennis Budd, and limited to 1,500 copies. A risqu "Cheesecake" variant, again featuring Katie's bare breasts was illustrated by Andrew Mangum and limited to 2,000 copies.


 * Marco Maccogni was the artist and inker on the epilogue portion of this issue only.


 * The events of this issue take place on the morning following Vampblade #3.


 * The Detroit PD detective makes reference to the "mobsters from the shop". He is referring to the gangsters who raided Comic Planet and killed its owner in Vampblade #1.


 * Katie Carva speaks about going "Leonidas" on the Glarkians. This is a reference to Leonidas of Sparta, who was the main protagonist of the 300 graphic novel by Frank Miller as well as the 2006 film adaptation. Katie also paraphrases lines of dialogue from the film.


 * When fighting the Glarkians in the basement of the Detroit Medical Center, Katie shouts "They shall not pass!" This is a rewording of a famous line of dialogue spoken by the wizard Gandalf in the book and film adaptation of The Fellowship of the Ring, which is part of the greater Lord of the Rings series by English author J.R.R. Tolkien.