- Fiends of the Eastern Front
"Fiends of the Eastern Front" was a "2000 AD" comic strip, created by
Gerry Finley-Day andCarlos Ezquerra . The series mixedvampire s into the general horror of the Eastern front. The characters also appeared in other series withJudge Dredd andDurham Red when sinister vampiric figures were needed.Plot
A diary found with an unearthed skeleton casts new light on a lost piece of history from
World War II . It belongs to a young German soldier who was stationed on the Eastern Front who fought alongside a group of Romanian soldiers who always fight at night. Their true nature is soon revealed and when they change sides all Hell breaks loose.Characters
= German =* Hans Schmitt - The main
Protagonist
* Karl Mueller - Han's friend
*Inspector Brandt - Apolice officer in1980 Germany
= Russian =* The
Rabbi - An unnamed rabbi who performs theritual
* TheGolem - Created by the Rabbi to destroy Costanza and his Vampyr
* Jesf Charnosov - A member of "SMERT KROFPEET
= The Vampyr (Blood Pack) =* Hauptmann Costanza -
Vampire leader
**Colonel Grant"' - An alias of Costanza's
*Corporal Gorgo - Costanza's chiefLieutenant
* Corporal Cringu - Costanza's loyalthrall
* Fourteen other unamed Vampyr followersBibliography
They have appeared in their own series (the original run being released as a graphic novel by Rebellion in June 2006 and a new series starting to coincide with this) as well as cropping up elsewhere and now feature in a series of novels.
Comics
*"Fiends of the Eastern Front":
** "Fiends of the Eastern Front" (withGerry Finley-Day andCarlos Ezquerra , in "2000 AD" ~152-161, 1980 ISBN 1-904265-64-2)
** "Stalingrad" (withDavid Bishop and Colin MacNeil, in "Judge Dredd Megazine" #245-ongoing, 2006)
*"Judge Dredd ": "Helter Skelter" (withGarth Ennis ;Carlos Ezquerra (1-7, 10-12) andHenry Flint (8-9), in "2000 AD" #1250-1261, 2001)
*"The Scarlet Apocrypha ": "Red Menace" (withDan Abnett andCarlos Ezquerra , in "Judge Dredd Megazine " #4.17, 2002)Novels
Black Flame are releasing a series of novels based on the series all written byDavid Bishop :*"Fiends of the Eastern Front":
** "Fiends of the Eastern Front" (672 pages, February 2007, ISBN 1-84416-455-1) collects:
*** "Operation Vampyr" (December 2005 ISBN 1-84416-274-5)
*** "The Blood Red Army" (April 2006,, ISBN 1-84416-325-3)
*** "Twilight of the Dead" (August 2006, ISBN 1-84416-384-9)
** "Fiends of the Rising Sun" (July 2007, ISBN 1-84416-494-2)The novel "Fiends of the Rising Sun" deals with the same premise but with vampire samurai in the
Pacific War .ee also
*"American Gothic", another "2000 AD" story which features vampires
Other things that mix horror with the World Wars and/or feature
undead Nazis include:*The Keep
*The Bloody Red Baron
*Return to Castle Wolfenstein
*The Wolf's Hour
*Shock Waves
*Oasis of the Zombies
*Zombie Lake
*Deathwatch
*Hellsing
*The BunkerExternal links
* [http://www.2000adonline.com/?zone=thrill&page=profiles&choice=fiends 2000 AD page]
* [http://www.2000adreview.co.uk/reviews/extra/2006/trades/fiends/fiends-eastern-front.shtml Review of the trade paperback]
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