What better way for the DC Universe to get into spirit for the Halloween season than the launch of the six-issue, Tom Mandrake-illustrated miniseries entitled “Superman and Batman vs. Vampires and Werewolves,” with the first two issues slated for October 15 and October 29, respectively.

VanHook ended up on the new Superman/Batman project after his long-time friend Jimmy Palmiotti introduced him to DCU Executive Editor Dan DiDio last year at Wizard World in Los Angeles. “I mentioned that I was thinking of getting my hand back into comics again and one thing led to another,” VanHook told CBR News. “I was all prepared to explain to Dan that I was a filmmaker now and that I used to write and draw comics, I had co-created Bloodshot, etc. and he stopped me. He used to read my books and he’d pretty much seen all of my movies. It was flattering and cool. Here was a guy that I respected and he knew my stuff. Because of my association with horror, that was the automatic thing to talk about.

VanHook is thrilled to be having his worlds collide as the writer of a horror comic featuring the World’s Finest. “Superman was the first comic I bought. I was eight years old and he fought a character called the Chameleon,” VanHook recalled. “The first Batman stuff I had was the ‘Treasury Edition’ of Denny O’Neil and Neal Adams’ Ra’s Al Ghul stories — beautiful work. They played up the Detective stuff and that’s something I’m very much dealing with in this story.”

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