From Image comes Ghosted by Joshua Williamson, Goran Sudzuka and Miroslav Mrva, all of whom I am unfamiliar with. It stars Jackson Winters, a thief so cool that he ignores the brutality and violence of prison life, waiting for death to free him. To his surprise, he is freed (violently) by the absurdly wealthy Markus Schrecken who wants him to steal a ghost from an incredibly haunted house. He gathers a team of specialists, each with their own agenda and begins his preparation. One neat thing is his insistence that they search the house in the day time when the ghosts are "inactive". The book is moody, grim, satirical and glib. But the danger is real.
I think: as a mini series, it should be a good read but none of the characters come off as particularly likeable. If you like ghost stories, this is a very modern take on one.
Boom's Day Men by Matt Gagnon, Michael Alan Nelson and Brian Stelfreeze is just as dark but more action packed. David Reid is a Day Man, a human agent for a vampire clan. He handles their business while the sun is out. And he's very good at his job though he's new at it. There seems to be a détente between certain vampires and certain humans which makes some sense. But there is a war brewing but it's between vampire clans with their human employees caught in the middle.
I think: it's a different take on vampires and thankfully there is no teenage love here. But I doubt if there can be a sustained series of battles with vampire armies where a handful of humans can survive. But we'll see.
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