Publisher: Image Comics Writer: Donny Cates Artwork: Lisandro Estherren, Dee Cunniffe (colours) Release Date: 19th April 2017 The Bowmans are your typical Texans.  With three generations of the same family living in a cabin in a small town, they pretty much keep themselves to themselves, quietly running the local BBQ joint and doing their best to stay out of trouble.  Oh, and they’re also Vampires, living on a mixture of cow’s blood and paint thinner to try and keep their blood-sucking urges under control for the rest of their unending lives. What’s perhaps most interesting about this new Image Comics series is Writer Donny Cates’ matter-of-fact delivery of the central premise.  Rather than some convoluted, elaborate reveal, the fact that the Bowman family are vampires is explained by the second panel as we quickly move past that to focus on the characters themselves.  The interactions between the different family members – siblings Seamus, Greg, Slap and Perry, their father JV and their gruff, wordly uncle Bartlett – feel genuinely authentic throughout, and much like Cates’ work on God Country, it’s the characters rather than the story that really helps this series to resonate. This first issue does a stellar job [...]