Vampirella Armageddon #5

History

Vampirella: Armageddon is the third consecutive Sepulcher City series from writer Tom Sniegoski and artist Kewber Baal, picking up directly where Vampirella Strikes! left off and escalating the cosmological scope of their shared run. Sniegoski, a prolific comics writer whose credits include Batman, Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Hellboy, and a prequel to Jeff Smith's Bone — the only outside writer Smith has permitted to work on those characters — has described returning to Vampirella as instinctive and natural, reflecting years of accumulated fluency with the character and her world. Interior colors throughout the run are provided by Omi Remalante Jr., whose palette anchors Baal's dense, high-contrast linework in a post-apocalyptic atmosphere that critics noted blends traditional horror registers with science-fantasy world-building.

Trivia · 8 facts

• Written by Tom Sniegoski with interior art by Kewber Baal; published by Dynamite Entertainment on November 12, 2025.
• The issue is the fifth chapter of the Vampirella: Armageddon series (2025), which launched in July 2025 as a direct sequel to Vampirella Strikes!
• Central plot: Vampirella and her companion Walker — introduced in Armageddon #3 as a denizen of the underworld who also went by the name Cain — are caught between two warring factions in Hell: the Drujh and the Legions of the Shroud.
• Walker/Cain is a significant new addition to Vampirella's supporting cast, introduced earlier in the Armageddon run as a figure she encountered in a previous life, giving the series a biblical mythological dimension.
• Cover art for the issue was provided by Francesco Mattina (Cover A), Lesley 'Leirix' Li (Cover B), Joseph Michael Linsner (Cover C), cosplay by Lauren DeLorean (Cover D), with additional retailer incentive virgin variants at 1:10 and 1:15 ratios.
• The series is set in Sepulcher City, a future post-apocalyptic urban environment shared by humans and supernatural creatures, with Vampirella functioning as a private investigator and protector of that community.
• The Armageddon series later introduces Dark Vampirella (in issue #8) and a guest appearance by God himself, suggesting #5's Hell-war plot is a structural bridge to those larger revelations.
• Dynamite's Previews catalog for this series was featured on the front cover of the May 2025 Diamond Comics distributor catalog, indicating the publisher's flagship promotional positioning for the Armageddon launch.

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