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COVERT VAMPIRIC OPERATIONS

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Full Name: Covert Vampiric Operations
Codename: CVO
Nationality: American
Organization: CVO
Occupation Agency

Creator: Alex Garner
Time Span: 2003 - 2011

ABOUT THE SERIES

Covert Vampiric Operations is a top secret department in the CIA.

As we are told in a short Wiki entry on this group, it is an "organization of humans, vampires, zombies, and assorted other beings that defends Earth against magical forces. They use a combination of guns and magical technology known as Artillica to fight supernatural forces, though mostly they seem to find themselves up against zombies. Their base is called CVO Coffin HQ".

Additionally, another source {Monster Girls wiki] tells us that "its members [are] the best, brightest, and deadest in America. They have stopped dangers up to and including the entire planet being devoured by an extra-dimensional zombie plague".

And finally, from a promo for the group we learn "American intelligence services have a secret weapon - and it has fangs! ... the CVO - vampire operatives who spy for the United States, dealing with the most dangerous global threats."

The team members are:

Overmars - CVO director, and a vampire, who has a no-nonsense approach to everything. As he tells a higher-up in the CIA, he and his people will "do what we do best... spy, steal, and kill, kill, kill..."
Stephen Cross - vampire team leader.
Bools - a youngish looking, wise-cracking vampire field agent who enjoys pointy hair. He also has a nasty alien-technology knife that does other things besides cut.
Britt - ex-super-model vampire field agent who was also a zombie before she became a vampire.
Yumiko - a shape-shifting field agent who can morph between human and reptilian forms.
Benny - Zombie Artillica-Smith, a former human turned zombie, he is the head of research for the group.
Nikodemus - Demon consultant to the Director.

Good Lines:
- Said by Cross about his missions, "I just go where they send me and try not to think about it too much."

BOOKS

Number of Books:1
First Appearance:2011
Last Appearance:2011

1 Infestation - CVO: Covert Vampiric Operations Infestation - CVO: Covert Vampiric Operations
Written by Alex Garner
Copyright: 2011

Featured in this 100 Page Spectacular are 4 graphic adventures or
2 full stories and parts of 2 others as follows;
Covert Vampiric Operations - 1st Story (full) - Pg. 1 - Pg. 45
African Blood - 5th Story (Part 2 Only) - Pg. 46 -Pg. 70
Kiss Of The Vamp - 6th Story (full) - Pg. 71 - Pg. 77
Rogue State - 4th Story (Part 5 Only) - Pg. 78 - Pg. 100

COMIC BOOKS, GRAPHIC NOVELS, AND MANGA

Number of Stories:6
First Appearance:2003
Last Appearance:2011

1 Covert Vampiric Operations Covert Vampiric Operations
Published by IDW Publishing
Contributors: Alex Garner (writer), Mindy Lee (pencils), Saleem Crawford (inks), Dan Norton (inks), Javier Mena (colors), Oscar Escamilla (colors), Robbie Robbins (letters)
Copyright:

"General Malodor, a tyrant with a taste for destruction, has procured Russian nukes along with a way to deliver them. It's time for the U.S. government to call in its very heaviest hitters: the top-secret group known as CVO! Follow vampire agents Cross, Bools, and Britt as they use their supernatural powers to avert nuclear disaster... and come face-to-face with a powerful demon in the process!"

2 Artifact Artifact
Published by IDW Publishing
Contributors: Jeff Mariotte (writer), Gabriel Hernandez Walta (pencils, inks, color), Robbie Robbins (letters)
Copyright: 2003

Told in 3 issues, October - December 1003/
" An incredibly ancient artifact and a disappearing colleague lead the CVO team towards an encounter with a deadly trio!"
"When the CIA's vampire agents face a deadly threat from the ashes of the old Soviet Union, they find allies in the unlikeliest place-their own Russian counterparts!"
"American vampires working for the CIA battle alongside their Russian counterparts for possession of an ancient, incredibly powerful artifact with the potential to change the global power structure."

3 Human Touch Human Touch
Published by IDW Publishing
Contributors: Jeff Mariotte (writer), Gabriel Hernandez Walta (pencils, inks, color), Robbie Robbins (letters)
Copyright: 2004

North Korea has hidden a hush-hush nuclear-bomb research facility in Outer Mongolia. It falls to a CVO, humans and vampires, to find and remove it without anyone else knowing about it. One of the human soldiers realizes that if the vampires were sent on this mission, something very nasty had to be guarding the plant.

4 Rogue State Rogue State
Published by IDW Publishing
Contributors: Jeff Mariotte (writer), Antonio Vazquez (pencils & inks), Fran Gamboa (colors), Tom B. Long (letters)
Copyright: 2004

Told in 5 issues, November 2004 - March 2005.
"When a mole in CVO exposes the whole organization to danger, things look bad for America’s first line of supernatural defense against growing global threats. With fellow agents being killed all around them, The vampire spies of CVO may find themselves out in the cold."

5 Afrikan Blood Afrikan Blood
Published by IDW Publishing
Contributors: El Tores (writer), Luis Czerniawski (pencils & inks), Fran Gamboa (colors), J. C. Ruiz (letters)
Copyright: 2006

Told in 4 issues, September 2006 - May 2007.
"CVO, the top-secret CIA covert ops squad of Vampire agents, is sent to Ethiopia to track down a dangerous arms dealer, specializing in powerful artillica artifacts, the kind that even affect the super natural CVO team. And as the team is about to discover, the horn of Africa may be the least hospitable place on Earth for a crew of the nocturnal, but the terror they face there is just the beginning. Old partners, crossed allegiances, and high-flying valor will all play a part before the mission ends."

6 Kiss Of The Vamp Kiss Of The Vamp
Published by IDW Publishing
Contributors: Alex Garner (writer and artist)
Copyright: 2011

Printed in Infestation - CVO: Covert Vampiric Operations, April 2011.
A solo adventure with Britt. When heavily-armed masked intruders break into a top secret National Security Agency facility, Britt shows up to stop them in her own, unique, ever-so-efficient manner.

MY COMMENTS

I cannot help myself but ever since I was a teenager and got hooked on Christopher Lee's Dracula movies as well as Jonathan Frid's Barnabas Collins, I have dug vampire stories. Over the years I have a grunch of them.

And, of course, I am a major spy-fi fan. So, put the two together, I am in!

Especially when these stories are as well crafted - excellent writing and terrific artwork - as the CVO tales.

I had not heard of this series until a frequent contributor brought them to me but I have sure enjoyed making up for lost time!!

GRADE

My Grade: B+

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