![]() The irony is that, in the course of this response, The Strain has become a sort of infinite regression of pop media, starting with a trilogy of books by Guillermo del Toro and Chuck Hogan, which morphed into a comic series by David Lapham and Mike Huddleston, and in its most recent (and final?) iteration, rears its head as a television series on FX. The Strain is an aggressive response to the romanticized obsession with polite horror that has populated pop-culture over the past decade, the anti-Twilight and True Blood, as it replaces coifed, beautiful and sensual vampires involved in good-natured and saccharine violence, with visceral, brutal and unforgiving monsters, with a character-centric focus that highlights the gravitas of the vampires’ actions. Here’s what the last chapter of the series has to offer. The third installment of Dark Horse’s The Strain trilogy begins Wednesday 8/20. ![]()
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