History ComicBook / AmericanVampire

* RoaringRampageofRevenge: Skinner and Pearl both go on these, against their enemies. [[spoiler: Hattie's also started one, against Pearl.]]

* RewardedAsATraitorDeserves: After selling out the VSS and setting everyone up to die, [[spoiler: Bixby finds himself attacked by the Trader's people. He begs that "remember all I've done!" and they sneer "We'll remember it...always" before eating him.]]

* FlatEarthAtheist: It seems Lyndon Johnson was one. The VSS had been operating for the U.S. government for decades and had plenty of records and evidence of the existence of vampires. But after Johnson became President, he completely refused to believe in the existence of the supernatural, considered the VSS just a crackpot waste and shut them down.

* ObstructiveBureaucrat: What ultimately destroys the VSS is not vampires. Rather it's after John F. Kennedy was killed and Lyndon Johnson refused to accept the existence of vampires and so shut the VSS down just as they were about to take down the Gray Trader.

* GoodPeopleHaveGoodSex: Pearl and Henry have one hell of a sex life that doesn't seem to remotely diminish as he ages.

** The only exception seen was the couple in ''Long Road to Hell'' - they try desperately to hold on to their humanity and love for each other, but within a few days of being turned into Carpathians they've almost gone mad with bloodthirst. They attempt to find a cure and to only feed on "bad" people, [[spoiler:but in the end they allow Travis Kidd to MercyKill them rather than go on living that way.]]

The comic is written in arcs, each set in a different time period and locale. The first arc follows Pearl Jones, a girl struggling to make it big in Hollywood in the [[TheRoaringTwenties 1920s]]. The second arc follows Cashell [=McCorgan=], a police officer during TheGreatDepression. The third arc follows Henry Preston joining a team of Vassals of the Morning Star agents to investigate rumors of vampires in the Japanese islands, against the backdrop of UsefulNotes/WorldWarII. The fourth arc follows Travis Kidd, a young rockabilly vampire hunter in the 1950s as he crosses paths with the Vassals. The fifth arc beginning in April will follow one of the survivors of the Taipan mission who has now become a vampire. The sixth arc reunites Pearl Jones and Skinner Sweet in 1950s Hollywood, during the Red Scare.

* EqualOpportunityEvil: The Nazis have vampires among their ranks, though it has more to do with [[NotSoDifferent sharing similar supremacist beliefs]].

* ''American Vampire 1976'' (2020-)

* UsefulNotes/{{Hollywood}}: Pearl starts out as an actress trying to work her way up in the movie biz...[[spoiler: until she gets invited to the ''wrong'' party...]] Funnily enough, she ends up going back there in TheFifties as her cover.

Thus far, there are also two mini-series, the first following Cashell and Felicia Book in Europe during UsefulNotes/WW2, and a second that follows Felicia some time after as she aims to FightDracula.

The series started in May, 2010. Winner of the 2011 Eisner Award for [[http://www.comicsalliance.com/2011/07/23/comic-con-eisner-award-winners-2011/ Best new series.]]

* OurGargoylesRock: Brun in "Dark Moon" is of a species that is the origin of the gargoyle myth. Their skin toughens and gardens in the sun, causing them to sit for a very long time.

* BeethovenWasAnAlienSpy: Creator/HarryHoudini and CreatorHPLovecraft made use of an ApoccalypticLog linked to [[spoiler:the Gray Trader]].

* ButtMonkey: The Romanian Vampires have this as their hat, though they do [[AlwaysChaoticEvil deserve it]]. Not only are they the easiest of all vampires to kill (with a weakness to sunlight and wood), but they keep siring random people and creating stronger bloodlines than them. It's definitely ironic that they think of themselves as [[SmugSnake the superior species]].

* TheChosenOne: One of [[spoiler: The Ancients in ''Survival of the Fittest'' says this to Felicia in its language before she escapes]].