Scott Snyder tweeted that American Vampire 1976, a mini-series of nine issues that will close most of the characters' arcs and bring the plot to the present day, will not mark the final end of the franchise, and will in fact prepare a different terrain for when they return.
"It was in my initial pitch, when I pitched the series, that this would be the biggest arc that we did, and it would be the one that pretty much brings us up to the present. After this, we're going to do stories that take place in the present but harken back to the past and some that take place in the past isolated [from the main story]," said Snyder in an interview with CBR.
American Vampire 1976 finds Skinner Sweet working as a motorcycle stuntman with a death wish and Pearl Jones trying to stop the Tongue before it infiltrates the White House and provokes a global war. Snyder promised to bring together all the threads from the very first issue, including Dracula and the Council of Monsters, in a frenetic plot that includes disco and references to Evel Knievel.
American Vampire was originally created by Scott Snyder and illustrated by Rafael Albuquerque, with the first issues co-written with Stephen King. It tells the story of the United States from the perspective of the first American Vampires, a brand new species of bloodsuckers impervious to sunlight. The first arc span from 2010-2013, with a second published between 2014-2015. There were three spin-offs focused on the V.M.S., the vampire hunters of the saga: Survival of the Fittest, Lord of Nightmares, illustrated by Dustin Nguyen (who also created the variant cover for American Vampire 1976) and Long Road to Hell.
Written by Scott Snyder and illustrated by Rafael Albuquerque, American Vampire 1976 goes on sale on Oct. 20 from DC Black Label.