Stephen King co-writing vampire comic book

Earlier today, regular reader and commenter, Casey, emailed me a link to a story that broke, announcing that Stephen King will be one of the writers on a new Vertigo comic series called American Vampire.  You can read all about it here, here, and here.  Unlike the other King comics, this will be original material as opposed to being derived from one of his earlier works.

Much like the awesome DC series, Trinity, each issue of this comic will feature two stories.  One will be written by short story writer, Scott Snyder and the other will be written by King himself.  

The articles all summarize King's portion of the five issue arc in a similar fashion, saying that it will focus on a murdering, bank robbing cowboy named Skinner Sweet who turns into a new breed of vampire.  Interestingly enough, Skinner doesn't fear the sun, and even gets his powers from it.  

The first issue is set to release in March of 2010.  

Something else of note is the nature in which King got signed on.  It turns out the author sent Mr. King a letter asking for a simple blurb to use for publicity.  King liked the idea and said he'd be willing to write a couple of issues, if Snyder was OK with it.  Snyder, of course, agreed.  Apparently, King was originally going to write two issues, but his story expanded to five.  

If you're a fan of Stephen King and comics (as I am) than it's a great time as there is certainly no shortage of Stephen King comics being released in the near future.  I, for one, am quite happy with this development.