 IDW published the comic and Ben Templesmith provided the artwork.When Niles and his agent, Jon Levin, shopped the comic around again as a potential film adaptation, Niles found that the idea "went shockingly well," with Sam Raimi and Senator International picking up the property rights based on the original concept and Templesmith's unique mood and concepts for the vampires.According to Raimi, the potential project was "unlike the horror films of recent years".