Also to see the look Dracula is wearing right now but 15 years before, look around for “Blade The Vampire Hunter” series of 1994. It has it all. the ponytail, the bat cape, the long fingernails….indeed, the look today is not an original idea. Shame on you Marvel, shame on you.

1) I, in my humble vampire hunter condition resurrected all the friggin vampires in the Marvel Universe in my last comic collection (Blade, not Captain Britain) with Drac and daddy help (yes, my dad; it sounds kinda crazy but you need to read it)

2)Plus Old Daddy Fangs (a.k.a Dracula) got that Underworld rejected look BEFORE our battle in San Francisco, in a nasty antediluvian ritual that transformed him in a vampire demigod…
you need to read that too.

3) Finally, I, Blade declare that Janus, son of Dracula looks a lot like the vampire in the image. So, let’s start to sharp those stakes……

It’s just a craze much like the 90s had the word Death in every characters name and blood this and blood that. I can’t wait till 2020 when mainstream comics get good again.

2nd,Vampires as currently constructed are nothing but a mere nuisance. Hence why Dracula at his height of power; never really did much. Even the X-men handled him quite well.

Vampires since then have progressed in varying degrees. I feel that if you want a vampire that can be a true force in Marvel for good or bad. You would have to look at World of Darkness from the mid to late 1990′s. They had numerous clans and powers that ranged from weak to godlike.

If you were to make a character comparable to an antediluvian vampire. then you could have an enemy that would challenge the biggest and the best easily. vampires that can command shadows,turn into a giant snake,use blood magic,meld with properties of the earth. so much possibility.

http://www.comicartfans.com/GalleryDetail.asp?GCat=727

Marie Laveau resurrected Varnae (the original Vampire and Dracula’s “father”) with the Vampire Verses found in the Darkhold. It took years for the legion to reform.

and if this storyline unfolds without dealing with Blade at all, I am going to launch a public protest..

Unless bendis is writing it, then it’s the Sentry.

OMG Thank you! I thought I was the only one that remembered this storyline. All of this vampire shite has been bugging the hell out of me for that major reason.

I suppose my biggest gripe was because Gischler’s garbage completely flew in the face of ALL of Marvel’s previous Dracula storylines but also essentially said “Ignore what was done with vampires in the last few issues of the Captain Britain and MI-13 series, because we at Marvel certainly have.”

If Marvel thought there were too many mutants running around to justify “Decimation” in the aftermath of “House of M,” I’d LOVE for them to explain why there are so many freakin’ vampires running around the MU. (That “Death of Dracula” one-shot seemed to have more vamps in it than had appeared in the WHOLE “Tomb of Dracula” series from the 1970s, plus the B&W magazine that followed, and all the vamps that appeared until Dr Strange destroyed them all with the Montesi Formula.)