I just picked up a dollar copy of this one, and opened it up...directly to that page, like it was cursed. From 1992,
Tomb of Dracula #4, written by Marv Wolfman, pencils by Gene Colan, inks by Al Williamson.
And of course, I wasn't positive I had even read this, but sure enough, there's an old post from 2018 with the
first issue; where I indicate I was missing the second issue. Without having the other issues next to me, I think Drac was dabbling in psychic power here, and while he had an army of zombies at his command, he looked like crap, dead and rotting. Blade guest-stars, but closer to his loose-cannon characterization of the original series: he's willing to do just about anything to kill Dracula, and isn't taking no for an answer. There were also a few new supporting characters, that Wolfman may have been trying to seed for later use; but where do you go after Dracula? Anything else would be a comedown.
I had to go back and re-read that previous post to catch up, but oooof, poor Rachel. She was certainly further proof of just how cursed the Van Helsing name was as far as it being an absolute guarantee of how hard of a life anyone having that name would have.
ReplyDeleteI’m pretty sure Wolfman wasn’t expecting to be as prophetic as he wound up inadvertently being with this particular issue, as there’s very little, if any, obvious difference between Dracula leading an army of zombies invading the capital and what Trump did basically doing the same thing with his followers.