Mike Baron played a card really early in his Punisher run--around the second issue, if I recall correctly--like Frank was going to bag it in, give up being the Punisher, retire somewhere. Seemed pretty unlikely then, seems pretty unlikely here too. From 1994, Blade: the Vampire Hunter #1, "Dark Visions" Written by Ian Edginton, pencils by Douglas H. Wheatley, inks by Chris Ivy.
After the (presumed) deaths of his teammates in the Nightstalkers, Blade was going to give the old normal life a try. In fact, I thought he was using his real name, but he gives it out as "Hannibal Francis Blade," after his lost friends. Still, in short order he's accosted by escaped lunatic Bible Bob, who tells Blade he's never going to be able to walk away from the life, and to that effect gives him a "witch's compass," knowing it will lead Blade back into action soon enough. Blade fights Thorne, a corporate raider type, now head of Varnae's vampire cult; who's up to all sorts of modernized vampire nonsense, like a "necrotech program" using "a chaos theory form of random analysis" for mystic events. Such as "the imminent return of that Carpathian leech, Count Dracula!"
Sure enough, a reporter working on the Nightstalkers story runs afoul of the resurrected Dracula, who appears briefly this issue, in a toga. They may have been trying to update him from his traditional Tomb of Dracula look, but I know they weren't quite to his current red armor look, which I can't stand.
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