Tomb of Dracula #53: Where The Plots End And A New Reader Is Forgotten About

Tomb of Dracula #53 by Marv Wolfman and Gene Colan (November 1976).
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[@aldinbaroza9640]

Sticky Fingaz. I see what you did there.

[@SonofNimrodIdiot]

Could've gone with Mahershala Ali but I don't think that movie is ever going to get made.

[@robert2430]

Surprised they didn’t do more crossovers with regular Marvel more. The Doctor Strange story is arguably the best known for a reason. They could have done more with Son of Satan and Ghost Rider and so on. But this is like Conan in some ways. It’s an excuse for the creators who may not particularly love doing superhero stuff to get to do something else.

[@SonofNimrodIdiot]

Dracula vs. Circus of Crime.

[@MrPatrickAnonymous]

I'm in! Marvel, take my money!

[@markshulusky6680]

Have you read the Son of Satan appearance in Howard the Duck? He's not played for laughs. Steve Gerber treats it so that it is a credible, in cannon, appearance. Issues 13 and 14, I think.

[@SonofNimrodIdiot]

I know of them and have wearily avoided them. The day I commit to Howard the Duck comics is something I fear.

[@markshulusky6680]

I'm not an HTD fan either, but Gerber did write the SOS series in Marvel Spotlight and he knew the character. If you read around the parts you may not like it's a solid appearance(Hellstrom's darksoul leaves his body and possesses Howard. It's a significant event in Daimon's story and his response/reactions are written to give some expanded insight into the character).

[@SonofNimrodIdiot]

I know but... Howard the Duck, you know? Like it's a bridge I've not crossed yet and once I get an actual issue Howard the Duck, I can never go back. I can never be innocent again.

[@darthknight1]

I read Tomb of Dracula as recently as 4 years ago and I have already largely forgotten most of it. That's because Marv gave up on the supporting characters and it just became a Dracula wanders from town to town title like Bruce Banner after a while. Nothing left to care about as a reader. They also never address what it is that Dracula actually wants or how he wants to achieve it. It's just meandering and phoned in. No real guts. I got really frustrated with how much it went off the rails from having a group of Dracula hunters, into a nothing book.

[@SonofNimrodIdiot]

Does Dracula need motivation? He's an absolute evil, fuelled by a thirst for blood. He's not Lex Luthor, if he was he'd probably be an original character instead of derived from one people are already familiar with as a figure of evil. But then there's doppelganger army shit so any thought goes out the window.

[@darthknight1]

@@SonofNimrodIdiot Every villain needs motivation. And Dracula had it in Bram Stoker's books and began with it in Tomb of Dracula. He was expanding his horizons beyond Transylvania, his relationship with the wider vampiric world, and domination of humanity. This, along with any wider vampiric lore is mostly absent or abandoned in the Tomb series. Any questions we have as an interested reader are left unexplored. I wrote a minor essay on how much the title failed its readers, somewhere in a notebook.

[@SonofNimrodIdiot]

In pencil? Like a diary? If you become a shooter or a serial killer, they'll look at those notebooks and they'll think your Tomb of Dracula critique is a manifesto.