Dracula sucks the life out of this series. Kidding, but … This title ends with a big vampire story. Dracula and an army of vampires invade the UK, and helping them is no less than Victor Von Doom.
There are similarities to Secret Invasion, but this is done so much better. As MI:13 begin to realize that there are Vampires among them, Dracula’s servants kidnap Faiza’s father and exercise mind control over Spitfire–who now has some vampire blood in her.
A new Baron Blood is part of Drac’s army. He won’t last long.
The Spitfire piece is excellent–it turns out in the end that she was not under Dracula’s control and instead led him (and us as readers) to believe that his invasion was successful, while in reality she works against him as a double agent, enabling her teammates to break through Drac’s defenses. The misdirection provides fodder for a whole “fake” storyline where Dracula is able to kill several British heroes. It’s fun, but has no lasting consequence because, again, it’s a fake-out.
Blade is written really well here, too, which doesn’t happen that often.
The big turning point happens when Dracula takes Captain Britain’s wife, Meggan. But she, too, is capable of shrugging off Drac’s control–and signals her location to her husband…
And he brings with him a new army, the Special Air Service.
British heroes. Cool. Some of these characters have only appeared in Marvel’s UK publishing line–this folds them into Earth 616 continuity for the first time.
Blade gets to slay Baron Blood, while Faiza kills Dracula…
But we know how that goes–I expect Drac will be back.
There’s lots of twists in this story–it’s incredibly well thought-out. In the end, we have Meggan reunited with Captain Britain.
Faiza is the new wielder of the sword Excalibur, and takes on the new codename “Excalibur.” This means there’s yet another reason to ignore Dane “Black Knight” Whitman, but his consolation prize is that he hooks up with her.
And Spitfire and Blade end up being a couple as well–both having part-vampire blood.