DRACULA: LORD OF THE UNDEAD #1-3 (1998-1999)

Dracula returns to his castle home inTransylvania. (Wait, didn’t that blow up when his Tomb of Dracula comic ended?).

Once home, he sees that his castle has been looted and begins hunting down the stolen goods (specifically, a portrait of his human wife, Maria).

Meanwhile, a scientist has invented a serum that basically is like antibuse for vampires–when they suck blood, they throw up. But the side effect of the serum is that people who get bit by an immunized vampire contract a highly contagious, fatal virus. An entire town is put in quarantine.

A town locked up is a town fresh for feeding, so this is where the storylines intersect. Dracula goes to eat people in lockdown and the scientist tries to figure a cure for the virus he inadvertently created.

They meet, Dracula forces the scientist to take him to see the man who commissioned the serum, and finds Lilith. Conveniently, she also stole his stuff from his castle. Turns out, she was upset with him because she was resurrected when he was resurrected, as a result of the vampire curse, and she just wanted to stay dead.

They work through their Father/Daughter issues. Dracula destroys the factory and all recordings of how to make the serum and burns down the quarantined town–wiping out both the serum and the virus.

The story ends with Dracula amused that his desire to protect vampires from the serum also saved humanity from the virus.

This was the best Dracula series since the first volume of Tomb ended.

We needed Drac to stop COVID-19!

1 thought on “DRACULA: LORD OF THE UNDEAD #1-3 (1998-1999)”

  1. This LOOKS good! I regret having missed this the first time around! I will have to look for it at the back-issue stores! I enjoy the little patriarchal dynamic between Drac and Lilith- “I HATE you, you bloodsucking BASTARD!!!!” “DIE, you ungrateful, little CUNT!!!!!” It would not surprise me at all to discover that they actually love each other at least a little bit, deep down, underneath it all- like a lot of relatives, it’s possible that they just enjoy busting each other’s balls! It’s their family “thing”, kinda like Daimon and Satana- well, they’re evil people, and, in spite of all their animosity, I have, nevertheless, detected a bit of fatherly pride for his little girl on Drac’s part. Is it possible that the ol’ guy could still have a heart under there, in spite of all the thousands of times that heart has been impaled-??!

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