I am blowing through a bunch of Morbius issues here because it’s my blog and I can do what I want. Across #5-9, Morbius looks for a cure, fights various monsters, eats criminals, etc. Then his enemy Simon Stroud hires a new character, Vic Slaughter, to kill him.
Morbius bites Slaughter, who re-emerges as a vampire.
On to the Doctor Strange issues, which weave through the Morbius issues and also have references to the Secret Defenders’ first arc.
Doctor Strange #51 is mostly a Rintrah solo story(!), which ends with him getting seriously injured and then…We don’t hear about it for a bit. Instead, we get a Morbius tie-in that starts in Morbius #9, which starts with a dream…
In his dreams he wants to vampire-ize Martine.
Hm. Kinda hot.
Morbius finds himself in a horror dream because he eats a junkie high on “jazz” and that makes him fall asleep. Which means Nightmare can enter his psyche, which in turn leads directly into a crossover with Doctor Strange, where he and Morbius team up against the dream villain. Surprisingly little happens and it takes several issues.
At one point, though, Nightmare “enters” Doctor Strange…
…Nightmare is excited to be in Dr. Strange’s body.
Remember at the top of this post when I said that Rintrah got hurt? No resolution or development of that plotine.
If this summary of these issues feels random and disconnected, it’s because that’s what the issues were like. They all kind of tie together, with cliffhangers and all, but if feels like a bunch of ideas all thrown at the wall. It’s not bad, it’s just disjointed.
Side note: Morbius sleeps in a tube.
With all deference to Anne Rice and the writers of the “Twilight” films, I do not, and have never, found anything whatsoever to be “hot” about vampirization, or the entire vampire experience. There is absolutely, to me, nothing “hot” about Morbius’ “hot dream” about vampirizing the poor, lovely, doomed Martine. This in-literature romanticization/over-romanticization of vampires is doing about as much good to the world as the ‘Hip-Hop’ culture is doing for Black America. Human beings are nothing to vampires except Happy-Meals on legs! We don’t DATE them, we don’t hit the sheets with them, we don’t go to the fucking Prom with them, we don’t “settle down” with them and raise families with them! Vampires exist for ONE and ONLY one purpose- to destroy Humanity!!! PERIOD!!! When the “Buffy the Vampire Slayer” storyline did their own version of the Dr. Strange “Montesi Formula” gimmick, Buffy strenuously objected on grounds that the vampire she had foolishly taken as her lover would be destroyed along with all the other vampires in existence, to which her sister-Slayer very correctly pointed out: “He a VAM-PYH-UH!!!! He SHOULD DIE!!!!!” Correct. Even Hannibal King correctly realized and accepted that when the Montesi Formula was implemented, he would die, as he SHOULD, as WELL. And that is ALL there is TO IT. Case CLOSED!!!