Move over K.C. and the Moonlight Band.
Say goodnight, Earth Blood and Fire.
You're through, Type-B Gees.
She'll shake her groove fang and take you to Vampytown.
She's Sheba Sugarfangs.
Thanks to Christopher Sequeira and Sana Takeda's "I'm Gonna Stake You, Sucka" story in X-Men: Curse of the Mutants - X-Men vs. Vampires #1 (2010)
Here is Xarus, son of Dracula, and prime mover of the current Death of Dracula series, brought to you by Victor Gischler and Giuseppe Camuncoli. (Uh, in case you can't tell, he's on the left, below:)
This one was a bit harder to notice at first. He's the brother of Janus, who had actually been introduced as the son of Dracula way back in the Tomb of Dracula series in 1976. (Something about Dracula wanting a son so that he could use the Church of Satan help him rule the world, but ended up bonding with an angelic enemy of Dracula and thus becoming the Golden Angel.)
But Xarus? He's all new. Still, with an immortal monster like Dracula, there's bound to be some progeny out there already and it would be relatively easy to introduce him with just a walk-on appearance, like he did in Death of Dracula #1. Plus, he's got a cool "X" name that will make it convenient to become an X-Men villain when they have their big vampire crossover this summer.
When you put Xarus together with the string of progeny characters appearing lately, however, it's yet another lamentable sign of an unfortunate trend. So stop having babies, Dracula! Sheesh.
Super-Villain Team-Up!
Haven:t had one of these for a while, so let:s check in with the possible pairings of villainous doings in the Marvelous universe.
How about the Lord of the Vampires with the Witch of the Serpent Crown?
Dracula, Lord of the Vampires, is soon to make a big comeback in (of all places) the X-Men titles. The Serpent Crown seems to be making a comeback (or at least, serving as inspiration) in the Secret Avengers book. So why not see if Dracula and Nagala (a witch from Atlantis who has rather close ties to the Serpent Crown) could team-up for even more trouble?
I:d imagine that it would cause a lot of trouble for Namor, the Sub-Mariner, if Dracula and vampires descended upon Atlantis. Perhaps Nagala,under the evil influence of the crown, serves as a magnet for the evil of Dracula. Perhaps Dracula, without the need to really breathe, will find Atlantis a ready source of meals and without the defenses that the surface world has from it:s long mythological history.That:s perfectly in line with Nagala:s goals of chaos and destruction.
And, of course, we:d have to have a line about "tasting fishy" somewhere along the line...
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