Is there really honor among thieves?

Ok, now I want to see these two fight. REAL BAD!!!!!

Like hardcore violent, with lots of gore and blood.

Place your bets with my official bet-taker, Pete F'N Rose......

So, Who Would Win?: Dracula VS. Morbius The Living Vampire

TGIT!!!!!!



I know, I know, Halloween's over and has been for a week or so.
But this particular match-up really intrigued me.
I'm talking about Morbius the Living Vampire versus the MU's version of Dracula.

To my knowledge, these two have never faced off before or even met before, despite the seemingly inevitability of the whole thing.
Which is really weird since when has Marvel ever really not taken advantage of such an obvious money-making match-up before?


But don't worry fearless readers, because yours truly, Mr. Morbid, plans on righting that wrong, and laying out for you a nice scenario for you on how and why these two should not only meet, but pound it out in the classic comic time-honored tradition of this Halloween Hangover edition of So, Who Would Win?

First, let's put these in perspective as far as just how powerful these two are.

Dracula in the MU, has gone toe-to-toe with some of Marvel's most popular heroes, and has pretty much beaten them all.

Don't believe me, let's look at a quick list of heroes he's pwned:

-Dr. Strange

- The Uncanny X-Men

-Spider-Man


-The Silver Surfer( yes, even someone as powerful as the Silver Surfer)


-Blade

So, yeah, Dracula's not someone you wanna' fuck with.

Morbius's is no slouch either though. While he may not have racked up an impressive list of victories like Dracula has, he's still gone up against his share of popular MU characters as well and lived to tell about it.

- Spider-Man

- Blade

- Dr. Strange

- Venom

- Carnage

So, yeah, Morbius ain't no one to be fucked with either.

Also, lets take a quick look at each participant's strengths and weaknesses:

Dracula:

• Incredible super-strength
• An amazingly productive healing factor
• Can control people and animals
• Immortal
• Flight 
• Can turn into mist, animals, and other things
• Super fast and agile
• Can control the weather
• Master strategist
• Super-resistant to conventional injury and diseases
• Can be harmed by wooden stakes, beheading, silver, garlic, sunlight
• Needs blood to survive
• Weak during sunlight hours
• Can be harmed and destroyed by a Darkhold spell known as the Montesi Formula.

Morbius:

• Super-strength
• Flight
• Enhanced speed and agility
• Can fight in sunlight but still has an aversion to it
• Mind-control 
• Shape-change
• has no weakness to traditionally known Vampire deterrents such as silver, garlic, or religious objects.
• Scientifically super-smart
• Limited Healing Factor

So here's my ideal scenario:

In a small but modern enough European village, Morbius has heard of a nearby resident scientist that's made huge strides in the particular areas of science and medicine that could possibly produce a cure for Morbius's condition.

Unfortunately for Morbie, Dracula too has sought out the attractive and famous scientist, intending to turn her in order for her to work for him.

This is in direct conflict with Morbius's needs, and the two run into each other just as Dracula has entranced and seduced the beautiful women into giving him her neck for a tasty bite.

Dracula's not too happy about being interrupted, especially by a being like Morbius, who he looks upon with disgust. After all, Morbius isn't a true vampire, just a pathetic pretender in name only, since Morbius's origins are more science than supernatural.

The two lock eyes and size each other up for what seems like an eternity, while the poor scientist is carelessly tossed aside like discarded paper floating in a breeze.

"You, foul beast. Pathetic pretender. How dare you besmirch the revered name Vampyre!

You are an affront to my kind that has been allowed to walk this world for too long.

For that, and for interfering in my affairs, you have earned my ire....and my wrath!"

"When you're done preening and posturing, oh lord of the vampires, I'm ready to finally to put you out of your misery."

"You fool! it is YOU who shall finally be delivered from your cursed existence! Not out of mercy for you, but mercy for my eyes so that I shall never have to see or hear of you again."

 "Enough talk! I hunger! And you're in my way....."

So, 

Dracula, Lord of the Vampires

VS.

Morbius, The Living Vampire

Who Wins and why?

"Demons of Denak....No!"

Hey everybody. Miss me? Well my computer, which has needed to be cleaned up anyway, had a gazillion viruses on it, and had to be taken to the computer repairmen to be fixed. It was so bad, that the whole c-drive had to be completely erased! So basically Heather and I are starting over from scratch, trying to work the bugs out and all. We still haven't re-intalled everything, and while we did back-up a majority of programs, I think my Paint.net program is gone. This was my go to poor man's version of Adobe Photoshop I've used to make the skits and strips you all love so much. I don't know when everything will be fixed up, probably by the end of the week, so please bear with me as I sort shit out. This has really sucked ass for me, because my streak of contiunous posts has been broken. Don't worry though, I'll get back on the saddle again.

So, since I can't post new skits/strips, what's left to contribute to this humble blog? RANDOM COMIC REVIEW.....REVIEW.....REVIEW......

Is there an echo in here? Anyway, here's my contribution for today's post:

The Tomb of Dracula: Lord of the Vampires#44

Yes folks, as you can clearly see from the cover, Dracula battles Dr.Strange. I think this is the first official battles between the two; it certainly seems like it from the way they talk to each other. They would go on to fight each other again and again in other titles, until Dr.Strange used the magic book, The Darkhold, to kill every vampire on Earth. Of course, as we all know, that didn't last long, and Dracula and his crew have since returned in the pages of the X-Men. In case you didn't know, Dracula's had his share of run-ins with the X-Men before. In Uncanny X-Men#159-160, and again in UXM Annual#6. I myself only have UXM#159, and might review that particular issue some day.

Back to the review......

We start off with Dr.Strange looking intently and solemnly at a crystal orb. Seems he can't find his manservant Wong, and he's really worried. His worries are justified when he discovers that Wong's dead. Using the Eye of Agamotto to keep Wong in a form of suspended animation, Dr.Strange uses his astral self to peer inside Wong's mind to discover what happened. It appears that Wong interrupted Dracula while he was enjoying a late night's snack, and Dracula decided to teach Wong a lesson. Hey I can't say I blame the guy. I mean who doesn't hate to be bothered while trying to eat right? It's just plain rude! The sight of the savage attack on Wong causes Strange to leave Wong's mind and return to his own body. With this, Strange goes on to get revenge for Wong and fight Dracula. The story then goes to the offices of Midnight Publishing Co., where the readers are treated to the love story between love-sick writer Harold and the traget of his affections, Aurora Rabinowitz. Yeah, since I'm not a regular reader of this series I don't get why they're here in this story, but they are. Basically hot-looking Aurora is being asked out by nerdy Harold. Yeah, you know where this is going......Harold wants to know why Aurora isn't returning his calls, and Aurora let's him down easy. Well, not that easy. Here's how it went:
"Harold, you're a really nice, sweet person"
Wait for it........
"And poor little me should be flattered that a big-time writer like you thinks I'm ravishingly cute....
And here it comes.....
"But, frankly, Harold, I think you're a nerd!"
What a way to let a guy down huh? At least she's honest, but still, damn that's cold!
Anyway, the reader's attention is lead away to a creepy, old man stalking Dracula outside his then new home; his old now dead enemy, Dr.Sun's mansion. The old man reveals he has fangs too, and takes off to fight Dracula another day. Dracula is inside, trashing some computer monitors and other equipment. He does all this while go off on a triade that "Dracula still lives to fight another day, another foe", and stuff like that. That's just like old people who don't understand modern technology to just go and trash it physically and verbally. Oh yeah, and Blade's in this issue too. He's stalking some prey of his, but more on that later.
Back to Dr.Strange, who uses his Eye of Agamotto to track Dracula down to his new home. He finds him, and....the shit....is.....on! "By the omnipotent Oshtur! You killed my servant vampire, now you face Doctor Strange!" Strange blasts Dracula, temporially blinding him. Dracula quickly recovers and lunges at Strange. Strange counters, sending out the binding spells of the Rings of Raggador and the unbreakable Crimson Bands of Cyttorak to bind Dracula. And of course Dracula breaks them. Strange then attacks Dracula's mind, making him face his past. We see Dracula back when he was a human prince of Transylvania, fighting who he thinks is an old turkish enemy of his. Strange mystically stabs Dracula and he falls. Dracula wakes up in the midst of a magially-induced nightmare, as Strange pleads for fang-face to help him heal Wong. Dracula's having none of this, and hypnotizes Strange into letting him bite him. "My eyes, Strange. Gaze deeply into my eyes! Let my will become yours!"
Dracula bites Strange, and seemingly kills him just like Wong. We're hit with the old "to be continued" bit, and wouldn't you know it, the story's continued in Strange's own comic. Dr.Strange#14 to be exact. We see Blade again getting ready to bounce on a vampire. The vampire turns out to be Hannibal King, Vampire Detective. The reader's promised to see the outcome of that fight next issue.
And that's that.....

Now, I don't have Dr.Strange#14 on me, but I think it's safe to say he gets better after this issue's cliffhanger.

Until next week.....