Dracula: Superhero

Gavok over at 4thletter! has slowly but surely become one of my favorite offbeat comics bloggers. Covering topics such as Marvel's old What If...? series and an exhaustive history of the character Venom, he's carved out his own unique territory in the blogosphere. Also, Darkseid Minus New Gods is an unheralded masterpiece of pop comedy.

The latest strange and wonderful comic dismantled by Gavok is an old Dell superhero book based on...Dracula. Yep, it's Dracula as a superhero.

Dracula wants to move forward and break away from the bat-based stigma of his bloodline by… uh… experimenting on bats. He has just made a serum out of the supersensory portions of a bat’s brain, with hopes that it can cure brain damage. Ingesting bat brains heals your own brain? I don’t know about that. Ozzy Osborne is still pretty loopy.