Dracula Lives! #8 - Marvel

More Dracula, and another cover by Luis Dominguez!

Y'know, looking over all these issues in a row, I realize that the woman in question is the same woman each time--jeez, can't Drac leave this poor woman alone for five minutes? How much blood can she have left?

First up is "Last Walk on the Night Side" by Doug Moench and Tony DeZuniga. This is Part 1 of a 2-part tale about a cop who runs afoul of Dracula on his last night on the force. We get to see Drac take on some hippies, too. Always a bonus.

Next is "Black Hand...Black Death!" by Len Wein, Gene Colan, and Ernie Chua, about a mobster that puts a hit out on...Dracula! Great, fun story, completely insane with a nightmarish, black humor ending.

Third is a Dracula prose story, "Child of the Sun" by Chris Claremont, featuring some nice spot art by Pablo Marcos, and then "Coffin Chronicles" by Carla Joseph where she reviews some more Dracula films.

Last is the fourth installment of Thomas and Giordano's Dracula adaptation, as excellent as the earlier chapters. I've found that this feature was the best thing to end the issue on, since it was so solid and well done. You'd have all these different interpretations of Dracula, and then end on the version that started it all.

While the ad content is a little higher in this issue, its still a solid one, with all the material being pretty top-notch. I'd say Dracula Lives! was really on a hot streak!