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X-Men: Apocalypse vs. Dracula (01 - 04)
Posted: June 22nd, 2007, 1:48pm CEST by Spiral

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X-Men: Apocalypse vs. Dracula (01 - 04)
Review: The plot of the story for this is good, better than you would expect from a series called X-Men: Apocalypse vs. Dracula. In the previous issue, in the late 1800s somebody was murdering members of clan Akkaba a.k.a. the descendants of Apocalypse. The leading council of Clan Akkaba has summoned Apocalypse, with great risk to their lives, to deal with this new threat. With the help of an unexpected ally, they discover the source of this new threat: Vampires!

There is some wonderful originality in this story, some great new takes on old concepts. Clan Akkaba itself is a prime example, as well what happens when members of ApocalypseÂ’s family becomes vampires. ApocalypseÂ’s new costume is the best yet.

The problem with both writing by Frank Tieri and art by Clay Henry, Mark Morales and Will Quintana is that neither really sells me that this is taking place in the late 1800s. They have all the clichés of the time period without having any of the atmosphere. The dialogue has none of the flavor of London in the 1800s except for the occasionally ‘criminey!’ It is especially noticeable with the artwork. They have all the vampire clichés (with some new twists) with hardly any shadows. There is very little in the way of background in any of the panels, and the only time shadows really are used is to hide this fact. Shadows should be used to create mood and texture, not to hide the artist’s shortcomings. The coloring is especially bad in that Quintana likes to use a lot of reddish-oranges in his work. It is not even a blood red but the red you might find in explosions.

The artwork is not bad, mind you. I would really work if this was a current X-men story or another generic super hero comic book. This is supposed to take place in a time different than our own, and they should be working to make the art slightly different than modern day. They should really be taking long look and Hammer films and trying to emulate those masterpieces of horror. The cover for this book by Jae Lee is absolutely a perfect example of what the inerior art should be like. Instead what we are being given is a Vampire story without any soul. (DonÂ’t worry, I am sure Andrea will edit out that joke before you have to read it.)

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A desperate search for her missing brother once again pits Claire Redfield against the terrifying bioweapons of the Umbrella Corporation. Her quest leads her to a remote island where a mad genius has unleashed every grotesque creature at his disposal to stop her from interfering with his horrific agenda.

Catapulted to the bottom of the world, Claire is at last reunited with the man she came to find. Chris Redfield has been fighting a one-man war of his own against Umbrella's most terrifying creations...and is now on a collision course with the man who betrayed the S.T.A.R.S. in Raccoon City. A man who should, by all rights, be dead: Captain Albert Wesker .

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Raccoon City: a remote mountain community suddenly besieged by a rash of grisly murders encroaching upon it from the surrounding forest. Bizarre reports start to spread, describing attacks from vicious creatures,some human... some not. Victims are apparently Eaten.

At the epicenter of these deaths is a dark, secluded mansion belonging to the mysterious Umbrella Corporation. For years Umbrella has labored within the mansion, unwatched, ostensibly conducting benign genetic research.

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Resident Evil: City of the Dead




Claire and Leon have one chance to save themselves: get to RPD headquarters and find some means of escape. But others have sought refuge in teh precinct as well, and not all of them are on teh same side...

For on this night, Raccoon City has become a necropolis. In a secret lab far beneath its once-bustling streets, a botched attempt by the Umbrella Corporation to retrieve a devastating mutagenic weapon has resulted in a horrifying viral outbreak, transforming every man, woman, and child in the city into one of the living dead. And all of them are hungry.

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Resident Evil: Caliban Cove




In the aftermath of their ordeal through the Umbrella Corporation's genetic research facility, the surviving members of the Special Tactics and Rescue Squad (S.T.A.R.S.) attempt to warn the world about the conspiracy to create terrifying biological weapons. But the conspiracy is far from dead, as the S.T.A.R.S. learn when they are declared outlaws by the very people who trained them. Forced to go underground, the S.T.A.R.S. resolve to battle the conspiracy on their own, determined to seek out and stop Umbrella's experiments wherever they may be.

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