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9. Hell Comes to Birmingham, Conclusion
Writer: Paul Cornell
Artists: Leonard Kirk and Mike Collins
We’ll get to this issue and everything soon, but first, I have to say SCREW YOU, UNIVERSE!!! Really? The slow, drawn-out Mindless Ones arc took place in the first ten issues, but I don’t get to talk about Dracula in his castle on the Moon??????
The last page of this issue is better than the three issues that came before.
Anyway, this issue isn’t bad. It’s actually good! But it’s very bleak. Wisdom is a lot tougher and more vicious than I expected, especially when he’s betrayed. Like, look what he does to Captain Midlands in this issue alone. He destroys his ghost-wife, drags him out in front of his entire community, and, while in jail, hands him a gun to kill himself to avoid a public trial. Like, holy crap.
But yeah, Dracula has a moon castle. He’s asking that Doctor Doom be brought to him, and that’s possibly the greatest page in history.
