Author: Kevin VanHook
Artist: Tom Mandrake
First published: 2009 (tpb)
Contains spoilers
The Blurb: When Superman and Batman team up, they're the World's Finest Heroes - so what happens when they're faced with the legendary creatures of the night?
In this self-contained adventure from cult favorite horror film director Kevin VanHook (Voodoo Moon) and atmospheric artist Tom Mandrake (THE SPECTRE, MARTIAN MANHUNTER), The Man of Steel and The Dark Knight take on vampires and werewolves in a no-holds-barred fight to save the DCU! With the help of a rogue bloodsucker and lycanthrope, not to mention Green Arrow, Batman and Superman might actually stand a chance against an attack from the world's deadliest monsters.
The Review: In honesty there isn’t a lot to say about this. A variety of DC heroes, notably Batman and Superman but also Nightwing, Wonder Woman, Green Arrow, Etrigan and Manbat, become embroiled in a plague of vampires and werewolves in Gotham.
The source is Herbert Combs (I am assuming named for Herbert West & Jeffrey Combs, but I could be wrong) who managed to summon both types of creatures and turn, experimentally, a man named Janko into a werewolf and Marius Dimeter (named, I assume for the Demeter) into a vampire. He has then synthesised their blood into a toxin to turn ordinary folks into lesser level vampires and werewolves (so a combination of occultism and science). Luckily the lesser level ones do not seem to be able to turn others (as a werewolf draws blood with Wonder Woman and, due to them being essentially magical, manages to scratch Superman’s face).
For the most part it is just an all-out battle with the creatures but, despite having not a lot in depth to say, there is one brilliant moment of pathos with a turned vampire and superman. The latter doesn’t wish to kill and the former manages to throw himself out of a window into sunlight – causing a moment of pathos for Superman, who realises he might have been saved had he not killed himself. If you want superheroes fighting vampires and werewolves, then this deserves 6 out of 10.
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