Proof That Marvel Just Doesn’t Understand the Ladies…

Posted by Michael Pinto on Jun 4, 2010 in Comic Books |

Death of Dracula: A Marvel one shot

I can just see the meeting where the demography folks break out their PowerPoint and announce that “if we want to gain a female readership we gotta have vampires!” And to be fair women love vampires — so how can you go wrong? Well looking at the above cover of the Marvel one shot Death of Dracula you can drive a stake through its heart. Clearly what the art director didn’t get is that vampires are really all about romance, yet what you’ve got here looks like a bad parody of a 50s pulp magazine. But wait it gets worse, here are the character designs by the talented Marko Djurdjevic who seems to be channeling the worse elements of Elfquest and DEVO:

Death of Dracula: A Marvel one shot

Death of Dracula: A Marvel one shot

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