Spike vs Dracula (Angel comic)
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Spike vs Dracula is a trade paperback collecting comic stories based on the Angel television series.
Story description
A Spike story that takes place across centuries focusing on the long-running rivalry between Spike and Dracula.
Spike vs Dracula #1
A hundred and twenty years ago, a tribe of gypsies inflicted a terrible curse upon the vampire known as Angelus. In response to the curse, Angelus's family: Darla, Drusilla, and most notably, William the Bloody, a.k.a. "Spike", brought vengeance to the tribe by slaughtering them. However, the gypsy clan has a dark and powerful supporter in Count Dracula and outraged over the slaughter of the gypsies, Dracula seeks revenge upon the three vampires thereby beginning a rivalry between Spike and Dracula that lasts for decades.
Spike vs Dracula #2
1930s Hollywood, as Bela Lugosi gives a live, on-stage performance of his immortal "Dracula" the actual immortal Dracula hopes the song to be swiftly ended. Spike and a young Ed Wood try to stop such a turn of events.
Spike vs Dracula #3
Darla has been made a prisoner of the Third Reich and Spike becomes an agent of Hitler to help deliver gypsy tribes to the Nazis. Spike is forced into an uneasy alliance with his rival, Dracula.
Spike vs Dracula #4
In the jazz scene of 1950s Italy, Spike discovers Drusilla is being charmed away from him by a mysterious other. He does not know if it might be Dracula, the Immortal, or even a new player.
Spike vs Dracula #5
Dracula arrives at the Wolfram and Hart branch at Los Angeles and is surprised to meet a non-corporeal Spike. Spike who suddenly finds himself enjoying being a ghost if it means he can spend time endlessly tormenting Dracula.
Trivia
- The Buffyverse version of 'Dracula' also appeared in Buffy vs. Dracula and Tales of the Vampires story, Antique
- Cover artists for the comics were Joe Corroney Zach Howard, Sean Murphy, and Eric Wight
Missing dialogue
- When Spike vs Dracula #1 was originally released, due to an error in editing/printing, page 21 was missing it's dialogue. The missing text was revealed at [Peter David's official site]in April 2006[#endnote_notext]. The missing text is as follows:
- PANEL A: (Spike stalks the pub, looking as fearsome as he ever has. The people cringe back.)
- :SPIKE 1: Because our lord and master, Count Dracula, is living up on the mansion on the hill!
- :SPIKE 2: Yeah, that’s right! The head vampire himself!
- :SPIKE 3: You thought he was just a pretend bloke in a book?
- PANEL B: (He leans toward them, shouting.)
- :SPIKE 4: Think again!
- PANEL C: (People cringe back as Spike’s shadow is cast over them, his arms spread wide. Only Spike’s shadow is in the shot; Spike is off panel, casting the shadow.)
- :SPIKE 5: This is going to be a vampire town in no time! Because as long as the Count’s in residence, everything’s ducky!
- :SPIKE 6: Because he knows that you people wouldn’t have the stones to…oh, I dunno…
- PANEL D: (Reverse angle so that Spike, who is now near the door, is pointing at them.)
- :SPIKE 7: Form an angry mob and go storming his place!
- :SPIKE 8: Right now!
- :SPIKE 9: Right this very minute! With pitchforks and flaming arrows and torches.
- :SPIKE 10: But you won’t! ‘Cause you’re spineless!
- PANEL E: (Closer on Spike, tossing off that British obscene gesture of his with the two fingers.)
- :SPIKE 11: So there!
Continuity
- The stories take place:
- ::Issue #1 = Late 19th-century
- ::Issue #2 = 1930s Hollywood
- ::Issue #3 = WWII
- ::Issue #4 = Italy 1950s
- ::Issue #5 = L.A. 2003
- Issues #2-4 take place before 1995. Here they are listed with the other stories that take place around the same time in the Buffyverse:
- Here are all the Angel comics listed chronologically:
Canonical issues
- Angel comics are not usually considered by fans as canon. Rather than being 'canon', some fans consider them stories from the imaginations of authors' and artists', whilst other fans consider them as taking place in an alternative fictional reality. However unlike fanfic, 'overviews' summarising their story, written early in the writing process, were 'approved' by both Fox and Whedon (or his office), and the books were therefore later published as officially Angel merchandise.
Footnotes
See also
Spike comics
Spike novels
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