Well, I made it through last week. Take the victories where you can. The comic guy in town moved his store. He's definitely got more space in the new place, but the old one had carpet, which I prefer to white linoleum. It's more welcoming.
Mr. Knight takes Reese and Soldier to meet with the boss of the vampires in Chinatown, a Lady Yulan. Find out why the Tutor doesn't encroach, and if they're open to an alliance. The answer to the first and second is, Yulan is sort of responsible for Tutor being turned, but Tutor knows who sired Yulan, and that they're looking for her. So there's a uneasy truce. "Leave me alone, I leave you alone." Works for me and the rattlesnakes.
Yulan is willing to tell them what the Tutor hopes to accomplish. Networking, essentially, to build his rep and possibly challenge Dracula for rule of the Vampire Nation of Chernobyl?! OK, hold up, hold up, when the hell did that happen? Was it in Avengers? This sounds like something Jason Aaron would do. Anyway, Tutor's having a big get-together with most of the other major vamps for this networking, and Yulan knows when and where.
Cappuccio continues to draw vampires as looking human, minus the red pupils and black scleras. However, with Yulan, we do see her appearance shift to something more demonic. Her veins turn black and are more prominent, and she has almost like tusks sticking out the sides of their mouths. Kind of resembles a mask of a tengu or oni or something. Doesn't seem like those teeth would useful for drinking blood. Not sure if that's a reflection of how long she's been a vampire - says she'd killed a thousand men for her sire before Dracula was even on the scene. Quality not quantity. You ever turned a Sorcerer Supreme? - or because of how she was turned. She says it was by her alchemy, whatever that means.
While all that's going on, Hunter's Moon is busy fighting the two European assassins that went after Moon Knight a couple of issues ago. He's not down with making alliances with vampires. Somebody didn't learn the importance of teamwork. He's not doing badly, but then he gets jumped by a couple dozen of Tutor's vamps as well, and, I mean, one of them stuck a crowbar in his chest. Crowbars are not stabbing weapons, come on, vampires! Also, don't give Blade any new ideas on how to kill you. I find it hard to believe MacKay is going to kill off a character he introduced a year ago, but it didn't sound good.
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