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Man, do things keep going from ad to worse in the DC vs Vampires universe. Last issue we saw one of the last havens of humanity come under attack by the vampires, and here we find out that it resulted in the deaths of hundreds of people, including some of our favourite heroes and villains.
With the survivors split up and head off in different directions (with one of these groups transporting a hidden Supergirl to the last city) we follow one particular group consisting of Deathstroke, Booster Gold, Azrael, Bane, Midnighter, and Mary Marvel.
I really like this group, and the combination of personalities that we see play out across the course of this issue is quite good. Deathstroke is great in an almost heroic, leader-like role, it's fun to see Bane and Jean Paul getting along considering their history, and this more grizzled Booster is great. But the best is by far Mary, who doesn't seem to have let the end of the world dampen her spirits. She's delightfully cheery and chipper, even when people are dying around her, and it makes her one of the more stand-out characters in the entire series.
The down side of this is that I'm now going to be absolutely devastated if she ends up getting killed; which considering what this series is like is a distinct possibility. We ended up meeting a vampire hunting Jimmy Olsen this issue, who was actually pretty cool, and then lost him in the same story. But this is the way that DC vs. Vampires goes. You can't get attached to anyone.
We also find out what this little band of heroes (and I will use that term even though some were villains, as they're all heroes here) are planning. They're going to be travelling down to Florida in order to capture Weather Wizard in the hopes of taking him to one of the Lazarus Pits so that his vampirism can be reversed. All this so that he can change the weather, part the clouds, and bring sunlight back to Earth. It's a decent plan, but the downside is that the vamps know they're coming thanks to Billy Batson giving prophecies to what appears to be a vampire Lex Luthor (his face isn't clear, but it certainly looks like his armour at least).
The Back-up feature might be one of the most interesting and important ones that we've gotten so far in this series, as we get the first part of the story of how Dick Grayson becomes a vampire. Considering that Dick is behind all of this, that he's the man responsible for the destruction of Earth as we know it, this is a hugely important story.
We don't get a huge amount of stuff happen with it here, as this first part is lying the groundwork, but because we know how it's ultimately going to end and what's going to become of Dick it's an incredibly tense read because you know something terrible is coming and you're afraid to see it, as much as you really want to know how it happens.
I wasn't entirely sure about this spin-off title from the first issue, but issue two shows that it has its own fun and interesting stories to tell in this universe.
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