CheeseWhisper wrote:
Lord Golbez wrote:
That's more like it. Although I would have preferred if she just stuck the stake in all the way and traded the broom closet for the heather fields.
Seconded.
Eagle299 wrote:
So, Sampire is to be the new Dracula. Yeah, no way Drakku is not this world's Dracula. I approve of this turn of events.
I can't believe that Dracula would be older than Philinnion (or even Menelaus).
Seems unlikely, but I can't imagine that the name similarity is purely coincidental. Drakku, being this world's Dracula, doesn't necessarily have to conform to all the associations with Dracula. For the matter, neither do all imaginations of Dracula. As far as I recall, Bram Stoker never gave specifics that would put an upper limit on his age. Associations with Vlad would put him only in the hundreds of years, as opposed to the thousands for Menelaus and Philinnon (if he's THE Menelaus, his age should probably have been in the area of 3000 and Philinnon would presumably be older still), but there's no reason we have to assume that we couldn't have an older version of Dracula.
That said, what I find harder to believe is that no mention of "Dracula" has existed in this comic previously. I'm not going to read through the whole archive to find out though. It would be hard for Drakku to be this world's Dracula if the Niftyverse is already cognizant of Dracula in pop culture. I mean.... they could still say Dracula was based on Drakku, I guess.