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Comic Book Alphabet of Vampires – N
Well, First Second Books’ Vampire Month is over, but we still have the back end of the alphabet to deal with, and we’ll begin with perhaps the dorkiest comic book vampire on this list (just perhaps)
Enjoy!
Nightrider
Nightrider was a vampire who went by the name Dagon. His original human name was David, and when he was a ten-year-old boy, he was hit by a car and then taken in by the evil forces of Lord Chaos. Lord Chaos’s forces then did all sorts of experiments on David – primarily among them, an attempt to turn him into a sort of vampire using DNA from Count Dracula.
The plan worked TOO well, and a demon became involved, and turned David into an ACTUAL vampire.
Now calling himself Dagon, he slaughtered almost all the troops who were guarding him – except one troop who showed him some kindness. Along with that troop, he joined the resistance to Lord Chaso.
He eventually joined one faction of the Team Titans resistance and was part of the group that was stranded in the past in an attempt to kill Lord Chaos.
Eventually, he became more and more vampiric…
Although he did manage to save his younger self from getting hit by the car!!
And then it was revealed that almost all of the Team Titans were actually creations of the villain Extant, who needed a superpowered army of cannon fodder heroes – and that is what Nightrider was.
During Zero Hour, he just plain ol’ vanished, along with most of the other Team Titans.
Not one of Marv Wolfman’s better creations, and I think he’ll freely admit that himself – Nightrider was designed as a bit of a throwaway character who was then given (along with the other Team Titans) way more screen time than originally intended.
- Posted on June 1, 2008 @ 11:05 PM
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buttler
June 2, 2008 at 12:59 am
Wow, from Morbius to . . . Teen Morbius?
Michael
June 2, 2008 at 4:21 am
A vampire with a talking car would be a pretty cool idea.
Jeff Ryan
June 2, 2008 at 12:06 pm
I bought this book for a year and a half. Despite Jimenez’s artwork, I kept on thinking “So this is the Teen Titans everyone always talks about…this isn’t that good.” One issue was just about four rocks floating around a house all day. That was it for me: I stopped my pull order.
Birmy
June 2, 2008 at 1:34 pm
Good to know the X-books didn’t have the market cornered on crappy spin-offs in this era.
Çteve!
June 2, 2008 at 5:06 pm
“with perhaps the dorkiest comic book vampire on this list (just perhaps)”
I wonder if you ever heard of Captain Cadaver ? Despite the ridiculous name, he was a very ruthless and effective vampire!
buttler
June 2, 2008 at 7:54 pm
Say! You totally skipped Count Chocula!
Tom Fitzpatrick
June 2, 2008 at 8:57 pm
I am a brother to alphabets,
and a companion to letters.
My skin is black upon me,
and my bones are burned with heat.
JOB Ch. 30, verses 29-30
buttler
June 2, 2008 at 9:30 pm
Wow, the irritating alphabet comment took longer than usual this time.
Birmy
June 2, 2008 at 9:57 pm
I think he’s twelve letters away from being the most hated commenter on CSBG.
Tom Fitzpatrick
June 3, 2008 at 4:33 am
I do aim to please.
Lothor
June 4, 2008 at 11:31 pm
Despite current popular usage, “troop” does not mean an individual soldier, which is what the above sentence sounds like you mean. “Troops” means an unspecified number of soldiers, but “troop” means a unit (comprised of several “troopers” or individual soldiers) under command of a captain.
Matt Algren
June 16, 2008 at 7:49 am
Thank Christ you were here to save us.