Ben Johnson

My first exposure to Dr. Michael Morbius, the Living Vampire, was his arc during the “Neogenic Nightmare” storyline in season 2 ofSpider-Man: The Animated Series. In that story, Morbius is a rival of Peter Parker’s in school and in romance who steals a vial containing a serum mixed with Peter’s blood in order to get a leg up on his own research. You see, he’s dedicated his life to curing a mysterious disease afflicting his unnamed home country. It doesn’t go well for him, however, thanks to an accident involving bats, lasers, and the stolen serum. Morbius gets transformed into a white-skinned vampiric creature with little suckers on his palms and an undeniable hunger for “plasma”. I thought he was kinda cool but very, very goofy.

While I learned later on that all that plasma talk was there to tone the character down for a younger audience, and that in the Marvel comics universeMorbiuswas a proper vampire with all the horror and biting (and no palm suckers!) that follows, I never could get the blue-haired, palm-suckered weirdo out of my head. But now, with theMorbius我想最终体验一下这位好医生的漫画历史。这一探索让我在2010年至2012年间看到了《活吸血鬼》与《怪物军团》的第二回合。让我非常惊讶的是，我在那里看到的——一个尽其所能帮助他的人民的领袖，同时与焦虑和傲慢作斗争——比我想象的要更加英雄。[Read more…]about Morbius and the Legion of Monsters Review!