Morbius the Living Vampire #7 – Review

By: Joe Keatinge (story), Valentine de Landro/Felix Ruiz (art), Antonio Fabela (colors)

The Story: Two of the most unappealing and unattractive characters team up. What did you expect?

The Review: Is it any wonder that this title is scheduled to be cancelled with issue #9? This title has been a slow-motion train wreck since it started.  This issue is simply another nail in the coffin (no pun intended).  This comic is such a disaster that I don’t know where to start.

That’s not true – I know exactly where to start. From the jump, the writer has had absolutely no concept of who this character is. Keatinge has ignored decades of character development in order to slap together this “vampire as the noble hero” in, of all places, Brownsville, Brooklyn, New York.  What the heck?!

Anyone that has spent ANY time in Brownsville knows that it is the LAST place Morbius would be found, much less acting as its “protector”. What were they thinking? A European scientist that has spent the better part of his life fighting against supernatural horror beings and searching for a cure to his blood dyscrasia is now suddenly the self-proclaimed protector of Brownsville?!

I spent several months as a medical student at Brookdale hospital in Brownsville and I promise you that no self-respecting vampire would be caught dead (pun definitely intended) in Brownsville. A European super-scientist would simply find nothing to challenge his intellect in Brownsville, not when Manhattan is a subway ride away. It’s as if a superhero decided to become the protector of Parma, but ignore the problems of Cleveland.