I actually have the rest of the Vampire trilogy but after Red Rain, I don’t think I’ll put myself through the torture that will inevitably be the rest of the series. The poor guy looks like he’s got two golf balls stuffed in his cheeks at all times (mouth cheeks that is)! Was he going for comedy? – while his Bruce looks weirdly proportioned like were seeing his reflection in a warped mirror. His Batmobile is pitiful – it looks like a carnival bumper car. I’m not much of a Kelley Jones fan either. It’s less than 100 pages long but it’s such a depressingly bad comic it took me several attempts to get through it. You know Batman will beat Dracula and he does. Dracula is like the traditional Count except he’s slightly younger. It’s soul-crushingly shit aka the Doug Moench Special! The story and characters are so flat and unexciting. Red Rain should be more fun than it is but it isn’t. Jaysis the commissioning editors were lazy back then! Batman fights Dracula? Yeah why not, let’s green light everything Batman-related! Batman takes a dump? Can we make it a two-parter? He has to break out the Bat-plunger! Dracula comes to Gotham, turns some people into vampires, Batman fights the vampires and Dracula. It’s an Elseworlds book (meaning it happened somewhere in the Multiverse outside of DC canon). Red Rain is the first of the Batman: Vampire trilogy Moench did with Kelley Jones. Was there really no-one else capable enough - was he the best of a bad bunch? I’m stunned once again by how much Batman work Doug Moench got in the ‘90s considering what a shockingly bad writer he is. Batman & Dracula: Red Rain by Doug Moench
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