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Number Crunching: X-Men #2 Vs Ultimate Avengers 3 #1
Two comics in two Marvel universes with the heroes set against vampires. One created by Mark Millar and Steve Dillon, the other by David Gabriel – via Victor Gischler and Paco Medina. So how do they stack up?How similar are they? Well there is some… but then a whole lot more difference.
| X-Men #2 | Ultimate Avengers 3 #1 | |
| Cost | 3.99 | 3.99 |
| Story pages | 23 | 23 |
| Price per page | 17.3 cents | 17.3 cents |
| Panel count | 106 | 68 |
| Price per panel | 3.8 cents | 5.9 cents |
| Vampire-bitted heroes | 1 | 3 |
| Vampire deaths | 2 | 9 |
| Vampire deaths by Blade | 1 | 9 |
| Moments when you suddenly think you're reading Preacher | 0 | 3 |
| Splash pages with a four way | 0 | 1 |
| Vampires having a new boss | 1 | 1 |
| Vampires plan to come out of the shadows | 0 | 1 |
| Moments when the writer threw a public wobbly because of the similarity of both projects. | 0 | 1 |
| Moments when it's odd that Blade wears his trousers in bed | 0 | 1 |
| Racially dodgy language | 0 | 1 |
| Sexually dodgy language | 0 | 1 |
| Captain American anachronistic language | 0 | 1 |
| Moments where the writer doesn't understand how religious icons work on vampires and thinks the vampire has to be religious. Which is really stupid when you think about it | 0 | 1 |
| Characters called Nemesis dressed all in white | 1 | 0 (Not in this comic) |
| Moments when the characters decide they have to resurrect Dracula | 1 | 0 |
| Moments when Blade goes along with it | 1 | 0 |
| Moments where you go "I don't care about the exposition, that's like Rorschach siding with Ozymandias" | 1 | 0 |
| Percentage of comic that makes sense somehow. | 60% | 40% |
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