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Number Crunching: X-Men #2 Vs Ultimate Avengers 3 #1

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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Rich JohnstonAbout Rich Johnston

Founder of Bleeding Cool. The longest-serving digital news reporter in the world, since 1992. Author of The Flying Friar, Holed Up, The Avengefuls, Doctor Who: Room With A Deja Vu, The Many Murders Of Miss Cranbourne, Chase Variant. Lives in South-West London, works from Blacks on Dean Street, shops at Piranha Comics. Father of two. Political cartoonist.
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