By Doug Moench
Following the occasions of BATMAN: BLOODSTORM, Batman falls deeper into the gothic abyss of his new vampiric nature. not in a position to sate his bloodlust, the darkish Knight transforms right into a awful monster decided to manage his personal tough justice to the criminals of Gotham. performing with out guilt or sense of right and wrong, Batman unleashes terrible and savage assaults on a few of his oldest foes, together with Two-Face, Poison Ivy, Killer Croc, and the Riddler. the ultimate tragic bankruptcy within the Batman/Dracula trilogy, this ebook chronicles a hero's ultimate descent to the private pits of darkness and evil.
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35 In addition to the inward-directed function of group consolidation, these acts of collective violence had another, outward-directed side. The hajduks’ destruction of the vampire was also a blow aimed at Austrian authority figures. The amazement that Frombald and Flückinger record stemmed in large part from the insubordination of the peasants. The former states in his account that “the people grew more outraged than distressed” when he attempted to intervene: the officer feared that the villagers might turn their rage on him if he did not permit them to destroy the vampire.
The War of Austrian Succession (1740–48), which began on the pretext that Maria Theresa, as a woman, could not legitimately inherit the Habsburg throne, marked the emergence of Prussia as an international force of note. The theater of fighting rapidly expanded from Silesia to Bohemia and Moravia; seeking to obtain a balance of power favorable to their interests, all the major European states were soon involved. Thus, in both an immediate and a broad historical perspective, the vampire debates reflected past political problems, nascent conflicts, and crises yet to emerge.
In seinem Mund hab nicht ohne Erstaunung einiges frisches Blut erblickt, welches, der gemeinen Aussag nach, er von denen, 32 VAMPIRE COUNTRY: BORDERS OF CULTURE AND POWER durch ihme umgebrachte, gesogen. [ . . ] Nachdem nun sowol der Popp als ich dieses Spectacul gesehen, der Pövel aber mehr und mehr ergrimter als bestürtzter wurde, haben sie gesamte Unterthanen in schneller Eil einen Pfeil gespitzet, solchen, dem Todten-Cörper zu durchstechen . . 11 [After a subject by the name of Peter Plogojowitz had died, ten weeks past — he lived in the village of Kisilova, in the Rahm district — and had been buried .