Early this month, I wrote a tribute to one of Howard the Duck's first villains, Bessie the Vampire Cow AKA
Hellcow. We talked about her relentless mission of vengeance against Dracula, about her untimely visit to Cleveland, OH, and about her unfortunate death at the hands of Howard. I lamented that this wonderful villain was left behind in the 1970s during Marvel Comics' current vampire craze and wistfully observed that Hellcow would make a wonderful villain for Marvel's coolest super-team, the
Pet Avengers. I ended her tribute with the following paragraph:
So keep a prayer (or a curse) going for Hellcow's eventual return from comic book limbo. She was one of the wackest creations out of the 70's and deserves to experience the spotlight once more.
DEADPOOL TEAM-UP #885
Written by Rick Spears; Art by Philip Bond; Cover by Humberto Ramos
Watch out Marvel U, the Bovine Blood Beast is back! The Merc with a Mouth meets the The Cow with a Cape. Gaze in horror, dear reader, upon the fiendish experiments inflicted upon Deadpool and Bessie the Vampire Cow by the malevolent Dr. Kilgore in the name of mad science and bear witness to their terrible revenge! Nothing on earth can prepare you for the horror that lurks within these pages.
This is very cool. I mean, it's not the Pet Avengers, but at least she's back. Plus she's hanging with Deadpool, who hangs with
Dogpool, which could eventually drag Hellcow over onto the Pet Avengers' yard as some point in the future. Like I said: Very cool!!!
Little did I know that my special prayer was in the process of being answered, as evidenced by Marvel's January 2011 comic book solicitation list. Check this out:
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