Namor The First Mutant (2010) #3: "Royal Blood: Part Three"

Halloween's a comin' so I'm going to catch up on a couple of books with more of a horror feel, starting with the 3rd issue of Namor The First Mutant.

Issue 1 was read here and #2 was read here.

Atlantis is in mid-rebuild (again) and her forces are depleted so this is a terrible time for underwater vampires (Aqueos) to attack, but sure enough they have.

Namor and the rather fine Abira are chatting with an ancient wizard known only as the Logomancer about how to destroy these creatures. The Logomancer recommends a spell but as they start looking into its requirements a little deeper, Namor dismisses Abira as he would a child.

In order for it to work, the spell needs the blood of a king. ALL of the king's blood. Namor doesn't want Abira to know that he plans to sacrifice himself for his people.

The spell is incomplete. The Logomancer believes that its final part is hidden in a tomb in the Aqueos' hidden city.

So armed with some sort of Atlantean triple lightsaber, and given better directions as to how to find the city and the tomb within it, Namor and his few troops take the battle to the aqua-vampires.

Namor asks Abira along. When they reach the tomb and complete the preparations for the spell that will banish the Aqueos, he levels with her about her role in all this.

As they debate procedure, they are interrupted by the Aqueos leader.

Grandfather, eh? Always good to bump into family.

I haven't come across Thakorr much to this point, from memory, but it's rather clear he hasn't aged well. This story will conclude as of the next issue so I would expect a solid family scrap though it appears by looking at its credits ahead of time, Ariel Olivetti did not pencil and ink that one. Too bad, I've enjoyed his art a great deal.