Already in the fourth issue of the Curse of the Mutants storyline and nothing really is happening. The vampire concept is an interesting idea, but from panel to panel, the story does not give the audience something interesting to read about or an emotional feel towards the characters. All we get is Xarus the son of Dracula coming into San Francisco with his vampire coven, Jubilee a vampire, Blade makes an underused appearance, the X-Men resurrecting Dracula for help, then Wolverine now a vampire.

     The issue starts off with Cyclops and Madison Jeffries listening to 911 calls to look for vampire situations and finds out that many people are becoming victims of the vampires. Immediately many of the X-Men are scattered all over San Francisco (Colossus with Pixie, Storm with Rogue, & Gambit with X-23) to fight them off. At a nightclub, Warren as Angel follows along with Blade. Here the readers get a taste of a Lady Gaga reference which I think was a lame dialogue for a book that supposed to have a serious tone to the story. 

Blade: “This band sucks.”

Angel: “Lady Gagas back at the Cow Palace if that’s more your
speed. Maybe we can chase vampires there tomorrow night. You need backup down
there?”

Blade: “I’m working in close here. Your big chicken wings couldn’t
fit. And I said I like one Lady Gaga song. That doesn’t mean I want to…”

      After attacking a group of vampires, they chase a female vampire to a warehouse where Dracula and his army resides. Angel decides to flee and flies off with Blade. The scene then shifts to a video phone chat between Cyclops
and Dracula’s son. Xarus persuades Cyclops and the X-Men to join each other to
fight against humanity. Even Wolverine and Jubilee encourages Cyclops to do so.
While Angel, Pixie, Storm, Emma Frost, and Madison Jeffries looks surprised
that Wolverine is now a vampire, Cyclops doesn’t look surprised at all. It
seems that Cyclops may have let Wolverine rescue Jubilee in order to get Xarus
to the X-Men. Finally at the end of the issue, vampire Wolverine is off to kill Cyclops.

     As one final note, I am still questioning the fact that Wolverine would
actually turn into a vampire. He did prevent a Brood embryo from taking over
his body in the past so his biology of having a healing factor should
have fought off the vampire infection with ease. There are several conclusions I’ve drawn for the state of Wolverine. The first guess would be that his healing factor would eventually kick in sometime in the next issue, two would  be that X-Club gave Wolverine an immunization before he left to fetch Jubilee, or they have one ready for him at Utopia. I know some or even most people may not have read Curse
of the Mutants: Smoke and Blood #1, but X-Club had a test subject to help
them find a cure to vampirism.