I've started up on Tomb of Dracula volume 2. I'm about five issues in, and it's already better than volume one. There's no pointless time travel, for one thing. it turns out that Dracula was once destroyed in the sixties by a vengeance seeking Scot. I'm guessing he's related to Kincaid from Skyfall. Blade's still a goofy stereotype (he even references Shaft at one point), but he's thankfully absent from much of it.