Baron Blood by Philip Tan (2012).

Philip, Kirk - HUGE thanks for this dark beauty. I really love you guys!

I'm absolutely not in the "commission spirit" this said never say never. I met Philip at the SDCC in 2006 where I picked up my 2 first commissions (Hawkeye & Medusa). This meeting with Philip, Kirk (and Jay) was for me an unforgettable moment of happiness, first time in California, meeting talented persons, sharing my love for their arts, a first & growing bound through the years started there at that precise moment! Just a GREAT & unexpected moment!

I then made an exception on my thoughts about this "commission thing", this only for Philip & Jay & only because I knew that they were (and still are) artists loving Comics, knowing they basics, talented artists with whom a commission never could go wrong.

A few years later I got the luck to discover a beautiful Red Sonja, today this insane Baron Blood.

The most interesting element is that through these commissions I can enjoy Philip's drawing evolution, use of different technics. Full pencils, pencils + inks + watercolors, pencils + more detailed china inking.

Bluffing, stunning, impressive full set of skills.
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Check here below some intel I picked up on the Baron Blood!!! ENJOY!!!!

John Falsworth first appears in the title Invaders as an English aristocrat. Although posing as the son of the first John Falsworth, it is revealed in flashback that the character is in fact the original, made possible due to the fact that he is now an ageless vampire. When the family fortune is left to older brother James, John Falsworth leaves England to pursue an interest - vampire lore.

Falsworth travels to Transylvania and encounters the original vampire Dracula, who, after overpowering Falsworth, drains his blood and turns him into one of the undead. Dracula then commands Falsworth to return to England and cause havoc in revenge for the deeds of former opponent Jonathan Harker. Adopting the alias of Baron Blood, the character allies with Germany during World War I and without either party realizing the identity of the other, battles his own brother, who is now the English hero Union Jack. Blood is wounded by Jack with a silver dagger, and flees to recover.

The character reappears during World War II in his false persona, and once again aids Germany, with Nazi technology helping to reduce susceptibility to sunlight (a major vampire weakness). As Blood, Falsworth attacks and wounds his niece, Jacqueline Falsworth, but is driven off by the original Human Torch. Almost dead due to blood loss, Jacqueline Falsworth is saved when given a blood transfusion by the Torch. The artificial blood causes the character to develop superhuman abilities, and she becomes the heroine Spitfire. Blood captures Spitfire and takes her to a cavern below Falsworth Manor, where in a final battle with Union Jack he cripples the hero by dropping a boulder on his legs. The superhero team the Invaders, however, arrive and defeat Blood, driving his body onto a silver-veined stalagmite.

Baron Blood reappears when Japanese soldiers sent by the spy Lady Lotus (I love her as well) find the cavern and attempt to resurrect the character. The soldiers are driven off by Union Jack (the identity having been adopted by James Falsworth's son, Brian) and Spitfire, although Blood is accidentally revived. Blood travels to the United States of America and after a brief skirmish with the Invaders joins the Nazi team the Super-Axis for a final battle with the heroes. Blood is killed once again when impaled on a stake thrown by Namor the Sub-Mariner.

In the title Captain America a servant of Dracula, Dr. Jacob Cromwell, is sent to revive Blood, whose bones are stored in the Tower of London. Although Cromwell is successful, Blood betrays and kills him and one of his daughters, turning the other into a vampire (who becomes Baroness Blood). Assuming Cromwell's identity, Blood commits a series of murders that arouse the suspicions of his now very elderly brother James. The older Falsworth requests the aid of Captain America, who with the third version of Union Jack battles Blood. After being tricked into thinking that Union Jack was his older brother James, Blood is decapitated with Captain America's shield. The character's body is burned to ashes, with the ashes scattered......