In 1998, Colan and his "Tomb of Dracula" writing collaborator, Marv Wolfman, reteamed on Dark Horse Comics three-issue miniseries "The Curse of Dracula" (July-Sept. 1998). Saying the book required "a much younger and better-looking Dracula" than in their previous series, Colan used "my lawn-boy my model. ... I asked him to do the posing and he did." For the same company early the next decade, Colan returned to vampires with the 2001 one-shot "Buffy the Vampire Slayer: Tales of the Slayers", an omnibus that included writer Doug Petrie's 16-page "Nikki Goes Down", starring a 1970s vampire slayer seen in one episode of the namesake TV series.