Stars: 2
Review by: MandyApgar
I have been reading and re reading Dracula for over 25 years so perhaps I went into this with a bit of a slant. This is a trade consisting of several individual comics published over a period of decades as due to censorship regulations the series was left incomplete for years. That is quite impressive, sticking to a finish, but I could still for the life of me not like this. Really, all it was was just Stoker's text with pictures. Which were not very good, as the count looked far too much like Dabney Coleman to be threatening to me. Just not the best of collections, but in all likelihood some of that was due to shrinking a comic down to a smaller source. As so much of the book was written in the form of letters and journals, a lot of the lettering was in delicate script akin to handwriting. Very, very delicate, that did not do very well being shrunk to the smaller page. I am not sure if it was that the copy I read was bound so off that it was hard to read the text along the inner page, or just that it was so scribbly. The text blocks were often of a pink or purple as well as the actual writing, so the latter just blended in.
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