Dracula: The Count Explores the Original Novel From the Villain's Point of View

Comic publication legends Matt Wagner and Kelley Jones person been engaged reimagining the unnaturally agelong beingness of Vlad Dracula done their graphic caller collaborations. The archetypal of those, Dracula: The Impaler, inactive ranks among the astir palmy comic publication Kickstarter campaigns of each time. Wagner and Jones are present delivering the 3rd (but not final) measurement successful the trilogy with Dracula: The Count. The large twist this clip is that the publication presents the events of the classical Bram Stoker caller from the constituent of presumption of Dracula himself.

With the Kickstarter run for Dracula: Book III - The Count unrecorded now, IGN tin exclusively debut a caller preview of the graphic novel. Check it retired successful the slideshow assemblage below:

As with the erstwhile volumes, Dracula: The Count is written by Wagner and illustrated by Jones, with some providing screen art. The publication is published done Orlok Press.

“Anyone who’s acquainted with Stoker’s archetypal caller knows that erstwhile the enactment shifts to England, the rubric quality is fundamentally each but unseen for the remainder of the narrative,” said Wagner successful a statement. “A sinister, charismatic and scheming vampire lord acceptable escaped connected the streets of London… and it’s truthful frustrating due to the fact that we ne'er get to spot him! Well, he’s decidedly up to thing astir foul… and present Kelley and I are yet unveiling what helium was doing during that terrifying period. We’ll spot him exploring and readying to exploit his caller home, this expansive and modern British Empire, a immense realm connected which, it was said, the prima ne'er set.”

“From our precise archetypal discussions of this project, this was the portion I thought would beryllium the trickiest to propulsion off,” said Jones. “But it was besides the portion I was looking guardant to the most! What Matt does truthful beautifully is to harvester literate and humanities accuracy with an utterly compelling communicative that keeps you connected the borderline of your spot from opening to end. Every clip I work 1 of his scripts, I find myself truthful afloat engaged successful however the communicative unfolds… I astir hide that I’m the 1 who gets to gully this unthinkable tale!”

“One of the distinctive aspects of Stoker’s archetypal caller is that it’s epistolary… told exclusively successful the signifier of diary entries, letters of correspondence and quality articles,” added Wagner. “The lone dependable missing from these assorted narrations is the astir important 1 of all… Dracula himself! So our mentation of these events is narrated by Dracula himself… from wrong the caput of an unrepentant monster. As Kelley said, this measurement was the astir challenging successful regards to accuracy arsenic the events of the archetypal caller are well-recorded, analyzed and annotated. And Kelley has perfectly brought his A+ crippled to this narrative. If you thought his enactment of BOOKS I & II was spectacular, wait’ll you spot however helium brings Dracula to beingness (er…undeath) connected the foggy streets of Victorian London! I’ll accidental it again… this is the communicative that Kelley Jones was calved to draw! And I’m the fortunate bastard who got to constitute it!”

Previously, Wagner and Jones collaborated connected Dracula: Book I - The Impaler successful 2023 and Dracula: Book II - The Brides successful 2024.

The crowdfunding run for Dracula: The Count is unrecorded now.

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