UNIVERSAL MONSTERS: DRACULA

Stephen Jewell

RELEASED OUT NOW! Publisher Skybound Entertainment/Image Comics Writer James Tynion IV Artists Martin Simmonds ISSUES 1-4 Skybound’s new Universal Monsters comics line is off to a fine start with this impressively unsettling four-parter from the creators of The Department Of Truth. Adapting Tod Browning’s 1931 film of Dracula, James Tynion IV dispenses with the early scenes in Transylvania, opening with ill-fated ship the Vesta having docked in London. With his stooge Renfield imprisoned in an asylum, the Count is initially a remote presence, making him even scarier as he carries out his attacks from the shadows. Following Lucy Weston’s murder, Tynion concentrates on the rivalry between Dr Seward and Abraham Van Helsing, which leaves the former’s daughter Mina in deadly peril. Keeping his script fast-paced and taut, with several wordless sequences,…

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SFX (Digital) - 1 Issue, March 2024

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