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3.0
This collects all the original Dracula strips from the Horror Comic Scream!.
Dracula leaves his home country of Romania and comes to modern day 80s London, pursued by a KGB defector, Colonel Stakis.
The collection starts strong with both Dracula and Stakis crossing to the west and that set up is just too juicy not to enjoy. Unfortunately, it doesn't last. There must have been a decision at some point to reset the approach and we are taken flashback style to old Romania. Pitchforks and everything.
This section is still great, there's some awesome character design in the two Vampire Hunters that come after Dracula, but really I want more of Classic Dracula in modern times.
After this the story comes to a pretty sudden stop. This is because Scream! as a whole was cancelled after 15 issues. There are a couple of extra stories from the specials/annuals but these are stand alone episodes of Stakis clashing with Dracula. They are pretty fun, at one point Stakis deploys an eagle to hunt Dracula in his bat form and Dracula escapes down a fairground helter-skelter!
Disappointingly, the artists on these episodes are no where near the excellent Eric Bradbury, whose detailed black and white artwork covers the initial run.
So this is not quite a lost classic, but a fun diverting quick read.
Hopefully Dracula and Stakis can return in a future Misty & Scream special or something.
Dracula leaves his home country of Romania and comes to modern day 80s London, pursued by a KGB defector, Colonel Stakis.
The collection starts strong with both Dracula and Stakis crossing to the west and that set up is just too juicy not to enjoy. Unfortunately, it doesn't last. There must have been a decision at some point to reset the approach and we are taken flashback style to old Romania. Pitchforks and everything.
This section is still great, there's some awesome character design in the two Vampire Hunters that come after Dracula, but really I want more of Classic Dracula in modern times.
After this the story comes to a pretty sudden stop. This is because Scream! as a whole was cancelled after 15 issues. There are a couple of extra stories from the specials/annuals but these are stand alone episodes of Stakis clashing with Dracula. They are pretty fun, at one point Stakis deploys an eagle to hunt Dracula in his bat form and Dracula escapes down a fairground helter-skelter!
Disappointingly, the artists on these episodes are no where near the excellent Eric Bradbury, whose detailed black and white artwork covers the initial run.
So this is not quite a lost classic, but a fun diverting quick read.
Hopefully Dracula and Stakis can return in a future Misty & Scream special or something.
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