Complete Dracula #1

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• 5.0

  Comics Bulletin - David Wallace

  May 22, 2009

  There's such a thing as being too respectful when adapting a story into a completely different medium, and in the case of The Complete Dracula, there's a sense that not enough has been done to transform the text of Stoker's original novel into an enjoyable comic in its own right. The over reliance on narrative captions, the conflict between the epistolary nature of the text and the direct nature of the artwork, and the compressed nature of the story all combine to make this a less enjoyable adaptation than I was hoping for. Read Full Review