It’s not your traditional zombie book. Not only can humans be infected with the zombie virus, but it also seems animals can be as well, at least birds can. There’s also a bit of the government’s side of things, without making it feel too much like Resident Evil. I really liked the artwork. There’s a great sense of openness and isolation in some of the panels.

 

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Confession time: I have never read the original Raise the Dead.

Confession time #2: I didn’t have particularly high hopes for the sequel, both in terms of accessibility and in terms of transcending this basic, simple question — don’t we have enough zombie books on the shelf already?

Well, consider me converted — or, depending on your nomenclature, bitten.

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The first of three brand new titles (following on from 2010′s Four Romances by Mr. Bram Stoker,  Bram Stoker’s Other Gothics–Contemporary Reviews, and Extracts from Personal Reminiscences of Henry Irving by Bram Stoker) is coming in January 2011.

Contemporary Reviews of “Dracula”

Introduced by Leah Moore and John Reppion
Bram Stoker Series #4
Printings: January 2011 (125)
Style: A5, hand-sewn pamphlet
Length: 36 pages

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“Over the decades, as with so many other iconic stories, Dracula has fallen prey to numerous popularly held misconceptions. Until recently we had ourselves laboured under one such misconception: that Dracula was not well received by the reading public when it was first published. We believed it to have been something of a disappointment where sales where concerned; an overlooked treasure, ahead of its time, destined to be rediscovered at a later date… we also assumed that some of the subtler aspects of the novel, which give the post-modern reader satisfaction, might have gone over the heads of the nineteenth century audience. How could a stuffy Victorian possibly get pleasure from this book in the same way a twenty-first century reader might? Needless to say — as this volume of reviews demonstrates — we grossly underestimated not only the horror reader of 1897, but also, to some degree, Mr. Stoker himself.”

Contemporary Reviews of “Dracula” collects together a selection of reviews of Stoker’s seminal work shortly after it was published in England in 1897 and in America in 1899. These reviews — both complimentary and critical — give insight into Dracula’s initial public reception, unmarred by decades of misconceptions, academic scrutiny and literary legendary. Assembled from the list provided by Richard Dalby and William Hughes in their Bram Stoker: A Bibliography, these reviews appeared in many of the leading publications of their day, including The Spectator, Punch, Vanity Fair, and The Athenaeum. The booklet includes an insightful introduction by Leah Moore and John Reppion, who faithfully adapted Dracula as a graphic novel; and also reproduces first edition US and UK covers, as well as two short reviews of Dracula’s Guest and Other Weird Stories (1914).

Contemporary Reviews of “Dracula” will be followed by To My Dear Friend Hommy-Beg: The Great Friendship of Bram Stoker and Hall Caine, introduced by Richard Dalby, and The Definitive Judge’s House, with an introduction and frontpiece by Mike Mignola and endnotes and afterword by Jack G. Voller.

The Complete Dracula #1 arrives in shops across the USA and Canada today (UK and Europe tomorrow).

In addition to the advance review posted on Newsarama yesterday there is now another (more in depth and slightly spoiler-ish) one over on www.hypergeek.ca

Lets hope everyone else enjoys the issue just as much as they did.

Much of the credit for the loveliness of #1 must, of course, go to our fantastic artist Colton Worley for giving the book such an amazing and different look. Someone who also deserves credit is our letterer Simon Bowland who has definitely not had a easy ride on this project. TCD is so packed with captions, balloons, documents and fonts of different kinds that a lesser letterer would doubtless have gone mental by now. So, thanks chaps – you’ve both done a better job that we’d ever imagined possible.

If you haven’t picked up a copy of TCD #1 yet, find your nearest comic book shop now with www.comicshoplocator.com.

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Even though the first issue of our series The Trial of Sherlock Holmes doesn’t actually go on sale until May Dynamite have been sending out uncoloured proof versions to a few people. Little did we realise that this would mean our first review would roll in almost two months early. Thankfully it’s a good one!

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With that in mind, I thought I’d post links to some of the lovely reviews we’ve found or been pointed towards online:

• comixtreme.com – 4.5 out of 5
• popsyndicate.com – 3 out of 5
• comicdorkcast.blogspot.com
• comicpants.com
• majorspoilers.com – 4 out of 5

Thanks to everyone who enjoyed the book and took the time to write a review or get in touch and let us know.  We really appreciate it.

Cheers.