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greenmask (greenmask) wrote in scans_daily,
@ 2009-10-01 20:09:00

Dracula for yaseen101
I know I said I'd post this aages ago, please forgive me! Hopefully the excellency of these scans will make up for the wait.

Colour and black and white bronze age below.

A Human woman using Dracula for her own ends,
Dracula's effects on family life
Dracula's influence compared to the influence of personal interests, and Dracula showing respect
EDIT: Dracula vs. Lilith his daughter

I love that cover so much. Those guys are members of a police team dedicated to fighting vampires. That's beautiful.

The rest of this plot-thread is picked up later, but I can't find it right now..

DRAMA DRAMA DRAMA! And tragedy. There's more of this later too, which I can find if anyone's interested.

This is more of a Dracula-study. He seduces and turns a ballet dancer, who doesn't realise she's died and become a vampire; all she cares about is dance. But Dracula is all, "no bride of mine is gonna be having no career!" and comes to fetch her. She's not into it.

Dracula vs Lilith, from a story named "Sanctuary" in Tomb of Dracula Magazine 5:

These stories can be seen in Essential Tomb of Dracula v.2 (the first two_ and Essential Tomb of Dracula v.4 (the second two).

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	yaseen101 2009-10-02 10:17 am UTC (link)
	Thanks for posting. Dracula is my favorite fictional monster so it's great to see him written well outside of Stoker's novel. (Reply to this) (Thread)

	greenmask 2009-10-02 12:48 pm UTC (link)
	No probs! The whole run is just so good that it's a joy to share it. ..And so refreshing to see a vampire who is a powerful lordly unbending arsehole, not a sparkly whiny submissive twit. x_x (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

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greenmask
2009-10-02 03:12 pm UTC (link)
Hee. ^-^

Dracula is in Hellsing? Why did no-one tell me this before?? :O
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yaseen101
2009-10-02 03:39 pm UTC (link)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qsv5tg2p-z8&feature=related

Are you watching the OVA series or the manga? Yeah, they pretty much confirm it in the first OVA . It's no big spoiler really, with the name Alucard being Dracula spelled backwards and 'Hellsing' being the name of Abraham Van Hellsing, one of the protagonists in Dracula, plus Alucard has demonstrated all the abilities of Dracula throughout the series.
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greenmask
2009-10-02 03:52 pm UTC (link)
Neither! But I will be starting, I think.
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yaseen101
2009-10-02 04:04 pm UTC (link)
I recommend not watching the god-awful anime and instead watch the OVA's and the manga. The OVA might have a problem with the pacing since they have to omit some scenes due to time constraints, the manga has a much more linear pacing. The art is horrible in the first few chapters but it's phenomenal in the second half of the series.
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greenmask
2009-10-02 04:20 pm UTC (link)
Thanks!
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yaseen101
2009-10-02 05:39 pm UTC (link)
You are welcome.
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yaseen101
2009-10-02 03:13 pm UTC (link)
Yeah, I haven't finished Stoker's novel but he is already my favorite character. TV Tropes described him best, he is a 'very old , very tired overload, very evil overload who wants to take over the world or die trying', that's villain motivation 101 there.

Then you are going to love this:

http://becoolbeme.deviantart.com/art/Hellsing-VS-Twilight-126891421

http://raventhepenguinninja.deviantart.com/art/Edward-vs-Alucard-115537560

That's Dracula in the first one (and in my userpic) by the way, all 3 are from the same show, he is just showing off his shape shifting. :)
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greenmask
2009-10-02 03:18 pm UTC (link)
I haven't finished it either actually. My favourite character was Lucy from the start.. Dracula's interesting and impressive but I'm too sold on the Marvel version and he's not quite drawn the same in the novel. The focus is just a little different.

By the way? Never watch the film Bram Stoker's Dracula, if you haven't yet. As a fan of the book I felt insulted, and as a feminist I was incensed.

Also, Ted "Theodore" Logan will never be Jonathan Harker. :/
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yaseen101
2009-10-02 03:27 pm UTC (link)
I have heard about the movie and read the Wiki summary, I almost exploded from righteous anger.

Aesthetically speaking, I prefer Dracula with long hair rather than the short one Marvel gave him. As for his attitude, why not? I like him creeping people out just for the heck of it.
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greenmask
2009-10-02 03:37 pm UTC (link)
Righteous anger hi-five!

Oh, I like the creeping-for-the-heck too. I guess the difference between Stoker's novel and ToD is the perspective of the storyteller. Marvel's version is about Dracula, Stoker's is about the effects Dracula has on other people and society. Which is awesome, don't get me wrong, but in terms of character favouritism it makes it harder for me to go with novel-version Vlad.
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yaseen101
2009-10-02 03:44 pm UTC (link)
Well, we pretty much started out from different ends didn't we? I started out from Hellsing and then to the novel and you started with ToD and then to the novel. It helped me with the fact that Dracula's appearance in Hellsing was closer to the novel sans the beard and mono-brow along with the freaky-looking hands.
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