Dracula, Motherf**ker!
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Publisher Description
Vienna, 1889: Dracula’s brides nail him to the bottom of his coffin. Los Angeles, 1974: an aging starlet decides to raise the stakes. Crime scene photographer Quincy Harker is the only man who knows it happened, but will anyone believe him before he gets his own chalk outline? And are Dracula’s three brides there to help him...or use him as bait? A pulpy, pulse-pounding graphic novel of California psych-horror from acclaimed creators ALEX DE CAMPI and ERICA HENDERSON.
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De Campi (Bad Girls) applies the edgy, genre film approach of her Grindhouse series as she ingeniously drops Bram Stoker's marquee monster into a pulpy 1970s L.A., mixing up crime noir, blaxploitation, and anime influences. In Vienna, 1889, a trio of femme fatales tire of their bloodsucker husband and nail him inside a coffin. Stoker's Dracula is replaced by Henderson with a hideous beastlike phantom, who awakens when a fading starlet cracks his coffin at a groovy '70s f te. Quincy Harker is reimagined as a Black crime scene photographer selling salacious pics to sleazy tabloids in the City of Angels, and she comes within a fang's bite of becoming another Renfield before being rescued by one of the nameless undead Brides. Harker and the trio bond to take on the prince of darkness in an orgy of transmogrific mayhem. Henderson (The Unbeatable Squirrel Girl series) displays an acrobatic visual vocabulary, with elastic facial expressions and spectacular creature effects. The slim volume packs in action, avoids exposition, and lets the art carry characterizations rather than rely on dialogue dumps. This feminist-friendly evolution of the Brides of Dracula mashes up pop culture and classic references from a comics maverick to offer dizzy, delicious fun for horror fans.
