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Dracula

Titolo : DRACULA
Storia : BRAM STOKER
Adattamento : LEAH MOORE, JOHN REPPION
Disegni : COLTON WORLEY
Copertina : JOHN CASSADAY
Lettering : ALESSANDRO BENEDETTI
Traduzione : FABIO GAMBERINI
ISBN : 978-88-6346-875-5
Pagine : 176
Ed. originale : DYNAMITE ENT., 2009
Ed. it. : PANINI COMICS, 11-2010

Panini published in November last year an ambitious comic book version of Dracula , from the novel by Stoker. Adaptation is Leah Moore (daughter of Alan Moore) and her husband John Reppion, with illustrations by Colton Worley.

April 30, Monaco. Jonathan Harker is on a coach out of town. The driver warns that it is Walpurgisnacht, certainly not the best night to travel, and refuses to take a road indicated by Harker. English continues to walk his walk, and at one point appears in the distance, only for a moment, the silhouette of a tall, thin man. Walking, Harker loses cognition time and is surprised by a snowstorm. To escape the cold, finds shelter in a crypt. Here, however, something unthinkable happens: a corpse with a stake driven into his chest seems to respond to lightning, rising to a wail of agony. Jonathan escapes but is soon overwhelmed by the storm. It is later found by villagers under a huge wolf, which saved his life with the warmth of fur. Harker is thus returned to the Quatre Saisons, where she found a letter awaiting him in his noble castle Dracula.
Harker's journey to Transylvania continues, followed by the notes in the story told by Stoker novel, Jonathan's meeting with the three wives, his imprisonment in the castle, the three proposals of marriage of Lucy, a holiday in Whitby with her friend Mina, the sinking of the ship Demeter, up chasing Dracula in Transylvania, and a final showdown. This

Complete Dracula is presented as a faithful version of Stoker's story, which adds nothing, resulting servile and lacking originality. Moore and Reppion reproduce even the same formula of the story, presenting the expedient of diaries, letters, documents. On comics, though, it seems to not work so well, too heavy to read. Reading, however, already hard enough for long captions and ubiquitous, so thick from choke on several occasions the drawings. Only interesting aspect of the text is drawn from the inclusion dell'antefatto 'Dracula's Guest .
remarkable results, however, the illustrations: the actual paintings, leaden, expressionist flavor. The characters are stiff, offered in a certain rigidity and portraits with faces carved, shaded, which projects a strong inner conflict. The accuracy is almost photographic, with dull colors, dull night. The design, however, is too subservient to the text, which is delegated to the narrative, thereby giving up the fluidity of the cartoons.
Ultimately, you do not understand well the meaning of this pretentious Dracula , vista l’esistenza delle superbe versioni a fumetti di Mignola, Muth, Crepax, Fernandez… Se, poi, in nome della fedeltà al romanzo, se ne ripropongono interi brani, tanto vale rileggersi il libro.

Risorse Web:
Sito ufficiale di Moore e Reppion
John Reppion su Wikipedia
Leah Moore su Wikipedia
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