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He can make your blood boil by looking at you. He can slit his thumb open and create a near-unbreakable sword from the blood that flows out. He commands thousands, protecting them in a camouflaged fortress built from the reservoir of blood he controls with his mind. This is a Dracula like none you've ever seen, fever-dreamed for today and culled from our most reliable archetypal Draculas: the alienness of Lugosi, the cruelty of Lee, tall and muscular, black hair swept back. Hard eyes. Fierce jaw. Thin nose and cruel mouth. Black Victorian suit with a cloak. This Dracula is a King, and he rules with an iron will and unmatched cruelty. And he is our only hope. |
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SWORD OF DRACULA launches what will become a new line of "Hard-Edged Horror Comics" that look at classic monsters and macabre tales with a new, intense twist. Or two.
In SWORD OF DRACULA, VERONICA "RONNIE" VAN HELSING, the leader of a Mission: Impossible-style organization called the Polidorium, teams up with her greatest enemy, Dracula, King of Vampires, to fend off an onslaught from the Nephilim, the fallen angels who bred the original vampires in the first place (recorded in Genesis and Enoch).
SWORD OF DRACULA is about re-inventing Dracula one more time—to make him BIG the way each of the old movies made him BIG in their day. With new powers, a darker, more intense attitude for the Prince of Darkness, and a milieu that’s as much “Misson: Impossible” as it is vampiric, the slogan of SWORD OF DRACULA is, “You’ve Seen Dracula—but you’ve never seen him like this.”
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SWORD OF DRACULA draws from the insane intensity of Hong Kong live action, and western-like anime like VAMPIRE HUNTER D: BLOODLUST. The series mixes wide, expressive action, lean story-telling, commando military tech, andinsane blood powers never used in a Western Vampire story. |
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