A Month of Wednesdays: October 2026

BOUGHT: Dracula Book Three: The Count (Dark Horse Books) In some ways, the third volume of Matt Wagner, Kelley Jones and Jose Villarrubia's Dracula series is the most interesting. That's because it is devoted to the character's time in London in the late 19th century and thus covers the time of the "real", original Dracula story, that told in Bram Stoker's 1897 novel...and retold over and over again in what now seems like countless adaptations. How then would they differentiate their telling of this part of Dracula's long life from all the others...aside, of course, from the fact that this one features Jones' idiosyncratic art and thus, visually, wouldn't look a damn thing like any previous Dracula retelling?Well, as Wagner points out in his afterword, one interesting aspect of the original novel is that, once the action shifts from Transylvania to London, we don't actually see all that much of Dracula. And because of the epistolary nature of the novel, we actually get to hear from almost every character in the narrative except for the title character himself. As well covered as Dracula's time as "Count Dracula" in London might be in pop culture, then, there is a surprising amount ...