Dracula World Order

Dracula World Order
Independent title
Written by Ian Brill
Art by various artists

You’re the son of Dracula and you have daddy issues (with him, who wouldn’t). So, you go out and rescue a famed vampire hunter, a half-woman, half-snake experiment and the creation of one Dr. Frankenstein to hunt down dear old dad right after killing your sister. This is just the easy part because the whole world has been turned into either vampires, slaves or food. Welcome to the new world fashioned by the king of all vampires himself.

Let me start by saying the story is broken into four different chapters. Even for a standard size book, there are enough stories to be told that it can be done in this manner. Each chapter has it’s own artist and each hit it out of the park. The art has a dark overtone but enough brightness that it feels like it could happen. They stuck with the simple paneling for each story that it worked and allowed the art to move the reader through the stories. As for the writing, there were a few spots that didn’t work for me. One was what seemed like a grammatical error, or the sentence didn’t flow right where I had to read it twice. But other than that, the story and stories seemed real enough that this could happen or is happening and we don’t know it yet.

This is one that just worked. If you’re keeping track of what’s happening in the news and politics, you could read this and say, “No. . . Well, maybe . . .” From the opening panel you start to get pulled into what is being said, the main characters and the feel of the story just carries you along. Now, I’ll play a little spoiler here, this is a one shot. That part I don’t like. I want more. I like it where the stories, may not have an ending, but they have another issue coming. The writer says he will but we don’t know when. Read this book and start writing the writer telling him we want more, in my humble opinion. I give this, 4 caps out of 5.

Fanboys Vs Zombies #3
June, 2012