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Arthur Baron-Clément @arthur.baron-clement.com · 18h

nuclear pastel

Gouache painting of a pastel cloudy sky.

PJ Montgomery @pjmontgomery.bsky.social · 14h

A really bad look that Bitmap Books haven’t said a thing for days. I don’t think burying your head in the sand and hoping the controversy goes away is going to work for this.

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Ricardo Juchem @ricardojuchem.com · 14h

The xenophobic author that @bitmapbooks.com is defending has a prejudice that is not exclusive to Brazilians.

He has plenty of hate in his heart and have some things to say about our fellow hermanos from Argentina as well... by calling them primates.

Capture from a tweet from @theWellRedMage, account from Moses Norton, author from Bitmap Books: "No, since the turbo controller is Japan exclusive and you'll need to order it from a primate in south Argentina In order to get.."

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PJ Montgomery @pjmontgomery.bsky.social · 15h

282. Oddworld: Munch’s Odyssey. It’s not as good as Abe’s Odyssey or Abe’s Exodus, but Munch’s Odyssey didn’t do a bad job of bringing Oddworld into the third dimension. And I liked Munch as a main character. Fun, if not top tier. #365games

Civet art for Munch’s Odyssey, showing Munch and Abe on a can of drink.

A screenshot from the game, of Munch and Abe stood in an industrial environment.

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PJ Montgomery @pjmontgomery.bsky.social · 19h

Still, fingers crossed, we get a collection in black and white somewhere down the line. I would trade my colour one in.

Which is your favourite comic version of Dracula?

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PJ Montgomery @pjmontgomery.bsky.social · 19h

Since he was also pencilling here, the whole thing just looks superb. I love it.

The four issues were later collected, although Marvel made a mistake here by adding colour, which for me causes the art to lose some of its impact. Despite that, I still think it’s effective, and the cover is lovely.

My copy of the Marvel collection of Dracula.

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PJ Montgomery @pjmontgomery.bsky.social · 19h

Giordano was primarily known as an inker, embellishing the pencils of such legends as Neal Adams and Ross Andru on many comics for DC and Marvel. He knew how to bring light and darkness to the page, and this skill serves him well here.

Cover art for Green Lantern / Green Arrow issue #76, showing Green Arrow shooting Green Lantern’s lantern as he tries to charge his ring. By Neal Adams and Dick Giordano.

Cover for Superman Vs the Amazing Spider-Man, showing Spidey stuck to the top of a building, bracing, while Superman flies towards him. Pencilled by Ross Andru, with inks by Dick Giordano.

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PJ Montgomery @pjmontgomery.bsky.social · 19h

Giordano himself said that after 30 years, he would have designed the characters differently, but was stuck with what his younger self had done. But it still all works as a comic version of Stoker’s story. It’s very faithful, and looks suitably gothic.

Cover art for Stoker’s Dracula issue #4, featuring a close up of Dracula’s head, with blood dripping from one of his fangs.

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PJ Montgomery @pjmontgomery.bsky.social · 19h

Until 2004, when Marvel approached the pair, asking if they wanted to finish the story, and publish the whole thing as a four part miniseries, simply titled Stoker’s Dracula.

You can tell that the final third of the comic was drawn later.

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PJ Montgomery @pjmontgomery.bsky.social · 19h

Unfortunately, in 1975, the magazine was cancelled, and while one more chapter was printed in issue #1 of Legion of Monsters, the story wasn’t finished, and looked like it never would be.

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PJ Montgomery @pjmontgomery.bsky.social · 19h

So it was a little more mature than its sister title.

With issue #5, writer Roy Thomas and artist Dick Giordano, legendary names in the world of comics, started adapting the Dracula novel in short, ten to twelve page instalments.

Cover for issue #3 of Stoker’s Dracula, showing Dracula about to bite Lucy’s neck.

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PJ Montgomery @pjmontgomery.bsky.social · 19h

Tomb of Dracula was a full colour comic, and as such, was subject to the rules laid down by the Comics Code Authority. However, the spin-off, Dracula Lives!, was a magazine. It included black and white comics, but as a magazine, was not subject to the code’s rules.

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PJ Montgomery @pjmontgomery.bsky.social · 19h

With the success of their Tomb of Dracula comic in the seventies, which told new stories about the Count, who was even folded into the Marvel Universe with issue #1 of Giant-Size Spider-Man, Marvel decided it was time to launch a spin-off.

Cover art for Stoker’s Dracula issue #2, featuring a scared looking Mina writing in her journal, while the Count looms behind her.

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PJ Montgomery @pjmontgomery.bsky.social · 19h

#31DaysOfDracula Day 10 Stoker’s Dracula (Marvel Adaptation)

There have been a lot of adaptations of Dracula over the years, but the Marvel Comics version might be my favourite.

Cover art for Stoker’s Dracula issue #1, featuring Dracula front and centre.

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Jade Van Kley @backlinenurse.bsky.social · 1d

I promise you won’t guess what this is replying to

autisticforacure @thewhalenebulae.bsky.social · 1d

Openly admitting to supporting fascism on blue sky. Bold move.

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sephirAmy @sephiramy.bsky.social · 1d

a large part of why creators coming out in support of AI is SO disappointing is because it forces you to realize that all the parts of the craft that you thought they enjoyed, all the other artists you thought they valued, are actually disposable to them. they don't care about the process of MAKING.

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PJ Montgomery @pjmontgomery.bsky.social · 1d

281. Pokemon Sword. I do don’t have much to say about the game itself. It’s a Pokemon game, albeit a pretty one, with some cool Pokemon in it. But when my wife got her Switch, we got both games (I got Sword, she got Shield), and played through them together. Which was pretty cool. #365games

Cover art for Pokemon Sword, featuring the legendary Pokemon, Zacian.

A screenshot from Pokemon Sword of a the trainer confronting an Onyx in the wild.

My copy of Pokemon Sword, alongside the steelbook case that came with it.

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PJ Montgomery @pjmontgomery.bsky.social · 1d

It wasn’t printed until two years after Stoker’s death, so we’ll never really know. But, wherever you sit on its relation to Dracula, Dracula’s Guest is a really good, atmospheric short story, and well worth checking out.

Have you read it? What do you think the story’s origins are?

Another cover for Dracula’s Guest, showing a wolf prowling outside the crypt, with a woman lying within it.

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PJ Montgomery @pjmontgomery.bsky.social · 1d

Rather, it’s s standard first person narrative, which is the main argument against it being a missing chapter.

My opinion, for what it’s worth, is that it started as a part of Dracula, but Stoker removed it before he settled on the journal/letters/newspapers style.

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PJ Montgomery @pjmontgomery.bsky.social · 1d

The dates in the story do tally with this, as the character’s nighttime walk in Munich takes place the day before Harker leaves Munich in the novel. But, it’s not told as a journal, as Harker’s subsequent adventures are.

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PJ Montgomery @pjmontgomery.bsky.social · 1d

The rescue is prompted by a letter from the man’s host, Count Dracula, advising that his guest needs to be kept safe.

Many believe this short is actually the original first chapter of Dracula, and the unnamed man is Jonathan Harker.

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PJ Montgomery @pjmontgomery.bsky.social · 1d

He encounters an undead woman in a tomb, is knocked unconscious by a bolt of listening flinging him from his tomb, and awakens to find a huge wolf on his chest, licking his throat. He is then rescued by soldiers, who were sent by the innkeeper where he was staying.

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PJ Montgomery @pjmontgomery.bsky.social · 1d

He stops in Munich on his way, and goes for a stroll at night, despite it being Walpurgis night, and the locals warning him of the dangers abroad.

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PJ Montgomery @pjmontgomery.bsky.social · 1d

#31DaysOfDracula Day 9 - Dracula’s Guest

The origins of this short story by Bram Stoker are muddy. But it does appear that it came out of an early draft or early notes on Dracula.

The story concerns an unnamed man from England, who is on his way to Castle Dracula to meet with the Count.

Cover art for Dracula’s Guest, showing the wolf sitting on the unnamed narrator.

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PJ Montgomery @pjmontgomery.bsky.social · 2d

Yeah, I did wonder about that aspect. And it’ll be interesting with some of the contestants already knowing each other quite well too. But also, I love that they’re already making the same accusations. “Clare fucked up on purpose, she’s a traitor.” Feels like that could’ve happened in any series.

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