Dracula: The Company of Monsters was a series published in 2010 by Dynamite Entertainment; 2010 was quite a year for Dracula comics! This series lasted for 12 issues and was based on a concept by Kurt Busiek with writer Daryl Gregory and artist Scott Godlewski bringing it to life. Busiek's name definitely helped attract attention to this series which might have been otherwise lost among the glut of other Dracula comics.
This series was set in contemporary times and featured a powerful business empire run by a family dynasty with an interest in the occult; they revive Dracula in the hopes of utilizing him as an asset, but Dracula isn't a man easily controlled. The series drew parallels between Dracula's royal pedigree and that of the contemporary business people. Easily the most interesting element of this series is that Bram Stoker's novel Dracula does not appear to be the series' primary text of reference, instead delving into the historical record of Vlad Dracul, intermixed with lore of Vlad's life and death from his native land. This gave Dracula: The Company of Monsters a different texture than many other Dracula comics.
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