New characters pop in and out of the book with little to know exposition than something akin to “Hello, I’m here, I’ll be important later,” before slipping back into the shadows. This makes reading this issue a challenge. There is a lot of political intrigue and allusions to other events that new readers to this series aren’t privy to. So seeing an entire fleet taken down by creatures from the deep is a bit confusing, but on the plus side, Edison electrocutes himself to death, so there is that.ĭid I mention all of this action happens in the first four pages of the issue?įrom there, readers are introduced to Katherine Reed, a journalist, free-thinker, and vampire, who is a member of a secret organization who are conspiring to bring down the vampire British empire from the inside.

I really didn’t know anything about the Anno Dracula series until I started getting solicitations from Titan Comics, and knew even less when I started reading this issue. Unfortunately, for the rest of the world, Dracula and the rest of the vampires have summoned the monsters around them to sink the fleet to the bottom of the sea. It has been ten years since Dracula took control of the British empire, and it is time to celebrate. The combined forces of France, Germany, Russia, and forces funded by a private investor from America have launched an initiative to “liberate” England from Dracula. – via Wikipedia STEAMPUNK DRACULA VIA BOOK ADAPTATION Charles Beauregard, a (non-vampire) agent of the Diogenes Club, is sent to track the murderer down, and finds himself enmeshed in a plot to free England from Dracula’s rule. But all is not going smoothly for the new regime: Jack the Ripper stalks Whitechapel, murdering vampire prostitutes.

A virtual checklist of fictional vampires have come out of hiding and gained new social status. PREVIOUSLY IN ANNO DRACULA: Dracula has married the widowed Queen Victoria, and rules as Prince Consort. Based on the popular book series by Kim Newman, Anno Dracula 1895: Seven Days in Mayhem #1 gives us a tale of those trying to bring down Dracula’s rule of the British Empire.ĪNNO DRACULA 1895: SEVEN DAYS IN MAYHEM #1

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