{"id":20510,"date":"2018-06-17T05:00:33","date_gmt":"2018-06-17T09:00:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/craigzablo.com\/?p=20510"},"modified":"2021-03-23T16:38:59","modified_gmt":"2021-03-23T20:38:59","slug":"how-do-you-steal-from-dracula-stephan-franck-knows","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/?p=20510","title":{"rendered":"How Do You Steal From Dracula? Stephan Franck Knows!"},"content":{"rendered":"
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I’ve been singing the praises<\/a> of Stephan Franck (writer & artist) since I discovered his Silver graphic novels which he describes as\u2026<\/p>\n

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\u2026 an original universe built around Bram Stoker\u2019s original Dracula, and it begins 40 years after the events of the novel, into the noir\/pulp era of the 1930s. You meet James Finnigan, who is the most notorious conman\/gentleman-thief of his day, as he teams up with Rosalynd \u201cSledge\u201d Van Helsing (granddaughter of the original Van Helsing, and altogether the last of the Van Helsings), to steal a mystical treasure hidden in Dracula\u2019s castle. Finn, of course, brings his known associates\u2014a fun assortment of conmen and grifters of all kinds\u2014as well as the kind of amoral attitude that puts him immediately at odds with Sledge. Lastly, the team enlists Tao Leu (or more accurately, he enlists himself), who is a 10-year-old boy with the gift of second sight and who might be the biggest scoundrel of them all.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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