The Ottawa Comic Book Guy

The recent article(s) on Charlton Comics I did have made me think about my own collection. I have a lot of DC (surprised?). I also have a fair share of Marvel Comics. Some Gold Key/Dells. A large number of Dark Horse Star Wars and Buffyverse. IDW. And one Dynamite comic (and what a dynamite comic) Which leads me to thinking that with the amount of comics past and present made by companies other than the Big Two, why don't I have more? Is it because I am too invested in the mainstream? Am I afraid to give something a chance? I don't seem to have problems for the most part when comics adapted to the big or small screen have changes (racial changes for the most part don;t bother me, for example, I am a person that has always believed that Bond was never just one man, that he was a bugaboo/persona; so a black Bond doesn't bother me. There are black Kryptonians, and Amazons, and possibly, white Wakandians so that doesn't bug me. Nor does switching gender or sexual prefere...

I preface this by saying that even though I live in Aylmer, I grew up in Ottawa and I have an affinity for the city that transcends what most people feel (except maybe Batman for Gotham City.) So I feel a point of pride in the comic/sci-fi world whenever something or someone makes it from our little burg. (Donal Logue as Harvey Bullock comes to mind right away.) So today I am going to review a book that I picked up at Ottawa Comiccon, inked by local artist Craig Taillefer, based on Bram Stoker's Dracula This book is a collection of a four-issue miniseries published by Caliber Comics. Written by Steve Jones, and penciled by Robert Schneiders and inked by Craig, this mini-series strives to be a faithful reproduction of the original novel by Bram Stoker. Well, as someone that has read the original novel on numerous occasions, I can say, they got it right. The writing captured the essence of the novel and I didn't feel that anything was left out, and since there are several si...