Just a little one-shot this time and another opportunity to experiment with colours a bit.

Poor, poor Mina. Talk about a character that constantly gets the shaft (usually literally) in Dracula adaptations.

In Bram Stoker's novel Mina plays a key part in the destruction of Dracula by memorizing the train schedules and handling the administration of the group of vampire hunters. In the end it isn't a bunch of dudes with knives and guns who destroy Dracula (though they do help a bit) but an intelligent woman with a typewriter. Mina saves the day by being a big nerd, how awesome is that!

In most of the early Dracula movies Mina isn't anything more than a damsel in distress. And as if that wasn't bad enough, some schmuck actually came along and went: "Ooooh you know what would be great?! If this evil douchebag who kills babies actually turned out to be kind of nice (but not too nice because that isn't sexy) and fell in love with this beautiful victorian maiden, who can't possibly be all that interesting as a character because she isn't a vampire! Isn't that romantic!" THAT'S BULLSHIT IS WHAT THAT IS!!!

I think the only writer to properly characterize Mina Harker (outside of Bram Stoker himself naturally) is Alan Moore in his League of Extraordinary Gentlemen comics. Making Mina the leader of the league was a stroke of genius!

Then the movie comes along, and what happens? Not only does Mina not lead the league anymore, apparently she can't be useful at all unless she's a vampire! I swear, it's like people are going out of their way to screw this character over!

*Rant over*

The characters Count Dracula and Mina Harker were created by Bram Stoker.