this book must be read in the absolute format. bigger pages to appreciate the art a little more and tons of very interesting bonus stuff.

..Dude you are totally right O_o never caught that.

I didn’t watch the film until three years after reading the Graphic Novel, in an English class for the pre-holidays last lesson when we’d been studying Dorian Gray. And I learned, or rather deduced, this fun fact.

Dorian is traditionally drawn or portrayed as a young, blonde man of the Victorian age. However, an Executive producer Fella told the scriptwriter of the film that they needed Dorian and a few others to beef up the cast, and informed him that it would be canon because there is yet another “League” – their adventures never fully disclosed in the series – whose portraits appear on that very cover shown above.

Whatever dimwitted idiot was told this failed to notice the picture of a blonde young man in Victorian clothing and a cane, clearly labelled “Dorian Gray”, just above the giant skull; instead, they turned to that Portrait labelled “Sir Francis Varney”, just behind the headless, armless roman statue, Varney being notable for being the first fictional Vampire with fangs and the tendency to whine about how terrible it is being a vampire, etc. However, he was created a full 42 years before Dorian, and reflects the fashion of the time.

Thus, while in the books Dorian remains an aristocratic old queen trapped both in the body of a nubile blonde and the proverbial closet, in the film he’s portrayed by Stuart Townsend as a vampiric, curly-haired gentleman who the true Dorian would have thought of as his grandfather.

Oh, what it is, to laugh at people who don’t pay attention to literature! Here endeth the smug.