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There's some interesting elements in this one, and it's certainly a good Valentine's Day story!
I like the female vampire, and I like the bat statues, thought the art seems really cramped in places. The ending is good, it's action packed and you don't see enough vampire bat slicing in comics!
Bottom of page 6 are some good panels, I especially like her looming over the bed. It's clean art, kind of in the Johnny Craig sense. I can't help but think page 3, panel 1 is drawn from a photo. It looks ... familiar.
Happy V(ampire)-Day!
Thank you Mr.K. for this beautifully black dark art. I loved the servant bowing her head when the mistress was greeting her guest. I agree the close-up was wonderful. I liked the fat bats. The sexy flying were-bat. The classic French sailor suit. Page four last panel, is he there just to break the fourth wall? "Are you looking at me?" For me it's a super panel when we finally see the bat's piggy faces. The shadowy figure on page six panel six had me confused a little. Then you see it's there to supply the bat slicer. The eyes of the wife's vampire form made me think of Frank Robbins' work. Fun stuff!
Aiiiee! Vampires! Bats! Vampire bats! Vampires that are controlled by vampire bats! In Europe! Which has no vampire bats! Aiiiee!
> In Europe! Which has no vampire bats!
What're you talking about? The greatest vampire bat of all time is from Europe.
And thus ends our Valentines Massacre 2020, thanks for the comments. I apologize for the lag in posts here over the last week. I've been dealing with a nagging case of pneumonia, but slowly recovering. Back in a bit with more... stay tombed...
I really like this one, too. There's something sweet about a vampiress going around killing everybody else but too in love with her husband to do him in. I'd expect him to be a little more upset at the end, but what do you want for ten cents?
Yeah, I really dig this gothic and melodramatic take on vampires. The inner struggle of a werewolf tale, the figurine fetish of a witch's curse--all the spookies rolled into one. I like the idea of a vampire haunting the night aswirl with familiars: Bats that are her bloodhounds, her henchmen, and her masters all at the same time. That's pretty cool stuff.
Zansky has several art habits that annoy me (all that zig-zaggy posterizing for one thing--just quit it with the pitch black backgrounds if you don't like it, Louis), but lord help me I love the man's weird, stiff work anyway. I had a LZ frame as the background on my phone for, like, eight years.
Happy Belated Valentine's Day!
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