Thank you Alan! I’m glad you enjoyed it. Specifically, I’m glad you enjoyed several of my favorite things about it — that it’s a stand-alone, that our vampires have a separate parasite inside that animates them, and that the cross has more to do with the creature’s mind than it does an inherent power (one thing common in supernatural creatures in numerous cultures is that they’re often very Obsessive Compulsive — both Europe and Japan had folklore where vampires felt compelled to count things like rice, even to the point of staying out in the sun too long).

I hadn’t heard of Michael T. Gilbert’s comic, but I’m definitely going to have to check it out, along with all the other comics people have compared us to so far. (And I can promise that there will be guns sooner or later.)

Found your tale via Eric Palicki, who gives good link. I liked it. Being old and cynical, I generally am not crazy about horror tales, but this one is good. I especially liked that it was Done-In-One, presenting an entire story, and that it moved right along. No decompressed story here! I also liked that you made the vampire a separate entity. It’s a different take, but one that works. I also-also liked that the effect of the cross was delineated as the way the creature felt about it, thus the cross had no effect when the creature was awake. It was as if the creature’s own mortal dreads were causing him to fear the cross. Congrats, and keep up the good work, both the writing and the art.

Reminds me of Michael T. Gilbert’s Doc Stearn…Mr. Monster, only without the guns.