Comments on: Comic Book Alphabet of Vampires – I

By: Policy shmolicy

Policy shmolicy — Fri, 23 Jul 2010 14:28:00 +0000

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By: Brian Cronin

Brian Cronin — Thu, 29 May 2008 21:58:08 +0000

My guess, thok, is that it was “Oh no, you’re making me want to read a Johns comic book.”

By: Thok

Thok — Thu, 29 May 2008 21:13:02 +0000

Ah, geez, Thok, I wish you hadnâ€™t told me that.

OK, are you disappointed by the idea that Team 13 isn’t canon, or the idea that Johns is trying to make it canon?

(I assume it’s the second, but I’m not sure I understand being disappointed by either idea, unless you really dislike Johns continuity fetish.)

By: Jacob T. Levy

Jacob T. Levy — Thu, 29 May 2008 17:11:31 +0000

Pretty sure that the time-lost Animal Man had coffee with the Phantom Stranger, Immortal Man, and Jason Blood at an outdoor cafe in the daytime– no vampires in sight.

By: Brian Cronin

Brian Cronin — Thu, 29 May 2008 04:56:17 +0000

I got that, Walid – your comment just inspired me to think about comparing the two, and in comparison, I think Bennett is a bit more complex and had more of a direction.

By: wwk5d

wwk5d — Thu, 29 May 2008 04:21:53 +0000

Actually Brian, my point was that Angel took elements from this character…the noble Vampire who wouldn’t drink human blood and all that and fought evil. Didn’t mean to imply they were the same character. I wonder if Joss Whedon read this series when he was younger?

By: Michael

Michael — Wed, 28 May 2008 21:41:35 +0000

“Seriously, â€œArchitecture and Moralityâ€ is seemingly non-canon [or more precisely is atheist/agnostic about canon: Dr. 13 would want it that way.] However, I think Johns is amused by the idea of making the team canon, and has started doing some small things towards that end in Booster Gold and Action Comics.”

Ah, geez, Thok, I wish you hadn’t told me that.

By: Brian Cronin

Brian Cronin — Wed, 28 May 2008 19:53:57 +0000

Did this character appeared in Morrisonâ€™s Animal Man run, when Buddy was stuck in the past or something, and he was having tea with Jason Blood, or am i mizing my characters?

He MAY have been one of the characters Buddy sees in Limbo.

I don’t recall offhand.

By: Brian Cronin

Brian Cronin — Wed, 28 May 2008 19:53:23 +0000

always thought the reason Iâ€¦Vampire became the â€œstarâ€ of the book was because the anthology books werenâ€™t doing so well, and DC thought giving them a regular character/feature would help. I figured that was also why the Creature Commandos took over Weird War Tales. Maybe thatâ€™s one for the CBULR column, though.

Could be true!

By: Brian Cronin

Brian Cronin — Wed, 28 May 2008 19:52:56 +0000

So does anyone know how heâ€™s back to life? Since DeMatteis kind of killed him in Dr. Fate.

Yeah, but he’s been killed before.

I think when you’re working with people who are undead already, it’s not too hard to bring them back to life.

By: Brian Cronin

Brian Cronin — Wed, 28 May 2008 19:52:07 +0000

Trivia: reportedly, Stephen DeStephanoâ€™s DC tryout was a parody called â€œIâ€¦ Baby Vampire.â€ (I donâ€™t think it was ever published.)

Ha! That’s awesome.

By: Brian Cronin

Brian Cronin — Wed, 28 May 2008 19:51:18 +0000

Seems very much like Angel, no?

I think he was a bit more complex and had more of a direction than Angel.

Angel didn’t seem to even DO much for decades after he got his soul.

By: Bruno

Bruno — Wed, 28 May 2008 19:06:19 +0000

Did this character appeared in Morrison’s Animal Man run, when Buddy was stuck in the past or something, and he was having tea with Jason Blood, or am i mizing my characters?

By: Jacob T. Levy

Jacob T. Levy — Wed, 28 May 2008 18:12:47 +0000

The Cult of the Blood Red Moon popped up as the antagonists in Moench’s 1980s Spectre series, IIRC. (And they were namechecked in Gaiman’s Books of Magic.)

By: Thok

Thok — Wed, 28 May 2008 16:12:16 +0000

So does anyone know how heâ€™s back to life? Since DeMatteis kind of killed him in Dr. Fate.

I assume Geoff Johns does.

Seriously, “Architecture and Morality” is seemingly non-canon [or more precisely is atheist/agnostic about canon: Dr. 13 would want it that way.] However, I think Johns is amused by the idea of making the team canon, and has started doing some small things towards that end in Booster Gold and Action Comics.

By: jazzbo

jazzbo — Wed, 28 May 2008 15:55:18 +0000

I always thought the reason I…Vampire became the “star” of the book was because the anthology books weren’t doing so well, and DC thought giving them a regular character/feature would help. I figured that was also why the Creature Commandos took over Weird War Tales. Maybe that’s one for the CBULR column, though.

By: Travis Clark

Travis Clark — Wed, 28 May 2008 14:05:40 +0000

Personally, this was one of the few “non-capes” comics I read growing up…. that and Jon Sable: Freelance. I actually looked forward to reading this every month.

By: Greg Burgas

Greg Burgas — Wed, 28 May 2008 14:01:32 +0000

So does anyone know how he’s back to life? Since DeMatteis kind of killed him in Dr. Fate.

By: Matthew Johnson

Matthew Johnson — Wed, 28 May 2008 13:20:49 +0000

Trivia: reportedly, Stephen DeStephano’s DC tryout was a parody called “I… Baby Vampire.” (I don’t think it was ever published.)

By: Jeff Ryan

Jeff Ryan — Wed, 28 May 2008 12:59:09 +0000

There are only so many noble-vampire stories you can tell before you start mixing in the major plot points of all of them together. And the noble-vampire story is, historically, more of a werewolf story. (Vampires traditionally are the external evil coming to get you: werewolves are the internal evil coming out. A first-person vampire story is really a werewolf story with a shave.)