Man, Dracula must REALLY like the sound of his own voice…
This week Dracula teases his master plan, while bringing Doc up-to-speed on the origins of his metamorphosis and the creation of the Fish-Vampires. But, never – NEVER – will he reveal his most guarded secret…the origin of the MULLET!
Seriously though, this page is interesting to me for a weird writerly reason. Ya see, Dracula fills Doc in on information that you already know (if you read The Lost Chapter of Dracula, that is), so the reader is a step ahead of Doc in that instance. However, at the end of the page Doc sees Dracula’s dastardly plan laid out before him, while you can only guess at what Doc found to be so shocking, hidden from the reader’s view on those blueprints. So, over the course of one page you (the reader) and Doc (the character) switch roles, from the informed to the uninformed. See, I told you it was a weird writer reason…
And, I must say, “Edison’s Mother, indeed!” I LOVE the last panel on this page. Danilo is the MASTER of what I like to call the “dramatic lighting from below technique”, and he pulls out all the stops here!
Anyway, be here NEXT WEEK when Dracula’s EVIL SCHEME is finally revealed! This one’s a DOOZY, folks – DO NOT miss it. I recommend having a flashlight on-hand so that you can recreate Doc’s dramatic reaction because in just 7 days you will be just as AGAST when you witness the true HORROR of Dracula’s plan! Make sure to RSS, Like, or Follow unless you hate HUGE reveals.
Oh, and many thanks to all those who voted for the Daredevils at Top Web Comic last week. We moved up the charts quite a bit! However, we’re still only in the mid-200s, so you’re going to have to keep on a’ keeping on clicking if you want to see the DDD proudly sitting on the front page. Once your fingers hurt from sustained, vigorous voting, take a load off at the ThreeOneFive café and enjoy a hot, steaming pile of Sunday Bonus Lunch. That whole last sentence sounds REALLY gross…
Anyways, till next week!
-Matt-
If that is a rocket ship, then I guess it would be relatively easy to build, as a vampire would not need the life support a living breathing person would, oh and it would be easy for DOC to sabotage.
If it is a new submarine, then it would also be relatively easy to build, as a vampire would not need the life support a living breathing person would, and maybe Doc could sabotage it?
If it is some kind of warhead then DOC could just sabotage it I’m sure (and I’m betting that Twitchy would be pretty mad that he missed out on making it go BOOM).
If, however, it is a Rocket/Submarine/Warhead hybrid then I want one (so Doc had better not sabotage it)!
Well, if you look closely at Page 15 you’ll see that Dracula already has a submarine of his own, so I think you can safely cross that option off your list.
Yes, but I said a NEW submarine, that other one is at least a page/week old…
BTW I’m impressed with how calm DOC is looking in the second to last panel, next we will see him sitting on the master’s throne with his feet up!
The idea was he´s trying to look confident, but that sort of diferences like “trying to look” and “being” are hard to show in a single draw… anyway in the last panel all confidence seems gone.
Exactly. In the script we described Doc in that panel as, “playing it tough, despite the circumstances.”
His feigned confidence in the previous panel makes his total breakdown in the final panel that much more dramatic, and as always, Danilo pulled it off quite nicely.
From his sweaty brow in panel #3, I picked up on that.
I just admire a man who can try to keep his cool around the prince of darkness (No Not Ozzy the other one).
I’m betting that Dracula underestimates him (Like he did with Harker and Van Helsing). I think Doc could probably do some major damage given ample time and resources.
Oh and I agree, Danilo could draw an honest politician and make it believable.
Hahahaha! Well, that would be really a hard task, even for Neal Adams!
I’m just gonna call it right now: This is how Dracula gets his moonbase. (Also, Joe is Mitzi McNinja’s father.)