Friends of the Dead--a vampire webcomic

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Postby SusanTheCat » Mon Jan 12, 2009 2:05 pm

I read Dracula by Bram Stoker just to understand this comic better. ;)

(It was already on my reading list -- it just got bumped up a couple books!)

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Postby Maledicte » Mon Jan 12, 2009 2:16 pm

Classic horror literature for great justice! *highfive*
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Postby Shao Feng-Li » Mon Jan 12, 2009 4:43 pm

I've read it all so far. Can't wait for more :D
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Postby Maledicte » Mon Jan 12, 2009 9:33 pm

Fwee! Hooray! I love you. I love you all. I would probably die for anyone who actually reads my comic. But that would suck, because then there would be no more comic.
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Postby Maledicte » Wed Jan 28, 2009 3:09 pm

Page!

Dracula cusses a bit more.
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Also, a bonus comic jabbing at the "Twilight" phenomenon, featuring Dracula.
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Postby Sanji07 » Thu Jan 29, 2009 2:12 pm

What's in the pit? o.o
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Postby Shao Feng-Li » Thu Jan 29, 2009 5:43 pm

If only you updated more!

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I can't wait to find out about the pit!
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Postby Maledicte » Sun Feb 01, 2009 3:39 pm

Not really an update, just forgot to include this last time.

Expect quite a bit of religious discussion. After about 200 pages or so.
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Postby Maledicte » Thu Feb 05, 2009 1:29 pm

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I said this on my DA page, but if you want me to hurry up with the comic, bug the everliving daylights out of me! I'm a terrible procrastinator and I really need to stop being one. Don't be shy because "oh she's busy" NO I AM NOT! I am just lazy. I welcome the bugs. Help me out, please. :)
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Postby Shao Feng-Li » Thu Feb 05, 2009 10:30 pm

Oh good :D Now I don't feel bad XD
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Postby Sanji07 » Fri Feb 06, 2009 5:15 pm

Wewt for teh holy wafters =D
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Postby Lady Kenshin » Fri Mar 06, 2009 9:53 pm

SirThinks2Much (post: 1285927) wrote:Not really an update, just forgot to include this last time.

Expect quite a bit of religious discussion. After about 200 pages or so.


LOL! I think the Count is correct this time...

Anyway, this comic is very cool! I'm almost finished with Dracula the novel, so this is quite fun to read. I love all the Victorian clothes, and I love Van Helsing! I like your Dracula, too. He's got personality.
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Postby Maledicte » Sun Mar 22, 2009 3:47 pm

Thanks, Lady Kenshin! and thanks to all for your patience.

I hated finals. I don't think much of this page either. XD

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Postby Maledicte » Mon Apr 27, 2009 11:31 pm

New page, next one will be up in a long while.

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Postby Sanji07 » Tue Apr 28, 2009 2:14 pm

Yaaay more Dracula. X3
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Postby Lady Kenshin » Tue Apr 28, 2009 2:26 pm

Poor Dracula... lol.
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Postby Ante Bellum » Tue Apr 28, 2009 9:03 pm

Real vampires! I like the thrown-in picture of them discussing religion.
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Postby Maledicte » Thu Apr 30, 2009 2:20 am

Thanks, guys! And welcome, Ante Bellum. Glad you're enjoying the comic so far. Sadly, all the bugging in the world won't get me to draw upcoming pages in the next couple of months...completely swamped with school and conventions, but fear not, the show will go on!
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Postby Ante Bellum » Sun May 03, 2009 11:51 am

Eh, I've got about a year until I go to another convention. But I can understand how busy one can get.
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Postby Maledicte » Tue May 05, 2009 11:16 am

I'm working on a whole bunch of (vampire-related, ha-ha, whaddyaknow) prints for convention as well as some other more experimental items, and also a little sampler comic for FOTD which will require a cover, a back cover graphic, and all that my wee bit of graphic design knowledge can muster up. I'll be posting all those up in this thread if anyone's interested.
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Postby Sanji07 » Thu May 07, 2009 11:30 am

*raises hand* I'm interested! /\^w^
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Postby Ante Bellum » Thu May 07, 2009 2:11 pm

Me too!
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Postby Maledicte » Thu May 07, 2009 5:23 pm

Yay! \^o^/ Interest has been generated!
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Postby Lady Kenshin » Fri May 08, 2009 4:36 pm

Ante Bellum (post: 1309950) wrote:Me too!


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Postby Ante Bellum » Fri May 08, 2009 8:25 pm

*raises other hand*
Does that could for double enthusiasm?
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Postby Sanji07 » Tue May 12, 2009 2:29 pm

Yay! I can't wait! =D
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Postby Maledicte » Wed May 27, 2009 12:07 am

A couple of people started watching my comic on DA and I felt guilty that they wouldn't be getting updates for a while, so I started pencilling the next page. Slowly.

In the meantime, here's a picture of Vlad before he became a vampire.
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Postby Sanji07 » Wed May 27, 2009 9:11 am

I never would have thought that your Dracula used to have a moustache. o_o XP Also, I've heard that Bram Stoker's Dracula was not based on Vlad the Impaler. 'Not sure if this is true, so you might want to look it up.
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Postby Maledicte » Wed May 27, 2009 10:47 am

HAhaha the mustache. I had debated so long if I was going to put the mustache in the comic...my initial FOTD Dracula sketch had no mustache and my friend and I really liked it, so it stuck. But I wanted to give him one in order to tie it in to the novel more, but when I gave him the mustache for the prologue he looked like Timothy Dalton from Hot Fuzz, so that was nixed. XD In the end I decided to drop it altogether for the sake of visual consistency.

You heard correctly. It's quite possible that Stoker just heard the name somewhere, thought "That sounds cool," and stuck it in. However I've been a fan of the Impaler/Count connection because I watched the movie by Francis Ford Coppola. XD Also when I found out that the fictional Dracula was not based on the real one, I kept the historical Dracula intentionally because he gave me something to work with in terms of character development.
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Postby Sanji07 » Sun May 31, 2009 1:21 pm

There does seem to be a strong connection between the Impaler Vlad and Dracula.
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