Disco Fries

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Haven’t drawn up a comic in a while, so here we are. The whole move towards a digital format has proven more difficult than anticipated, most notably due to my laptop that is nearly half a decade old. That might have to wait until i secure some better hardware, i don’t know.

At any rate, it’s a doodle that nicely sums up the Daybreakers experience for me. The movie has a decently interesting premise, and yet somehow always resorts to showers of gore or explosions instead of something actually worth watching. It’s pretty clear that they didn’t take themselves too seriously, which is a shame because of the aforementioned decently interesting premise.

One positive note is that the vampires explode when staked, which is amusing. Has anyone done that before? It’s way more entertaining than bursting into flames or melting or however else it’s depicted in alternate vampire lore. In contrast, the bat-monsters the vampires mutate into when starved of blood are decidedly less entertaining, and mostly just look clumsy. Imagine a mix of Bat Boy and the orcs from Lord of the Rings. Very goofy, right down to the webbed wing-like arms.