If he’s an ”old school vampire,” he shouldn’t be out in the sunlight

Cidu Bill on Mar 2nd 2010

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Just saying…

Filed in Bill Bickel, Six Chix, comic strips, comics, humor, vampires | 16 responses so far

16 Responses to “If he’s an ”old school vampire,” he shouldn’t be out in the sunlight”

  1. Rebecca Mar 2nd 2010 at 11:11 pm 1

    Not if he was REAL old-school!

    In lots of vampire legends, vampires could walk in the sunlight. Dracula, IIRC, could, at least if Bram Stoker wanted him to in that particular chapter.

  2. Kit Mar 3rd 2010 at 12:13 am 2

    I can’t believe I know this, but in Twilight, vampires can walk in daylight.
    *is ashamed*

  3. PeterW Mar 3rd 2010 at 12:30 am 3

    Twilight is not “old school.” Twilight is sparkly emos kids who happen to drink blood.

  4. Rainey Mar 3rd 2010 at 01:31 am 4

    There are some movies that have vampires using sunscreen and dark glasses or contact lenses to enable them to walk in sunlight.

  5. Marshal Mar 3rd 2010 at 02:28 am 5

    I seem to recall that, as Rebecca says, in Brom Stoker’s novel Dracula could
    with some small sacrifices go out in the daylight. I think he was stuck in
    whatever form he had taken and something else but I can’t find the reference in the the text at the moment.

    Here is a pointer to the Project Gutenberg EBook of Dracula, by Bram Stoker.
    http://www.gutenberg.org/files/345/345-h/345-h.htm

    .

  6. Frank the curmudgeon Mar 3rd 2010 at 03:04 am 6

    No one’s topped George Hamilton. SP500 ?

  7. chuckers Mar 3rd 2010 at 04:57 am 7

    Classic literature people:

    http://www.snopes.com/language/literary/dracula.asp

  8. jjmcgaffey Mar 3rd 2010 at 06:14 am 8

    Your headline was exactly my thought when I read it. Even if the original Dracula didn’t have that problem. I really gotta read that book some time…

  9. Kamino Neko Mar 3rd 2010 at 07:11 am 9

    Sunlight didn’t become fatal for vampires until 1922 with Nosferatu.

    It’s not fatal in legends (at least none that I know of) - many, though not all, legendary vampires go dormant during the day, but they’re not killed by sunlight, they’re just nocturnal creatures. It’s not even an impediment for Varney, Ruthven, or Carmilla (the three most well known pre-Dracula fictional vampires) and Dracula only loses his supernatural powers.

    Even Nosferatu, some argue it wasn’t so much the sunlight as Ellen’s sacrifice that did it.

  10. Morris Keesan Mar 3rd 2010 at 08:32 am 10

    But if you look at Todd, you can tell by his school uniform that the “old school” being referred to is the Bela Lugosi Movie Vampire School, which is not the same school as Bram Stoker’s Dracula University. It’s been a while since I saw the film, but I think Bill’s right, that vampires from that particular old school shouldn’t be out in the daytime.

  11. Nicole Mar 3rd 2010 at 08:49 am 11

    Actually …. I think the old school is in refernce to his mode of dress. Newer vampires dress far more casually.

    And as many people have pointed out … in the classic Dracula, vampires could indeed walk in daylight.

  12. EngleRP Mar 3rd 2010 at 09:47 am 12

    Maybe he wears the Gem of Amara?

  13. Marshal Mar 3rd 2010 at 10:08 am 13

    By the way if you have never read Brom Stoker’s novel I highly
    recommend it. For the most part the story is told through personal
    diary entries and newspaper articles. These people kept some detailed
    diaries. 8^)

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  14. chuckers Mar 4th 2010 at 04:33 am 14

    For those that only read things on the intraweb thingy nowadays, check out this:

    http://dracula-feed.blogspot.com/

    Probably should have to start from the earliest bits.

    I happened to have been reading the book and thought about doing it as a blog (with van Helsing doing podcasts) not 2 weeks before someone went ahead and did it. Thus proving there are no original ideas anymore. Don’t think they did the van Helsing podcast though.

  15. Casey Mar 9th 2010 at 05:07 pm 15

    I’m surprisded they let a steroetypical old-school vampire have the name Todd in this comic

  16. mitch4 Mar 9th 2010 at 06:19 pm 16

    Dunkel ist das Leben, ist der Tod(d).

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