Yes, NOTES. This is really nothing more than me running off at the mouth like I tend to do, but if you're either interested in knowing what was going through the twisted minds of the artists during the creation of this arc, or if you want to be in on all the in-jokes and cameos, OR if you're just really, really bored... you might enjoy this.

Page One

"I need a vampire," I said to my sister, Kitten. The original sketch for Count Blah (our nickname for him... anyone see the short-lived 'Greg the Bunny' on Fox?) was pretty much exactly like that third panel there. There was an alternate sketch of a more modern-pretentious, Lestat-inspired vampire but he wound up looking like a strung-out drag-queen hooker with unfortunate dental work. Blah's costume was modelled after Bela Lugosi's Dracula outfit.

Cameos on this page include:
Mark and Aereal from Glamourlust. I put Mark in a french-maid costume because I was asked to do a guest comic for Glamourlust a while back and that's the outfit I'd put him in there. I fel tit wa sonly fitting to continue to torture Mark, who is my favourite Glamourlust character.
Writer and Aubs! These are friends of mine and I didn't ask before jamming them into the BG... see, that's Writer there looking lost while Aubs is the nekkid fellow.
Marvel's Chamber. In case you hadn't noticed, I'v fallen back in love with Jonothon Starsmore. So he's moping at a table by himself.

Page Two

I am not happy with the last panel as you cna see the rest of Count Blah sort of... vanished. I was in a hurry to get this one up. I giggled muchly over Blah's expression in the first panel as I drew it. Cameos include:
Mercedes and Yu dressed as a hooker and a pimp. I almost dressed them as Godzilla and Rodan but this was easier.
Kitten and N. Yes, self-inserts are allowed in your own damn comics. Look at Jhonen.
The Mansonite in this comic in no way, shape or form resembles anyone we know. Really. I mean that. And if it did, it was meant in good fun with no ill will.

Page 3

Kitten helped me out here, as I am an over-worked wretch with no attention span. The cameos here are obvious if you've seen Kitten's page... it's the Pervert Guy and the Gay Guy from 'Pointless Fun!' The Perv is dressed as Chucky from the Child's Play movies, and the Gay Guy is a straigth man. Get it?

Page 4

Normal Guy from 'Pintless Fun' is dressed as one of the Resevoir Dogs, which Kitten was watching when she drew this one. I LOVE the Pervert Guy... "Suck it, bitch." Kitten's been known to use thta line, now that I think about it...

Page 5

I am so proud of Jinks' costume. It's a little less cute here than my original sketch due to a slight head-angle alteration but... I still like it. FrankenSimon turned out pretty cute too. Deb's costume was meant to look sort of like Gary Oldman's in 'Bram Stoker's Dracula' when he was young and bopping around London. Kinda that time period anyway... I fucked up his cloak tho and tried to hide it. Deb is seriously incapable of making a dull entrance.

The cameos here are Cory and Derik from Deadwood. Diibish, I never asked if I could borrow them but please don't eat my brains for doing so. And for the record, Derik's calling DEB the pretentious ass.

Page 6

Goffer than THOU. The joke here is that there's this band called Bauhaus and they did this song called "Bela Lugosi's Dead." Bauhaus was a big goth band and the song went on to be slapped onto various goth-y compilations and such. The fact that the song plays right after Deb mentions it seems to imply he has psychic control over the DJ or something.

I had SO much fun drawing Pervert Guy. And I've been waiting to use that 'bone' line in something ever since hearing it on 'Downtown.'

This was probably the FASTEST page I've ever done... I drew it and inked it in like, an hour or so because my mother appeared and was going to spirit me away to hand out candy. I normally take MUCH longer, altho the end result may not show the effort. I usually sketch a page and then get lazy and leave the inking for later, usually inking in spurts and then pleading wrist cramps so I can sit on my ass. But I love you all so much I busted my ass on this one.

Now... wasn't that dull? Yes. I know. Go away.