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Well, that answered that question I had about whether stakes work on Strakoi. He's not dusted though at any rate.

I am guessing she means their true power is to talk themselves out of trouble. Now that he said that she'll have to resurrect him, and she hates that.

I am thoroughly enjoying this vampire story. It feels like moving back in time, and it isn't often we are brought back to around the time I started reading, which was in 2000. A friend forwarded Pete's strip where Torg is explaining elections to Kiki by using her toy balls, making Riff increasingly annoyed in the background. Had to read all that had happened until then, which took me two weeks of constant reading. Imagine going back and reading from the beginning now.

We didn't see enough of the vampires back then I think, so it is great to see them again. I like their differences too, all believable, such as that Vorpyr go into torpor from being staked while Vrykos die immediately. And none of them have odd powers, it is all vampiric. Mist is an old vampire thing - would love to see a bat though, but Sam's cape will have to do.

If you could have the power of one of these kinds, which would it be? Strong Vorpyr, mind-controlling Vrykos, or Strakoi who can walk in the sunlight. The last one, I think, just to be boring but practical. You could join Survivor and win lots of money, since everyone else would be weak from hunger but you'd always have a fresh food supply ... but I digress.

Apparently staking in the heart doesn't kill a Strakoi?

Either the shock of having his hands cut off cut, sliced the (presumably fake) "accent" right out of him, or Pete forgot to add the accent to his dialog.

I like Vistuvius. I'm keeping my fingers crossed he can be un-staked like a Vorpyr. (I love that we have a collective noun for them now. It's annoying typing out lysinda circle vampire all the time!)

Ack! Fixed the accent, I think!
The original mistake I blame on too much store multitasking. Tis' the season! Any mistakes I just made in attempting to fix the accent I blame on being a wee bit exhausted right now!

There's still an apostrophe too many in "ue're", ans in "You ue're too fast for me".

I should hope not.

We need a vampire type/power lesson week, Pete!

Apparently vampires literally have their hearts in the left side only - judging by the effectiveness of the one-boob armor.
As opposed to humans where the heart is in the center, only being slightly closer to the chest wall in the left side.

Personally, I'm not very keen on the frequent references to the really old arcs. Feels like the author is living in the past or something. But then again, I only began reading this comic early this year, so I won't have the same sense of nostalgia everyone else has.

I'm also not very keen on the vampires getting expanded on so much, simply because there's so much "secret societies of vampires" type stuff everywhere. Heck, I just rewatched Underworld last night.

Pete, I hope you are reading this, because I just wanted to thank you and say how much I LOVE the fact that this woman made a point of working hard to be faster and stronger, rather than just sitting back and letting it happen. Seriously, I don't see this done enough and it works out SO well!
Thank you!

I like her.

Did Dr. Vistuvius expect Urja to abstain from eating on his behalf?

"You were to fast for me!"


Seriously. Competent villains are an important part of any good story, and Urja just upped the game.

Yeah, I've tried to just ignore that part (and the lack of armor at other entry points). Given the general awesomeness of the storyline, I can let that go :)

There is good reason to go through the left side of the chest if you want to hit the heart. The center of the chest has the thickest bone of the entire rib cage-- the one all the actual ribs radiate from. However, the heart sticks out on the left, making it possible to stick a rapier or other blade through the ribs and hit the bottom of the left ventricle. Considering that wooden stakes are much softer and blunter than a sword or dagger blade it makes sense to go for the heart in that place and give yourself the highest chance possible of actually getting a kill on a vampire.

In fact, the original idea of staking a vampire in the original folklore wasn't to kill them but merely immobilize them in their coffin. You didn't have to put the stake in the heart and it could be an iron nail instead and work just as well-- in fact many coffins of suspected vampires had multiple stakes/nails in their heart, hands, and feet just to be sure. Why the heart? Beats me. But it gives the ability of (most) vampires in Sluggy to survive a stake to the heart a nice connection to the original folklore even if it probably wasn't Pete's original intent. :-)