Tombsy's cult is the Cult of K'Z'K.

Wilden (and maybe Skip) were driving the 'Cult of 'The Release'

Which is probably all pretty academic now, although Meander etc may yet not know that collectively they were the same organisation.

With Alice back now, she might get by with a half 'n half

Now that Sylvia looks to be playing a significant role in this arc, I wonder if we'll get any of her vampire origin story.

Well, it appears that Sylvia has recovered enough to exert mind control. Full-on illusion or just getting into their heads?

Mind you Vamps seem to do that anyway. They have their toothy creepy Vampire aspect and their 'normal appearance'. I've never really been sure whether the normal look is just what people see in their heads (Like Dr Who's 'Perception filter'), or whether they actually morph their appearance.

The question is I guess, is Alice still around?

IIRC to make her become a Vampire Sylvia would feed off her for 3 days, then Alice would drink Vampire blood, embrace vampness and become a Vampire.

So she may be a work in progress.

Starting a new circle of her own would likely be fairly high on Sylvia's list, provided she can get enough sustenance. Also getting intel on what's been going on while she's out would be a priority too.

OTOH, she'll be pretty hungry and Vamps in a feeding frenzy have some similarities to sharks in a pool of offal.

Is Sylvia saying only LYSINDA can make more Lysinda circle vampires? That would be a large development, and against what most of us have been assuming that Sam or Sylvia's blood would do the trick. The Lysinda circle maybe SOL now with their queen gone.

Hmm. Interesting... So perhaps the "baiting" of the Vrykos-vamps (responding to Sam's resurfacing) was not an accident, rather part of a plan...

I only rarely spec correctly. So pay no attention. Move along...

Hard to say. She may have just been trailing off and picking up on another line of thought, but it does seem like the pause was just for remembering her name. However, there's a couple things to think about. She may been going to say that she can't do it without Lysinda's permission, not without Lysinda. The other thing is that Lysinda always gave a choice. In other words, it may be less about capability and more about rules that prevents her from making other vamps (rules she may forsake upon learning of Lysinda's death). Either way, she still needs more blood, so it wouldn't seem prudent to give any of hers.

More long-term spec for this storyline, but I have a feeling this will be the chapter in which we find out why Torgamous looked exactly like Torg.

Now that's a disturbing image in today's comic, and if it's something Lysinda leaving Massachusetts to flee, then it surely must be bad news.

I wonder if Lysinda, being an elder vampire, have some kind of way to be resurrected.
Like Alucard in the Helsing series: "I was resurrected by the immense amount of blood spilled".

In the case of Lysinda, I would guess that her remaining circle would need to do something, probably a ritual, probably involving sacrificing one of their own.

She was staked and burnt with sun. I doubt she survived. That's some narly abilities otherwise.

Yeah, but she's dating Satan, so that might help her out.

Dr. Vistuvius is Strakoi. He has the same floating eye stuff and a pharmaceutical company named "Hemovirlen" invokes blood. More specifically, Daryl is talking to Dr. Vistuvius. Most of his buildings and staff were fluxed, which is why he is "homeless."

That makes good sense. Can you provide ref links? :)

Nice catch Lord Golbez! http://www.sluggy.com/comics/archives/daily/20150914 . Note that he has OCCULT connections as well!