Alien Freak- Cook talks with an accent,that coupled with the fact that he's swarthy, has marked him for life. Racial profiling, alas, has come to the Vampire Bed and Breakfast.

Aliens
Free marketers from outer space. You know, these guys owned the entire planet, but no, that wasn't good enough...

The Bacilli- The anthrax sent to the scouts in place of the sea monkeys mutates into even bigger slime like Securities Analysts and Bush administration hacks.

Black Out During the Enron celebration, note the happy acknowledgment of disaster, knowing that there's payola coming from it. Like the California power shortages.

Blood from a Vampire!
An Enron type transaction knows no bounds, just ask the Department of Defense, among others. New and Creative ways of making money can be seen in such things as the establishment of the Department of Homeland Security. These free marketers are a clever bunch.

Compassionate Vampire This silly little twist on the Compassionate Conservative moniker in just as sincere. Vladu has been seduced by the power of Ken Lay's brain, alas, and actually believes he is compassionate.

Conga Line Enron dancing means following the other person, blindly, happily, in one market driven boogie of ecstasy. The phrase "Make your Own Markets" is sort of a "Glory to God in the Highest" in market terms. See Blood from a Vampire, above.

Contract An Enron specialty. Take, for example, the contract with the University of California system. After the fall of Enron, things sort of went south, surprise, surprise. But besides that, our nuclear labs serviced by the Enron-contracted UC system are fairly well reeking with fraud and mismanagement. Any connection? Who knows? Who cares?

Dispensationalists There are Christians who are sort of free marketers for Christ, lord help us all.

Hero Worship An Enron specialty. This was a corporations made up of many stars. The fundamental thought behind The Revenge of the Vampire Bed and Breakfast was an internet article about Enron as a cult. Upon researching further, I found good evidence for blind worship of so-called free market forces. Strange Gods. Of course, our vampire, Vladu, accidentally finds himself an object of worship.

Henry Kissinger - The Former Secretary of State under Nixon resurfaced recently as a dispassionate investigator into Saudi funded 9/11. Give me break. His type is as eternal as Satan.

Homeland Security - Never works quite like its supposed to, but boy, is there money to be made on these contracts. Yahooie!.

Sheep Whenever you see anything with a gun in the comic, think MPRI or Dyncorp. The fact that the sheep were sex slaves at Dyncorp stems from a true story. Lord knows, the entire comic is based on true stories which are hidden away like skeletons in a closet.

Patriotic Following free market forces is patriotic, even if those forces are really somebody telling someone else what to do. I can understand why rich CEO's can see the government funding of large multi-nationals as being patriotic. But for an average Joe to find this patriotic, well, that's just stupid, because the same thing that happens to the Vampire Bed and Breakfast is going to happen to our country if these guys get their way. Which they are.

John Poindexter - The former Iran/Contra guy who is in charge of the Pentagon's Computer Snooping stuff. My aching CIA. But...the importance of information comes through in the way information regarding Iraqi Weapons of Mass Destruction was manipulated to make the Administration argument for war. It's not just who knows what, but who knows how to use what's not what.

Donald Rumsfeld - The Secretary of Defense began his life as slime on the surface of a petri dish. Imagine that. In business terms, he's not a secretary as much as an integrator. In Government crony speak, this means a guy who knows EVERYBODY who believes in America as a cash cow for large multi-national corporations.

Sea Monkeys - They never look quite like they're supposed to. It reminds us that companies don't always tell the truth completely. Especially large multi-national corporations as out of control as our errant bacilli, or Ken Lay's Brain.

Thomas White - The former Secretary of the Army, Thomas White, began his life as slime on the surface of Enron. He spent his time in the administration writing contracts. Privatization of just about everything military seemed to be his goal while running the administrative end of the the army. I threw him into the story because one of the stupidest things our country has ever done is not question why the administration would keep him around long after Enron went belly up. Contracts. My gosh, it's all about contracts.

War And free Market forces are good for one another. I could have added Halliburton links, but I didn't.

Zombies Commentary on the media. I Original ideas and real news are two very rare commodities. Someday, we're going to look back on the late Clinton/early Bush years as the time when the fourth estate died but nobody seemed to notice.