When Is a Bat Not a Bat?

I've always liked vampires.

The mythology is well established. Transylvania, the whole tooth thing, the cape, sleeping in a coffin and the transformation — turning into a bat and flapping into the night. Handy.

Seems pretty cool but then I started thinking about what it’s like from the bat’s point of view.

Not the vampire becoming the bat — that direction has been covered — but the bat that is the vampire. Does the bat have any idea he turns into a vampire? So I honed in on that idea, personified the little fella, threw him into a therapy session and the rest just kind of drew itself.

Basic Instincts — a new panel every Tuesday.