Undead Chippendales

[witchwillow.livejournal.com]

Quoted from this article which is quoting an interview:

__________________________________

In discussing the series Hamilton refers to the biggest selling point of the comic-book version of her novel - getting to see the Vampire wet-dream character visually for the first time:

"Jean Claude is about 200 years old, and is incredibly gorgeous," Hamilton said. "He's a walking, talking fantasy, and has a couple hundred years to practice being really good at that. He's the manager of Guilty Pleasures, which is a vampire strip club where you can also see werewolves and were-leopards and other creatures take off their clothes."

__________________________________

I remember when JC was a manipulative undead SOB who'd spent a couple hundred years being toyed with and manipulated and learning to manipulate others. I remember when I liked him because he was moving beyond the horrors of his own past and his own mistakes and what others had done to him and was cooly carving out his life and standing firmly on it. I could like him but not approve of him or how he was manipulating the situation for Anita(who was my pov protagonist as a reader).

And now he's that guy with his shirt ripped off on the cover of a romance novel. He's become an object.

Comments

[catskin.livejournal.com]

I remember him being around 300 to start, then getting bumped up to 400. Weren't there hints in Circus of the Damned that his "original century" was when the musketeers were about?

[mariakatarina.livejournal.com]

Yeah, I remember those hints too. And there was some description of clothing in a painting he had of Asher and Julianna. It was that old-French, musketeer style (I know it's gotta have a better name than that, but I'm not a historical clothing expert)

[catskin.livejournal.com]

Lol, me either, but I'm pretty sure we'd be talking seventeenth century if JC really was around in the time of the muskeers. By my calculations, that puts him as at least 300 years old. Possibly older, but definitely no younger.

Of course, it's possible LKH will reveal in the next book he was a twenty-year-old virgin when he became a vampire and just has a fetish for musketeer outfits.