He’s an Undead Superman so what he wants is for Starfire to feed him solar radiation stripped of the harmful ultraviolet wavelengths that burn him. Except, she refuses to. The thing is, her blood acts as a miraculous super-tonic for vampires, enabling them to do all kinds of things, including walk in the sun without being burnt. Why doesn’t he just bite her?
Let’s say he doesn’t do this because he doesn’t know about the properties of her blood, doesn’t even know she’s immune to turning. Either Nightwing didn’t tell him or he thinks biting her wouldn’t work because then she’d be in complete agony until she turns, at which point she can’t absorb the sunlight she’d need to empower him. Why doesn’t he just use the vampiric power of hypnotism to MAKE her feed him clean energy?
Jack Hawksmoor starts turning into a vampire because the world’s cities are being overrun by the Undead. Apart from the fact that this sets up major issues down the line for what (or who) these vampires are going to eat, that’s not how Jack’s powers were ever shown to work. He was redesigned by advanced alien tech to live in and commune with cities, not with their inhabitants. He should just register urban metropoli going dead and empty, not start mimicking the traits of their unliving inhabitants.
Jenny Sparks, where do we start? She was the Spirit of the 20th Century, that’s why she’s dead. Vampires taking over in the 21st century should have no effect on her whatsoever. The only Spirit that could potentially get transformed is Jenny Quantum, the Spirit of the 21st century, but she seems fine.
At no point is it ever explained just how Damien Wayne, uniquely amongst potentially billions of vampires, manages to retain his ‘soul’. Is it his demon blood? The traces of Lazarus Pit resurrection in his body? Why is Damien able to remain himself while (almost) every other vampire on the planet is turned into a feral monster slavishly loyal to Nightwing?
The only other vampires who don’t seem to be loyal to Dick are Batwoman and Punchline. The former Damien manages - somehow - to wean off blood and restore her morality, while the latter just seems to be herself (selfish, amoral, criminal) only with fangs. Interestingly Batwoman has also been the recipient of a Lazarus Pit resurection, though Punchline hasn't. Other Lazarus Pit veterans we see turned include Red Hood and Wonder Woman; he may have been able to reject Nightwing's control, though he's hardly Undead long enough to be sure, while Wonder Woman very much does not, and ends up as King Dick's premier dragon.
The Jack Hawksmoor back-up suggests that the populations of whole cities were made Undead, so there’s a LOT of vampires out there looking to feed. The Blood Camps we see have, what, a few thousand people in them? And each one overseen by at least one metahuman. There must be millions of these camps in order to feed Nightwing’s followers every night, so where are they and how in holy hell is one Florida based Swamp Thing head supposed to be growing enough gloop to feed them all?
Leaving aside what the hell Barbara’s endgame actually was (other than just see Dick again), her post-turning ploy of making him feed off Harley’s poisoned blood shouldn’t have worked, because the only reason Harley is alive is because Dick left her that way while vampire Catwoman kept an eye on her. He knew she had Lex Luther’s poison blood when she vanished. He should never have risked feeding on her.
And once he was properly dead, why did Batgirl succeed him as Queen? She didn’t kill him herself, or best him in combat. She just tricked him, murdering their King. Diana should have taken her head off for such a gutter ruse.
Firstly, people turned into vampires are dead. Hal Jordan's ring should register that and go off to find someone else to wield it.
Secondly, where are the Green Lanterns? It's possible that the Guardians have ordered them not to get involved due to Nightwing's policy of non-involvement in extra-terrestrial affairs, but given the number of Lanterns who are, a) human and, b) friends of Jordans, it's not likely they'd have listened.
Thirdly, Issue #7 mentions the rumour that the Green Lanterns did come to Earth but were slaughtered by Nightwing's vampires. That's a stretch to believe. They'd have to come in complete ignorance of what was going on, and then after the massacre the Corps wouldn't come looking for revenge. All they'd have to do would be to ring-up a gigantic desk fan in Space to clear the smoke away and suddenly half of the planet is safe to land on.
