SERIES OVERVIEW

SERIES OVERVIEW

ARC ONE: “The SleepOver.”

Eight High School girls; two nice, four bad, all over eighteen, have a pajama party/mixer (excuse for young girls in underwear) at the local Rich Bitch’s house. Not knowing that a creepy tow truck driver is stalking them, the reader is left to assume that he is the killer in this homage to an eighties slasher flick, and just as he would normally begin braining teenagers left and right with his tire iron the opposite happens. The six bad girls kill him, turns out that they’re vampires and the entire party was a trap to seduce the two good girls into becoming new members of the crew. One of the good girls joins up with them and the heroine of the story turns into Xena Warrior Princess and cuts a bloody path through them to get home.

ARC TWO: “The road trip.”

The second arc picks up the day after arc one, Choclate, Cheerleader have been driving all night with Sidekick passed out in the back seat (technically she’s getting over being dead, not yet full vampire). They’re low on gas and seriously thirsty so they make a stop at a biker bar/pit stop, they pick a victim and get him outside to feed discreetly but they are caught in the act and it becomes a massacre, they wind up killing half the occupants of the bar and stealing a low rider to get away. The local hick sheriff arrives on scene and it turns out that his good for nothing son was killed in the incident. Now the girls have a pissed off shot gun wielding cop to deal with. He catches up to them and blows a hole through Chocolate, the girls kill him (with some difficulty) they bury Chocolate in the ground with the Sheriff’s body on top. Cheerleader and Sidekick have a long conversation through the night on the makeshift gravesite splitting a bottle of Jose Cuervo. During this conversation we get a good deal of vampire lore including an explanation of why these vamps can move about in sunlight. At the end the night the Sheriff’s blood and the time under ground have healed Chocolate and the girls dig her out of the ground.

ARC THREE: “The Hunter.”
The third arc introduces the character of Alexander, a young creature hunter. The villains of this piece are a gang of werewolves who prey on and disguise themselves as truck drivers and bikers. We spend some time following the wolves getting a grizzly introduction to their feeding habits, then the hunter is introduced, he’s young and reckless and very good at what he does, a wonderfully excessive action set piece featuring Harley Davidsons and a semi truck ends with the hunter killing off the wolves, then comes the twist; he returns to the college campus where he is a student and sneaks into his girlfriends all female dorm, when she turns over in bed we realize that she is the Heroine from the first story arc.

ARC FOUR: “Rock me like an animal.”
We discover that Heroine’s boyfriend unbeknownst to her is a slayer by night and a rocker by earlier that night, he is the front man and singer songwriter in a band, all of his songs have a mythological spin, he sings songs that are autobiographical but the rest of the world just thinks he’s into mythology. This issue will feature him singing a song with vague lyrics about thirst and longing and death inter-cut with scenes of him hunting vampires. Meanwhile dead bodies begin popping up on campus, young girls drained of blood and severely beaten, this causes great stress in her heart because she knows it’s a vampire and is convinced that her old classmates have come to finish what they started in her last year of high school. A sorority is throwing a party, Chocolate, Cheerleader and Side-kick crash the party, teach the girls how to play the drinking game they enjoyed during their parties. After the three vampire girls kill off a few sorority sisters they leave the sorority and a sign lets us know that they are not even in the same state as Heroine, it’s at about that time that we discover that the vampires killing off Heroine’s classmates is in fact Bob the truck diver from the first issue. Heroine gets into a violent altercation with him, and is assisted by her boyfriend at this point they both realize they have more in common than they thought.


ARC FIVE: “The Undead Prince.”
We pick up on the continuing adventures of Chocolate, Cheerleader and Side-Kick. We open with the vampire girls in a sky rise apartment; they have killed and fed on the tenants. As the girls sleep they are visited by an apparition, a Dracula wannabe vampire. Basically this is a story about how power corrupts, there’s this aristocrat who becomes a vampire he feeds daily and becomes powerful enough to turn into bats, wolves, mist and all that old Christopher Lee stuff. He wants to make the three girls his brides they are not really interested but somewhat tempted by the comforts and safety. Meanwhile the Heroine and her boyfriend deal with the revelations of last issue we get a very small amount of back-story on him, but not much I like him better mysterious.


ARC SIX: “That old feeling.”
All right so it should be abundantly obvious now that all the tension in this book comes from keeping Side-Kick and Heroine apart, so before the tension gets cold they will be reintroduced. Just as Heroine has gotten close to her new boy and Side-Kick has become a true member of Chocolate’s crew, the pair will be thrust together again, this story will hinge on the theme of loyalty. Will side-kick side with her vampire sisters, or the first love of her life; will Heroine see her former friend as they were when they were children and try to save her, or will she see her as an undead monster and give her a stake to the heart and an axe to the neck. I have no idea but I promise you one thing, only one of them is making it out of this alive. By the way, there’s lots of violence and sexual content on top of the psychological underpinnings.