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Overview

Life sucks for Dave Marshall.

The girl he’s in love with doesn’t know he exists, he hates his job, and ever since his boss turned him into a vampire, he can’t go out in daylight without starting to charbroil.

Undead life in its uncoolest incarnation yet is on display in this cinematic, supernatural drama told with gallons of humor and hemoglobin. In striking, colorful, B-movie sty;e artwork and light-hearted, intelligent writing by Jessica Abel, Gabe Soria, and Warren Pleece, Dave Marshall’s story comes alive – in a vampiric kind of way.

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Overview

Life sucks for Dave Marshall.

The girl he’s in love with doesn’t know he exists, he hates his job, and ever since his boss turned him into a vampire, he can’t go out in daylight without starting to charbroil.

Undead life in its uncoolest incarnation yet is on display in this cinematic, supernatural drama told with gallons of humor and hemoglobin. In striking, colorful, B-movie sty;e artwork and light-hearted, intelligent writing by Jessica Abel, Gabe Soria, and Warren Pleece, Dave Marshall’s story comes alive – in a vampiric kind of way.

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For Dave Marshall, life consists of working ridiculous hours at the Last Stop, an aptly named 24/7 L.A. convenience store. When not selling nachos or adult diapers or rotating the last few remaining hot dogs, this overworked clerk struggles to please his creepy boss, Radu, who also happens also to be his Vampire Master. But whenever he has a minute free, he fantasizes about Rosa, a beautiful mortal who seems enamored of the dark side; sometimes too much for her own good….
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Dave is a poor vampire, working the night shift at the 24-hour convenience store run by his vampire master, Lord Radu Arisztidescu, who thinks Dave is pretty much a wuss as a bloodsucker. Truth is, Dave would rather steal his nutrition from a blood bank than kill the innocent. But this choice leaves him weak and vulnerable to more predatory types like alpha-vampire surfer dude Wes, who's making a move on Rosa, the Latina gothic babe Dave has his eye on. There's plenty of humor with Dave's friend Jerome acting as a Clerks-like foil, coming over to Dave's work at night when the black-eyeliner crowd comes by ("the Running of the Goths"). Life Sucksalso gets a good deal of mileage out of the ironic distance between the romantic visions that Rosa and her mortal crowd have of the vampire lifestyle and the grimy reality of Dave's life as an eternal wage slave. Even if it doesn't pan out satisfactorily (the conclusion seems particularly truncated), Abel and Soria's light approach, combined with Pleece's bright, Technicolor art, gives the book an entertaining Joss Whedon gloss to its Gen-Y bloodsucking melodrama. (Feb.)

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Dave Miller is a vampire. He spends his nights working at the Last Stop, a 24-hour convenience store in LA, endlessly rotating the hot dogs and restocking the pork cracklins. His boss Radu, aka Lord Arisztidescu, is a 450-year-old vampire who drives around in a Cadillac and busts Dave's chops about not punching out for break. Dave drinks bottled blood and won't hunt humans; all his friends think he's a wuss. Soon Dave falls for a human woman; Rosa is a Goth and vampire wannabe. They date—a triple feature of vampire movies and a romantic moonlit walk on the beach—but before things get serious, Wes, Dave's "big brother," also takes an interest in Rosa. Can Dave convince Rosa that the "life" isn't so great before it's too late? Life Sucks contains a little bit of everything: lust and violence; Mexican soap operas; the running of the Goths; psycho surfer vampire dudes; blood brew. This graphic novel teaches important life lessons, such as: sometimes our decisions really can come back to bite us. The full-color art reminds me of the work of the great Steve Ditko. Dave is an interesting mix of naivete and good intentions—it is his refusal to consummate his relationship with Rosa, even after she discovers what he is and gives consent, that brings on disaster. Life Sucks contains vulgarities (s-bomb), comic book violence and horror movie gore. Highly recommended for graphic novel collections geared towards older teens and adults, and a must for horror fans. Reviewer: George Galuschak
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The REAL truth about vampires: not a glamorous elite but low-rent class of outcasts. Sad and very funny-and a YALSA top-ten pick.-M.C. (LJ7/08)


—Martha Cornog

Product Details

  • ISBN-13: 9780312642914
  • Publisher: Square Fish
  • Publication date: 9/28/2010
  • Pages: 208
  • Sales rank: 716,809
  • Age range: 14 - 18 Years
  • Product dimensions: 5.90 (w) x 8.40 (h) x 0.50 (d)

Meet the Author

Jessica Abel
Jessica Abel

Life Sucks was written by Jessica Abel and Gabe Soria, with art by Warren Pleece. Jessica Abel is one of the foremost female comics creators in the industry. She and her husband teach courses on creating comics at the School of Visual Arts in New York City, and have co-written the textbook based on their classes, Drawing Words and Writing Pictures, also out this season from First Second.

Gabe Soria is a Brooklyn-based music journalist and has written Batman Adventures.

Warren Pleece is a British comics artist who has worked on numerous projects, including The Invisibles and Hellblazer.

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  • Posted February 18, 2010

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    a well put together graphic novel with detailed pictures and a deep storyline...definatly an interseting one love it and you should try it

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  • Anonymous

    Posted January 23, 2009

    Not Typical Vampires

    IT was great because it isn't the "typical" vampire thing going on. No, paleness and things like that. The vampires in the story are cool because: ones a surfer, ones a normal guy, and the other is like a awesome funny guy. And the girl when the normal one ends up falling 4 is (not normal at all) She hispanic which is a new twist in a book besides being pale. A pretty cool read.

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  • Anonymous

    Posted May 25, 2008

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    i kinda liked it to bad the ending was sad they should have a sequel to make the story less sad.

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  • Anonymous

    Posted June 11, 2008

    Fun!

    I loved this graphic novel. It was super fun. I too was sad about the ending, but it will make a sequel that much better. I'd love to find out what happens with these characters.

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