Life Sucks ~ Jessica Abel, Gabe Soria and Warren Pleece
Well, I seem to be on a bit of a graphic novel kick at the moment, so much so that I think I should probably sign up for the Graphic Novel Challenge!
Came across this one late last week, when I checked in at my local bookshop to reserve a copy of Breaking Dawn, which wasn’t getting released until Monday here in the UK and ended up with this also, well it had vampires in it as well you see… (It’s my excuse and I’m sticking to it!)
And what a great & fun purchase it turned out to be!
So what’s it about? Well it has vampires, so of course a little romance is involved. The story revolves around Dave, and his sucky 
(sic) life as a night manager of The Last Stop convenience store. His boss and Vampire master is Radu or Lord Arisztidecu as he prefers to be called, is rarely off Dave’s case. Either for his work ethic of for the fact, Dave was in his normal life a vegan, and refuses to kill to drink fresh blood. Living on plasma alone, means Dave misses out some vamp super-powers, and as such is considered a bit of a wimp by himself and the local vampire crowd, especially Surfer-Dude Wes, the night stops previous night manager and who was also created by Radu
The only bright spot each night (other that rotating the hot-dogs that is) is when the nearby juice bar shuts down and the local goth crowd call in, amongst the Goths is Rosa and her vampire-poseur boyfriend.
Dave soon falls for the gracefull and gorgeous, Rosa, and couldn’t be happier when she and the pouser split, and then he and Rosa start to become closer. Only thing is, life is never that kind to Dave, and when Rosa also starts to take a shine to Wes and a lack of understanding for Dave’s dislike of Wes. Their friendship starts to falter.
Even though, Dave knows that Wes is only interested in adding to his vampire bride collection to annoy Dave, there is little he can do to convince Rosa, and then when she starts to muse what it would be like to be a vampire and if they really exist, things start to get really complicated!
This is a light hearted and fun tale crafted by Abel and Soria and wonderfully illustrated by Pleece, that thankfully never takes itself too seriously.
I heartily recommend you grab a copy to read, you won’t disappointed.
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Buy, Life Sucks from Amazon.
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