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Artists bios
Robert Finch is a prose and script writer
from New Jersey U.S.A. Since the age of
three Robert has cultivated a love of reading and a mastery of literature, as
well as an appreciation of visual arts such as fine art and movies. Upon discovering comics in his late teens,
Robert realized that it truly is possible to wed the two worlds of text and
picture to tell engaging stories, and has been engrossed in the creation of
such ever since. He has recently had
two prose short stories accepted and published by Inwood Indiana and Avalon
Press and is hoping to make headway into the world of comics as well with his
first publication to date after years of experimenting with various partners.
Gregory Floch is has been a comic fan since
he discovered Conan the Barbarian in his native France. Having spent three years as an art student of
Ecole Emile Cohl in Lyon France he has been drawing comics ever since. Gregory's passion for the bizarre and
exaggerated fuels his abstract art influenced works. He strives to develop a comic form which
combines both American comic and fine art aesthetics building on the influences
of Pablo Picasso, Simon Bisley, and Mike Mignola among others to guide his
artistic license. He will published by
French publisher YIL Editions by the end of the year, his first publishing
credit, and is looking to add many more credits to his resume.
Chapters breakdown
Blood Searches chapter breakdown
Blood Searches is the story of a young
doctor, Thomas Levine, and his experiences raising two teenage age vampires in
a world where vampirism is viewed as a communicable disease on the level of
AIDS.
Chapter 1- Thomas wakes up with memories of
the previous night where he was helpless before two female vampires who drank
his blood, but did not transfer vampirism to him. Taking a shot gun with him he searches for
his attackers with the intent, perhaps not to kill, but to gain some measure of
revenge on creatures he believes to be on level with monsters from
scripture. Through some means unknown to
him deriving from his vampire bite he is able to trace his attackers. But they are two, starving teenage
girls. After driving them to the
hospital he finds himself unable to let them simply be processed into the
system given that their parents had disowned them due to their condition. The chapter ends with Thomas accepting the
two girls, Carina and Belle, into his home.
Chapter 2- Thomas is on his way home from
working at the hospital when he is ambushed by a vampire who breaks through his
windshield and holds him hostage until being dropped up at a local pizza
shack. Overloaded with how close he was
to death Thomas is barely able to drive home before crashing into his
garage. He wakes in the very hospital he
worked in, scaring a nearby nurse with his surprise. However his professionalism sets in and he is
able to calm the nurse down. He finds
himself injured but not dangerously so.
His adopted daughters separated by his sorta girlfriend are brought to
see him, and Carina the oldest vows to repay Thomas's generosity and to see fit
that he would never have to suffer thusly again. The doctor managing him (And with whom is familiar),
shares his knowledge of vampires with him, most importantly that he is a
“Stone” a person bitten by a vampire who has not contracted Stoker's Dilemma
(What vampirism is called medically).
The doctor also lends Thomas a book on the first recorded interview with
a vampire which explains much about vampirism and its history, though much of
the books content are not shared with the reader yet.
Chapter 3- Thomas is back on his feet and
going to work again. He wakes up and
takes his daughters to school before heading to work himself. His car breaksdown even after being
maintained from the last wreck and a fellow doctor offers to take him home
after his own shift since they end around the same time, which Thomas accepts. Throughout the day Thomas deals with mostly
elderly patients with various stages of dementia and stubbornest (Being a
cardiologist this is because mostly the elderly have heart issues). There is one elderly woman that he gets a
weird vibe around however, accompanyed by her daughter, who upon glancing at
Thomas goes mute and much of her symptoms are communicated to him by the
daughter. When Thomas asks her what is
wrong she says that “I smell the scent of blood on you.” Accessing her records later Thomas learns
that this elderly woman is indeed diagnosed with a mild form of Stokers. Before the woman leaves Thomas rushes to meet
with her and expresses an unprofessional interest in learning about Stoker's
due to his adopted daughters. The woman
gives him her number. That night Thomas reads
another section of “Interview with a Vampire” regarding dhampirs, “half”
vampires who still have many of the traits of a full vampire but without many
of the negative and positive attributes.
These attributes, which Thomas is implied to have, are increased
strength and longlivity, a sense of where other vampires are or if a person
nearby is a vampire called “The blood scent”.
This attribute is discussed in detail
Chapter 4- Thomas arrives home from work
and fines Carina unwilling to talk with him and in tears. He approaches Belle and she tells Thomas what
happened that day from her point of view, outlining her own experiences. She arrives at the school by being dropped off
by Thomas and as usual finds that there are rumors going about concerning Belle
and Carina (Though in particularly Carina) being “Vampire Sluts” and that their
vampirism had come from some guy Carina had had a relationship with leading to
Carina “infecting” Belle. Although Belle
had been able to retain most of her friends, many of the girls Carina hung out
with have abandoned her and even developed feuds with her, spreading hurtful
rumours and even being aggresssive to her in the hallways. One girl today had said to another girl in
her range of hearing “She looks like a girl alright, but what happens when I
make her bleed?” Thomas than approaches
Carina about the day only to find that she had mostly come to terms with it and
achnowledges all that Belle had said.
However she adds that there's a boy she likes that she had meant since
this situation had started and who she's nervous won't ever like her now that
she's a vampire. Thomas has nothing to
stay directly, save to say that “If you show him you're human he's bound to
relate, I promise. The chapter closes
with a page on the history of Vampire and Human relations.
Chapter 5
Thomas, his girlfriend Hope and Carina and
Belle all go to the park to eat a picknic lunch. One of the boys playing however spot Hope's
fangs and tells his parents. The father approaches
Thomas to tell him to “Get the hell out, there's children here.” Thomas declines saying that everyone has a
right to the park. Thomas is surprised
to be notified of an article written about his situation in the form of a
gossip collomn. Given that Thomas has
been named “Top Doc” the previous year the reporter reflects upon his career in
contrast with adopting “Whore children.”
Although sensitive to Thomas's plight believing him to simply be
“misguided” she warns of the health risk of a notable doctor being at risk of
contracting Stokers. Some patients
cancel their appointments and Thomas gets worried. Having a bright idea, he approaches the same
paper to write a response piece on his experiences raising his two vampire
adopted children. That evening his house
is broken into with his daughters having been kidnapped.
Chapter 6-
Working with the police Thomas is able to remember key details to the
police to identify the men as belonging to the moonlight gang, an organization
flourishing in a local crime ridden slum. Due to the relatively high death and injury
rate from vampire to human “conversions” the criminals had read the article
about Thomas and his daughters and decided since Thomas hadn't become an
infected that the girls's blood is “Pure” and thus would be perfect for the
gang members themselves becoming converted due to the increased and durability
of a successful conversion. Thomas and
the police come closer to the Moonlight gang's hide out as Carina and Belle
wake up. After being forced to throw-up
and thus becoming hungry enough to enter a blood lust all of the gang members
present volunteer themselves to be bitten.
When the police storm the area however the gang members are found to
have developed negative symptoms of Stoker's with one member in particular
expressing much resistances to bullets though he himself is quickly gunned
down. Belle and Carina are found alive
but barely concious, feeling ill from drinking blood that in many cases was
laced with drugs. The chapter closes
with Thomas reading a passage of “Interview with a Vampire” concerning vampires
being taken advantage of in war environments.
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