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'''Wet Moon''' is a series of [[graphic novels]] by [[Ross Campbell (comics)|Ross Campbell]]. Published by [[Oni Press]]. It stars a large cast of characters, most of whom are in their late teens and early twenties, with many into [[Goth subculture|the Goth subculture]]. The story is set primarily in the swampy southern town of '''Wet Moon'''.

'''Wet Moon''' is a series of [[graphic novels]] by [[Ross Campbell (comics)|Ross Campbell]]. Published by [[Oni Press]]. It stars a large cast of characters, most of whom are in their late teens and early twenties, with many into [[Goth subculture| the Goth subculture]]. The story is set primarily in the swampy southern town of '''Wet Moon'''.


==Volumes==
==Volumes==
===Book 1: Feeble Wanderings===
===Book 1: Feeble Wanderings===
An unusually usual day-to-day story set in the town of Wet Moon, a place fraught with lousy love lives, teen angst, and shadowy rednecks. As Cleo Lovedrop heads off for college at the local art school, she's haunted by her melancholic past: a lost love, a lost child. Friends and enemies live their lives around her, as trouble and dissent brews amongst them: an unseen social assailant spreads slander about Cleo, she is forced to deal with her two brusque roommates, and discovers unsolved mysteries about the girl who lived in her room previously. Elsewhere, Trilby deals with unsettled emotional and sexual issues, and keeping her secret habits hidden from everyone. And Audrey comes to the realization that, despite all her efforts, she always causes her friends distress, while Fern, a peculiar, deformed girl who lives in an isolated mansion in the bayous, begins to notice Cleo and her friends. As the moon grows full and lunar rays shine down, lunacy and moon-calves run free. Goths, friendship, romance, sex, betrayal, gossip, cats, murder, guilt, a squirrel monkey, and all the terrible and wonderful things people do to each other.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.onipress.com/display.php?type=bk&id=115|title=Oni Press Wet Moon Vol. 1 Book Description|accessdate=2008-06-19}}</ref>
An unusually usual day-to-day story set in the town of Wet Moon, a place fraught with lousy love lives, teen angst, and shadowy rednecks. As Cleo Lovedrop heads off for college at the local art school, she's haunted by her melancholic past: a lost love, a lost child. Friends and enemies live their lives around her, as trouble and dissent brews amongst them: an unseen social assailant spreads slander about Cleo, she is forced to deal with her two brusque roommates, and discovers unsolved mysteries about the girl who lived in her room previously. Elsewhere, Trilby deals with unsettled emotional and sexual issues, and keeping her secret habits hidden from everyone. And Audrey comes to the realization that, despite all her efforts, she always causes her friends distress, while Fern, a peculiar, deformed girl who lives in an isolated mansion in the bayous, begins to notice Cleo and her friends. As the moon grows full and lunar rays shine down, lunacy and moon-calves run free. Goths, friendship, romance, sex, betrayal, gossip, cats, murder, guilt, a squirrel monkey, and all the terrible and wonderful things people do to each other.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.onipress.com/display.php?type=bk&id=115|title=Oni Press Wet Moon Vol. 1 Book Description|accessdate=2008-06-19}}</ref>



===Book 2: Unseen Feet===
===Book 2: Unseen Feet===
===Book 3: Further Realms of Fright===
===Book 3: Further Realms of Fright===

===Book 4: Drowned in Evil===
===Book 4: Drowned in Evil===

===Book 5: Where All Stars Fail to Burn===
===Book 5: Where All Stars Fail to Burn===
==Major characters==

*Cleo Lovedrop-(18)-Living and going to college at the local art school.
==Major Characters==
*Cleo Lovedrop-(18)-Living and going to college at the local art school.
*Trilby Bernarde-(18)- Cleo's best friend.
*Trilby Bernarde-(18)- Cleo's best friend.
*Audrey Richter-(19)- Kindhearted blabbermouth of the group.
*Audrey Richter-(19)- Kindhearted blabbermouth of the group.
*Mara Zuzanny-(18)- Introspective cockroach lover.
*Mara Zuzanny-(18)- Introspective cockroach lover.


==Minor Characters==
==Minor characters==
*Penny Lovedrop-(23)-Cleo Lovedrop's older sister
*Penny Lovedrop-(23)-Cleo Lovedrop's older sister
*Fern-(age unknown)-
*Fern-(age unknown)-
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*Glen Neuhoff-(20) Costume maker.
*Glen Neuhoff-(20) Costume maker.
*Slicer (26) - Audrey's roommate and beard
*Slicer (26) - Audrey's roommate and beard
*Meiko-(5)-Cleo Lovedrop's [[Cat]]
*Meiko-(5)-Cleo Lovedrop's [[Cat]]
*Marissa Lyons
*Marissa Lyons
*Connor Eakle-(23)-
*Connor Eakle-(23)-
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==Notes and references==
==Notes and references==
{{reflist}}
{{reflist}}


==External links==
==External links==

Revision as of 13:40, 30 June 2010

Wet Moon
Cover to Feeble Wanderings
DateOctober 2004 - present
PublisherOni Press
Creative team
WritersRoss Campbell
ArtistsRoss Campbell

Wet Moon is a series of graphic novels by Ross Campbell. Published by Oni Press. It stars a large cast of characters, most of whom are in their late teens and early twenties, with many into the Goth subculture. The story is set primarily in the swampy southern town of Wet Moon.

Volumes

Book 1: Feeble Wanderings

An unusually usual day-to-day story set in the town of Wet Moon, a place fraught with lousy love lives, teen angst, and shadowy rednecks. As Cleo Lovedrop heads off for college at the local art school, she's haunted by her melancholic past: a lost love, a lost child. Friends and enemies live their lives around her, as trouble and dissent brews amongst them: an unseen social assailant spreads slander about Cleo, she is forced to deal with her two brusque roommates, and discovers unsolved mysteries about the girl who lived in her room previously. Elsewhere, Trilby deals with unsettled emotional and sexual issues, and keeping her secret habits hidden from everyone. And Audrey comes to the realization that, despite all her efforts, she always causes her friends distress, while Fern, a peculiar, deformed girl who lives in an isolated mansion in the bayous, begins to notice Cleo and her friends. As the moon grows full and lunar rays shine down, lunacy and moon-calves run free. Goths, friendship, romance, sex, betrayal, gossip, cats, murder, guilt, a squirrel monkey, and all the terrible and wonderful things people do to each other.[1]

Book 2: Unseen Feet

Book 3: Further Realms of Fright

Book 4: Drowned in Evil

Book 5: Where All Stars Fail to Burn

Major characters

  • Cleo Lovedrop-(18)-Living and going to college at the local art school.
  • Trilby Bernarde-(18)- Cleo's best friend.
  • Audrey Richter-(19)- Kindhearted blabbermouth of the group.
  • Mara Zuzanny-(18)- Introspective cockroach lover.

Minor characters

  • Penny Lovedrop-(23)-Cleo Lovedrop's older sister
  • Fern-(age unknown)-
  • Natalie Ringtree-(21)- Cleo Lovedrop's roommate.
  • Myrtle Turenne-(19)- Cleo's troubled lover.
  • Martin Samson-(21)- Trilby's geeky boyfriend
  • Malady Mayapple-(20)- Always has pie!
  • Glen Neuhoff-(20) Costume maker.
  • Slicer (26) - Audrey's roommate and beard
  • Meiko-(5)-Cleo Lovedrop's Cat
  • Marissa Lyons
  • Connor Eakle-(23)-
  • Vincent Verrier-(24)- Cleo Lovedrop's ex-boyfriend and Penny Lovedrop's new boyfriend
  • Ben Viola - Mara's ex-boyfriend
  • Zia - Cleo's co-worker, Myrtle's roommate

Notes and references

  1. ^ "Oni Press Wet Moon Vol. 1 Book Description". Retrieved 2008-06-19.