Wet Moon
| Wet Moon | |
|---|---|
 Cover to Wet Moon 1: Feeble Wanderings | |
| Date | October 2004 - present |
| No. of issues | 5 |
| Publisher | Oni Press |
| Creative team | |
| Writers | Ross Campbell |
| Artists | Ross Campbell |
Wet Moon is a series of graphic novels by Ross Campbell, and published by Oni Press. The publisher has given the series a content rating of "O" for "Older Audiences." Primarily set in the fictional southern college town of Wet Moon, the series stars a large cast of characters, most of whom are in their late teens and early twenties, with many into the Goth subculture and other Alternative cultures. Wet Moon features many quoted lyrics from gothic and alternative bands such as Bella Morte at the start of a new chapter.
Ross says he has the story plotted through book 8 [1], with book 6 to be released in October 2012.[2]
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.[3]
Book 2: Unseen Feet
Book 3: Further Realms of Fright
Book 4: Drowned in Evil
Book 5: Where All Stars Fail to Burn
Characters
Major Characters
- Cleo Lovedrop-(18)-Living and going to college at the local art school
- Trilby Bernarde-(18)- Cleo's best friend who secretly loves Star Trek
- Audrey Richter-(19)- Kindhearted blabbermouth of the group
- Mara Zuzanny-(18)- Introspective cockroach lover
Supporting Characters
- Penny Lovedrop-(23)-Cleo Lovedrop's older sister
- Fern- (21)- Penny's boss, a deformed girl from money who lives on an old plantation
- 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.
- Meiko-(5) Cleo Lovedrop's Cat
- Vincent Verrier-(24)- Cleo Lovedrop's ex-boyfriend and Penny Lovedrop's new boyfriend
- Zia Morlon - Cleo's co-worker, Myrtle's roommate
Minor Characters
- Kinzoku- - Audrey's love interest, has a 90s nose chain
- Beth McKenzie- - Audrey's violent love interest
- Ben Viola - Mara's ex-boyfriend
- Marissa Lyons- Ben's new girlfriend
- Connor Eakle-(23)- Draws girls stupid comics to hit on them and is very serious about it all
- Slicer (26) - Audrey's roommate and beard
- Fall Swanhilde- (15)- Slicer's underage hillbilly love interest
Notes and references
- ^ Alex Deuben (19-Nov-2008). "CAMPBELL ON "WET MOON" & "WATER BABY"". Comic Book Resources.
{{cite web}}: Check date values in:|date=(help) - ^ Ross Campbell (16-Oct-2011). "Post NYCC". deviantArt.
{{cite web}}: Check date values in:|date=(help) - ^ "Oni Press Wet Moon Vol. 1 Book Description". Retrieved 2008-06-19.
External links
- Wet Moon at the Comic Book DB (archived from the original)
- ONI Press page
- Ross's personal website
- Ross's deviantART account (username mooncalfe)
- Elfwood account (username rocambe)