Tomlin tells us nothing about Ferris, and while more information may be forthcoming, he comes across here as a homicidal caricature–murdering his way through time as Shawn chases him for revenge. Shit got bad.” Tomlin doesn’t even make clear that it’s time-travel-by-murder, leaving that up to the reader to figure out on their own.Ĭharacter development in A Vicious Circle #1 is likewise limited. Shawn makes a vague reference to how he was sent from the future to destroy “a machine of death and destruction” and was confronted by Ferris who was sent from another future to turn the device on. Tomlin offers no real explanation for the time travel shenanigans going on here. Unfortunately, consideration is about all we get. Shawn and Ferris are tethered (via barely explained means) such that any time one of them kills somebody, both of them get yanked to another point in time.Ī Vicious Circle #1 is built on a fascinating concept of time travel and it’s intriguing to consider how that can affect a deadly rivalry. The rest of the issue is a non-stop grudge match hop through time. It’s a few pages later when we get the closest to a direct explanation for what’s going to happen in the rest of the issue: when Tommy dies, Shawn is going to be pulled out of this time and place. ![]() Instead, Shawn finds his son and wife injured and Ferris gone. ![]() A few pages later Shawn returns from a work errand, expecting to pick up Tommy to go fishing. Ferris asks if Shawn ever worries about what might happen if Shawn killed him. And that’s when we get our first look at Ferris, chained to the wall. Shawn heads into the basement to retrieve the poles. And in Tomlin and Bermejo’s time travel story, it’s really not the strangest thing at work.Ī Vicious Circle #1 starts with an ordinary weekend morning at the Thacker’s. It sounds bizarre, but that is how A Vicious Circle #1 opens. And the only way he gets to stay with them is if he keeps a man named Ferris chained in his basement, unable to kill. And while Seph has always been on edge around this 6'2" leather-clad hunk, she's starting to realize that although their attraction may be dangerous, nothing could be as lethal as the showdown that awaits them.Shawn Thacker has a family. One of those friends, Johnny, the motorcycle-riding lead singer for the techno-metal-Goth band Lycanthropia, has a crush on her. She needs a little help from her friends-werewolf friends. Seph is a tough girl, but this time she bites off more than she can chew. Then her werewolf friend Lorrie is murdered.and the high priestess of an important coven offers Seph big money to destroy the killer, a powerful vampire named Goliath Kline. ![]() She really reaches the end of her leash, though, when her grandmother gets kicked out of the nursing home and Seph finds herself in the doghouse about some things she's written. ![]() This exciting urban fantasy debut mixes a modern-day witch with a rock’n’roll werewolf boyfriend, pitted against a powerful vampire!Ī girl's got to do what a girl's got to do.īeing a witch doesn't pay the bills, but Persephone Alcmedi gets by between reading Tarot cards, writing her syndicated newspaper column, and kenneling werewolves in the basement when the moon is full-even if witches aren't supposed to mingle with wolves.
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