Life Sucks

Life Sucks

A timeless goth love triangle/coming-of-age story from a trio of acclaimed comics creators.

“I’m psyched. I’m totally psyched. I’m not a loser… Who the hell am I kidding?”

Life sucks for Dave Miller — he’s broke, girlfriendless, and stuck in a dead-end job. Really dead-end: Dave is the night manager at the Last Stop, LA’s finest vampire-owned and operated, all-night convenience store. Facing an eternity of turning hot dogs and restocking blood broth for his crappy boss and Vampire Master, the future looks about as appealing as the sunrise.

It’s bad enough that Dave is clinging to his days as a vegetarian and refusing to feed off humans, leaving him weak as a kitten. But when he finds himself competing with psychotic surfer-vamp Wes for the affections of Rosa, a beautiful mortal flirting with the dark side, unlife gets about as sucky as it possibly can.

Originally published in 2008, Fantagraphics is proud to bring this YA classic back into print with a new edition. Veteran comics creators Jessica Abel (Trish Trash: Rollergirl of Mars), Gabe Soria (Batman ’66), and Warren Pleece (Incognegro) have crafted a timeless goth love triangle/coming-of-age story that garnered awards and accolades when initially published, including the 2009 YALSA Top Ten Graphic Novels for Teens list.

Biographical Notes:

Jessica Abel is an American comic book writer and artist, known as the creator of such works as Life Sucks, Drawing Words & Writing Pictures, Soundtrack, La Perdida, Mirror, Window, Radio: An Illustrated Guide, and the omnibus series Artbabe.

Title Notes: 

For fans of What We Do in the Shadows, Buffy the Vampire Slayer, and My Babysitter’s a Vampire. Great humor and pathos can be mined from supernatural beings interacting with the quotidian.

Teens, especially, are obsessed with vampires (and vampire love triangles).