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* CoolWeapon: The "Moose Stopper", a [[{{BFG}} huge]] custom revolver that fires only custom rounds and was supposedly made by Sam Colt himself. Marguritte even [[MagicalWeapon enchants it for the final battle]].
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* ImpossiblyCoolWeapon: The "Moose Stopper", a [[{{BFG}} huge]] custom revolver that fires only custom rounds and was supposedly made by Sam Colt himself. Marguritte even [[MagicalWeapon enchants it for the final battle]].
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* AngerBornOfWorry: Sheriff Morgan as Wyatt wakes up from the attack on his AchillesHeel:
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--> '''Sheriff Morgan:''' You try quittin' this job without my say-so again, I'll dock a week's pay.
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* {{BFG}}: A downplayed example in the "Moose Stopper". It's huge for a pistol, too big and heavy for most people to wield properly, which makes it a perfect match for Wyatt's strength.
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* ImprobableAimingSkills: Apparently part of Wyatt's powers, possibly as a result of enhanced senses and dexterity.
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* SuperheroPackingHeat: Wyatt doesn't have heat vision or any other ranged attack, so Sheriff Morgan gives him first an ordinary sidearm, then the [[{{BFG}} "Moose Stopper"]].
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* GreaterScopeVillain: The Chtulhu like EldritchAbomination is the driving force behind all the evil in the series.
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* EvenBadMenLoveTheirMamas: The Atterhulls are devoted to their granny.
* EvenEvilHasLovedOnes: For all their faults, the Atterhulls really do care about each other. In fact, their strong clan ties are a big part of what makes them so dangerous once conventional authority breaks down.
* EvenEvilCanBeLoved: Robert is in love with Dyan and desperate to please her, which is why he acquired the TomeOfEldritchLore for her in the first place. Even once he realizes how evil she really is, he still can't bring himself to oppose her directly. She takes shameless advantage of this.
* EvenEvilHasLovedOnes: For all their faults, the Atterhulls really do care about each other. In fact, their strong clan ties are a big part of what makes them so dangerous once conventional authority breaks down.
* EvenEvilCanBeLoved: Robert is in love with Dyan and desperate to please her, which is why he acquired the TomeOfEldritchLore for her in the first place. Even once he realizes how evil she really is, he still can't bring himself to oppose her directly. She takes shameless advantage of this.
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* HatsOffToTheDead: When Wyatt's father has apparently died (it's hard to be sure considering [[ElementalEmbodiment what he's become]]), Sheriff Morgan takes his hat off to show his respects as Wyatt mourns.
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* HatsOffToTheDead: When Wyatt's father has apparently died (it's hard to be sure considering [[ElementalEmbodiment what he's become]]), Sheriff Morgan takes his hat off to show pay his respects as Wyatt mourns.
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* HatsOffToTheDead: When Wyatt's father has apparently died (it's hard to be sure considering [[ElementalEmbodiment what he's become]]), Sheriff Morgan takes his hat off to show his respects as Wyatt mourns.
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* GoodIsNotNice: Sheriff Morgan is willing to threaten to shoot a mook to make a point, Amanda is sardonic and threatening even while rescuing people, and Marguritte is a cryptic and pragmatic witch. They're all more or less heroic and working to prevent great evil from prevailing.
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* GoodIsNotNice: Sheriff Morgan is willing to threaten to shoot a mook Fred Atterhull to make a point, Amanda is sardonic and threatening even while rescuing people, and Marguritte is a cryptic and pragmatic witch. They're all more or less heroic and working to prevent great evil from prevailing.
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* CripplingOverspecialization: Of a kind. Robert invests a ''lot'' of energy into making Wyatt very powerful, with the result that he has very few heroes compared to Dyan's monsters.
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* AchillesHeel: Wyatt is as tough as any other FlyingBrick, but he still needs to breathe. This becomes an issue when he's attacked by one of the townsfolk who's become a cloud of living smoke.
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* AchillesHeel: Wyatt is as tough as any other FlyingBrick, but he still needs to breathe. This becomes an issue when he's attacked by one of the townsfolk who's who has become a cloud of living smoke.
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* DisproportionateRetribution: The Atterhulls are a clan of ne'er-do-wells, and Sheriff Morgan has naturally sent many of them to jail. They're very much guilty of the crimes he arrests them for, and he doesn't use any undue force to do so, but they still take him doing his job as a personal affront, and attempt to ''murder'' him as soon as he's cut off from outside help and they have a bit of power.
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* NonActionBigBad: Granny Atterhull is very old, very heavy, and blind except for her SinisterSurveillance powers. She sits at home and directs her family in their feud against Sheriff Morgan while Fred acts as field leadership and Dave acts as muscle.
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* AchillesHeel: Wyatt is as tough as any other FlyingBrick, but he still needs to breathe. This becomes an issue when he's attacked by one of the townsfolk who's become a cloud of living smoke.
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* BewareTheSillyOnes: Aren't the Atterhulls funny with all their drunken, inept redneck antics? Then, the ''exact'' second they gain even a scrap of power, they start kidnapping women to rape and trying to murder anyone they have a grudge against. Fortunately, the number one person on their hit list is Sheriff Morgan, who is more than capable of defending himself. Considering that they were packing heat before they gained superpowers, it probably wasn't safe to take them lightly even then.
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* IWasQuiteALooker: Granny Atterhull, if the pictures her grandson prints up for her SinisterSurveillance powers are any indication.
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* MusclesAreMeaningless: As a farmboy, Wyatt is probably quite strong even before he gains superpowers. Even so, he's skinny and unintimidating. Then his FlyingBrick powers kick in, and he becomes by far the strongest character in the story.
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* ATruceWhileWeGawk: The Atterhulls and Sheriff Morgan are having a confrontation, with Fred and the Sheriff having words, when one of Denny Pitman's [[HumongousMecha Humongous Mechas]] attacks. Dave tries to fight it [[CurbStompBattle and is promptly sent flying]]. Fred and Sheriff Morgan pause in their argument to watch Dave fly past.
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* UnusualDysphemism: Wyatt's father probably means for it to be an UnusualEuphemism when he refers to the dirty magazines he wants Wyatt to pick up as "my mail-order brides". As Wyatt points out, his "euphemism" is actually much worse.
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* [[NotSoHarmlessVillain Not So Harmless Villains]]: When the story begins, the Atterhulls seem to be an inept and comical clan of drunks and petty criminals. Then several of their members develop super powers and Sheriff Morgan is cut off from all outside backup, and the first thing he has to do is rescue a girl they've kidnapped [[SexSlave "for later"]], after which he spends the rest of the story one step ahead of their attempts to [[DisproportionateRetribution MURDER him for all the times he arrested family members for their drunkenness and petty crime]].
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* ZombieApocalypse: Jenny starts a small one to try and reunite with Bradley.
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* GoodIsNotNice: Sheriff Morgan is willing to threaten to shoot a mook to make a point, Amanda is sardonic and threatening even while rescuing people, and Marguritte is cryptic and pragmatic witch. They're all more or less heroic and working to prevent great evil from prevailing.
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* GoodIsNotNice: Sheriff Morgan is willing to threaten to shoot a mook to make a point, Amanda is sardonic and threatening even while rescuing people, and Marguritte is a cryptic and pragmatic witch. They're all more or less heroic and working to prevent great evil from prevailing.
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* MagicPants: Averted; Dave ends up naked with his pants tied around his waist after his transformation. Afterwards he's seen with pants clearly made from multiple pairs sewn together from multiple pairs along with an ill-fitting A-shirt too small to cover his midriff, and he's constantly barefoot.
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* MagicPants: Averted; Dave ends up naked with his pants tied around his waist after his transformation. Afterwards he's seen with pants clearly made from multiple pairs sewn together from multiple pairs along with an ill-fitting A-shirt too small to cover his midriff, and he's constantly barefoot.
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* HorrorHunger: At the end of the series, Stacy gets cursed with a need to transform people into more {{Humanoid Abomination}}s or die, then sent through the barrier around the town in order to bring more victims to Dyan.
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* BigBad: Dyan is a misanthrope that hates the town and is the cause of the deformations suffered in the series. Most of the beneficial superpowers and the town being sealed off are attempts to counter her actions.
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* TheHeavy: Dyan is a misanthrope that hates the town and is the cause of the deformations suffered in the series. Most of the beneficial superpowers and the town being sealed off are attempts to counter her actions.
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* ComesGreatResponsibility: Wyatt is given the choose between using his powers to save the town and the world, or leave them to destroy themselves after their mistreatment of him. He chooses the former.
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* ComesGreatResponsibility: Wyatt is given the choose choice between using his powers to save the town and the world, or leave them to destroy themselves after their mistreatment of him. He chooses the former.
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* AllOfTheOtherReindeer: Wyatt Hinkle and Amanda Walker are both looked down on by the other townsfolk. Wyatt because they perceived him as []TallPoppySyndrome a hick trying to rise above his station and therefore the rest of them]], Amanda because she's biracial. They're both altruistic forces in the story regardless.
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* AllOfTheOtherReindeer: Wyatt Hinkle and Amanda Walker are both looked down on by the other townsfolk. Wyatt because they perceived him as []TallPoppySyndrome [[TallPoppySyndrome a hick trying to rise above his station and therefore the rest of them]], Amanda because she's biracial. They're both altruistic forces in the story regardless.
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* ComeGreatResponsibility: Wyatt is given the choose between using his powers to save the town and the world, or leave them to destroy themselves after their mistreatment of him. He chooses the former.
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* ComeGreatResponsibility: ComesGreatResponsibility: Wyatt is given the choose between using his powers to save the town and the world, or leave them to destroy themselves after their mistreatment of him. He chooses the former.
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* AllOfTheOtherReindeer: Wyatt Hinkle and Amanda Walker are both looked down on by the other townsfolk. Wyatt because they perceived him as []TallPoppySyndrome a hick trying to rise above his station and therefore the rest of them]], Amanda because she's biracial. They're both altruistic forces in the story regardless.
* ApatheticCitizens: Once the chaos happens the townsfolk all settle into their same cliques but much more unscrupulous. There isn't much screentime minding anyone reacting to the changes, everyone just sorta rolls with it.
* BalefulPolymorph: The deforming transformations are not accidental, they were deliberately inflicted by Dyan to torture the town and sow chaos.
* BalefulPolymorph: The deforming transformations are not accidental, they were deliberately inflicted by Dyan to torture the town and sow chaos.
* ClosedCircle: The borders of the town are sealed off from exit. Luane's animals die when they try.
* ComeGreatResponsibility: Wyatt is given the choose between using his powers to save the town and the world, or leave them to destroy themselves after their mistreatment of him. He chooses the former.
* CosmicHorrorStory: Downplayed; It's implicit that the awakening of the EldritchAbomination is an eventuality, but the [[FightingAShadow piece of it]] being stirred awake is before such a time, and is preventable.
* CosmicHorrorStory: Downplayed; It's implicit that the awakening of the EldritchAbomination is an eventuality, but the [[FightingAShadow piece of it]] being stirred awake is before such a time, and is preventable.
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* ExtraEyes: One of the customers in the diner ends up with eyes all over his forehead. Miss Sparks insists he's a demon, but he just wants his cup of coffee.
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* ExtraEyes: One of the customers in the diner ends up with eyes all over his forehead. Miss Sparks insists he's a demon, but he [[MustHaveCaffeine just wants his cup of coffee.coffee]].
* FlyingBrick: Wyatt is empowered with the general powerset of flight, super strength and high durability as a designated defender against the more monstrous townsfolk.
* GoodIsNotNice: Sheriff Morgan is willing to threaten to shoot a mook to make a point, Amanda is sardonic and threatening even while rescuing people, and Marguritte is cryptic and pragmatic witch. They're all more or less heroic and working to prevent great evil from prevailing.
* GreaterScopeVillain: The Chtulhu like EldritchAbomination is the driving force behind all the evil in the series.
* GreaterScopeVillain: The Chtulhu like EldritchAbomination is the driving force behind all the evil in the series.
* MagicPants: Averted; Dave ends up naked with his pants tied around his waist after his transformation. Afterwards he's seen with pants clearly made from multiple pairs sewn together from multiple pairs along with an ill-fitting A-shirt too small to cover his midriff, and he's constantly barefoot.
* MonstrousCannibalism: After transformation a lot of the townsfolk develop [[HorrorHunger appetites]] and are wont to devour each other.
* PapaWolf: Do not threaten Wyatt, his father will literally raise up the earth to devour you.
* SequelHook: Dyan sends out an enthralled Stacy into the world, cursed to afflict more people and send them back to town or she dies.
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* SinisterScythe: Amanda Walker carries one around.
* TomeOfEldritchLore: The book that gets the whole story started.
* TomeOfEldritchLore: The book that gets the whole story started.
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* SinisterScythe: Amanda Walker carries one around.
around. She uses it as her magic staff.
* SinisterSurveillance: In place of her own eyes, which are gone, Granny Atterhull now sees through the eyes on pictures of her. She has her grandson print up lots of them so they can be posted up everywhere.
* TomeOfEldritchLore: The book that gets the whole story started. It's cover is fleshy and has blinking squid eyes.
* TheHeavy: Dyan is a misanthrope that hates the town and is the cause of the deformations suffered in the series. Most of the beneficial superpowers and the town being sealed off are attempts to counter her actions.
* UngratefulTownsfolk: After saving Prom from an invasion of zombies all the witnesses pin the blame on Wyatt to the Mayor, who organizes a posse to convict him. None of them care for the protagonists to maintain order and stop evil and turn tail immediately when threats show up.
* SinisterSurveillance: In place of her own eyes, which are gone, Granny Atterhull now sees through the eyes on pictures of her. She has her grandson print up lots of them so they can be posted up everywhere.
* TomeOfEldritchLore: The book that gets the whole story started. It's cover is fleshy and has blinking squid eyes.
* TheHeavy: Dyan is a misanthrope that hates the town and is the cause of the deformations suffered in the series. Most of the beneficial superpowers and the town being sealed off are attempts to counter her actions.
* UngratefulTownsfolk: After saving Prom from an invasion of zombies all the witnesses pin the blame on Wyatt to the Mayor, who organizes a posse to convict him. None of them care for the protagonists to maintain order and stop evil and turn tail immediately when threats show up.
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* CoolOldGuy: Sheriff Morgan.
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* DidYouJustPunchOutCthulhuDidYouJustPunchOutCthulhu: The climax of the tale has something very much like Cthulhu preparing to rise from a local lake and getting punched back into its endless slumber.
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* TheFundamentalist: Miss Sparks, who runs the diner.
* {{Goth}}: Dyan.
* {{Goth}}: Dyan.
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diner, assumes almost all the transformed townsfolk are in league with Satan.
* {{Goth}}:Dyan.Dyan, pictured above. She helps start everything off by reading from an evil spellbook.
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* MassSuperempoweringEvent
* NighInvulnerability: Wyatt Hinkle and Dave Atterhull.
* OlderThanTheyLook: [[spoiler: Marguritte De Vris and Sheriff Morgan]].
* NighInvulnerability: Wyatt Hinkle and Dave Atterhull.
* OlderThanTheyLook: [[spoiler: Marguritte De Vris and Sheriff Morgan]].
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* MassSuperempoweringEvent
MassSuperempoweringEvent: It kicks off the series. Spells are recited, everyone passes out, and afterwards, half the citizenry have monstrous superpowers.
* NighInvulnerability: Wyatt Hinkle and DaveAtterhull.
Atterhull, though Dave is probably a bit less invulnerable than Wyatt.
* OlderThanTheyLook: [[spoiler: Marguritte De Vris and SheriffMorgan]].Morgan are both a few centuries old.]]
* NighInvulnerability: Wyatt Hinkle and Dave
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* PlayingAgainstType: Writer Aaron Williams is best known for more light-hearted comics like ''ComicBook/{{PS238}}'', {{Nodwick}}, and ''Webcomic/FullFrontalNerdity''.
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* PlayingAgainstType: Writer Aaron Williams is best known for more light-hearted comics like ''ComicBook/{{PS238}}'', {{Nodwick}}, ComicStrip/{{Nodwick}}, and ''Webcomic/FullFrontalNerdity''.
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* PlayingAgainstType: Writer Aaron Williams is best known for more light-hearted comics like ''ComicBook/{{PS238}}'', {{Nodwick}}, and FullFrontalNerdity.
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* PlayingAgainstType: Writer Aaron Williams is best known for more light-hearted comics like ''ComicBook/{{PS238}}'', {{Nodwick}}, and FullFrontalNerdity.''Webcomic/FullFrontalNerdity''.
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* PlayingAgainstType: Writer Aaron Williams is best known for more light-hearted comics like {{PS238}}, {{Nodwick}}, and FullFrontalNerdity.
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It starts off with a couple of high school kids in a small town getting an eldritch spellbook through Interlibrary Loan. They read it, everyone blacks out, and when they wake up, the county is cut off from the rest of the world, and half the folks have been turned into monsters. Some people use their new abilities to do evil, some to do good, and some just focus on trying to live their lives as normally as they can.
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It starts off with a couple of high school kids in a small town getting an eldritch spellbook through Interlibrary Loan. They read it, everyone blacks out, and when they wake up, the county is cut off from the rest of the world, and half the folks people have been turned into monsters. Some people use their new abilities to do evil, some to do good, and some just focus on trying to live their lives as normally as they can.
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Comic book miniseries from 2009, written by Aaron Williams and illustrated by Fiona Staples. It could best be described as "magic hillbilly superheroes fight Cthulhu."
It starts off with a couple of high school kids in a small town getting an eldritch spellbook through Interlibrary Loan. They read it, everyone blacks out, and when they wake up, the county is cut off from the rest of the world, and half the folks have been turned into monsters. Some people use their new abilities to do evil, some to do good, and some just focus on trying to live their lives as normally as they can.
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!!This series provided examples of:
* AnimalEyeSpy: Luane, a waitress at the diner, is able to see through the eyes of birds, squirrels, and cats. She can also control them to some degree, and she's prone to fainting spells whenever an animal she's possessing gets killed.
* BodyHorror: So many characters, ranging from serious villains to everyday folks in the background.
* CoolOldGuy: Sheriff Morgan.
* DeepSouth: Conover County seems to be set in a generic version of the South.
* DidYouJustPunchOutCthulhu
* ExtraEyes: One of the customers in the diner ends up with eyes all over his forehead. Miss Sparks insists he's a demon, but he just wants his cup of coffee.
* {{Flight}}: A number of characters get this power, but Wyatt Hinkle is the most prominent one.
* TheFundamentalist: Miss Sparks, who runs the diner.
* {{Goth}}: Dyan.
* HighSchoolDance: The dance turns into a bloodbath when zombies invade and the monsterized classmates start tearing them to pieces.
* HumanoidAbomination: So very many characters.
* HumongousMecha: Local junkman Denny Pittman starts building them.
* ILoveTheDead: A bit of a reversal. Jenny is in love with Bradley. She dies and gets turned into a zombie. She pursues him to the point where she corners him at a dance and makes out with him.
* LovecraftianSuperpower: Almost everyone has one.
* MassSuperempoweringEvent
* NighInvulnerability: Wyatt Hinkle and Dave Atterhull.
* OlderThanTheyLook: [[spoiler: Marguritte De Vris and Sheriff Morgan]].
* OurZombiesAreDifferent: Jenny is explicitly stated to be different from the other zombies -- she raised the rest of them from their graves, and she's far tougher and more intelligent than they are.
* PlayingAgainstType: Writer Aaron Williams is best known for more light-hearted comics like {{PS238}}, {{Nodwick}}, and FullFrontalNerdity.
* PoweredByAForsakenChild: Denny Pittman's giant robots all have severed, screaming human heads as their power sources.
* SuperStrength: Dave Atterhull
* SinisterScythe: Amanda Walker carries one around.
* TomeOfEldritchLore: The book that gets the whole story started.
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It starts off with a couple of high school kids in a small town getting an eldritch spellbook through Interlibrary Loan. They read it, everyone blacks out, and when they wake up, the county is cut off from the rest of the world, and half the folks have been turned into monsters. Some people use their new abilities to do evil, some to do good, and some just focus on trying to live their lives as normally as they can.
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!!This series provided examples of:
* AnimalEyeSpy: Luane, a waitress at the diner, is able to see through the eyes of birds, squirrels, and cats. She can also control them to some degree, and she's prone to fainting spells whenever an animal she's possessing gets killed.
* BodyHorror: So many characters, ranging from serious villains to everyday folks in the background.
* CoolOldGuy: Sheriff Morgan.
* DeepSouth: Conover County seems to be set in a generic version of the South.
* DidYouJustPunchOutCthulhu
* ExtraEyes: One of the customers in the diner ends up with eyes all over his forehead. Miss Sparks insists he's a demon, but he just wants his cup of coffee.
* {{Flight}}: A number of characters get this power, but Wyatt Hinkle is the most prominent one.
* TheFundamentalist: Miss Sparks, who runs the diner.
* {{Goth}}: Dyan.
* HighSchoolDance: The dance turns into a bloodbath when zombies invade and the monsterized classmates start tearing them to pieces.
* HumanoidAbomination: So very many characters.
* HumongousMecha: Local junkman Denny Pittman starts building them.
* ILoveTheDead: A bit of a reversal. Jenny is in love with Bradley. She dies and gets turned into a zombie. She pursues him to the point where she corners him at a dance and makes out with him.
* LovecraftianSuperpower: Almost everyone has one.
* MassSuperempoweringEvent
* NighInvulnerability: Wyatt Hinkle and Dave Atterhull.
* OlderThanTheyLook: [[spoiler: Marguritte De Vris and Sheriff Morgan]].
* OurZombiesAreDifferent: Jenny is explicitly stated to be different from the other zombies -- she raised the rest of them from their graves, and she's far tougher and more intelligent than they are.
* PlayingAgainstType: Writer Aaron Williams is best known for more light-hearted comics like {{PS238}}, {{Nodwick}}, and FullFrontalNerdity.
* PoweredByAForsakenChild: Denny Pittman's giant robots all have severed, screaming human heads as their power sources.
* SuperStrength: Dave Atterhull
* SinisterScythe: Amanda Walker carries one around.
* TomeOfEldritchLore: The book that gets the whole story started.
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