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Dave is a vampire. Instead of being incredibly beautiful and rich like the vampires of fiction, though, he's just a fairly normal guy who works the night shift at a convenience store named "The Last Stop," serving his Romanian immigrant master and trying to win the heart of Rosa, a woman who likes the idea of vampires but doesn't realize they exist. When Wes, another vampire, shows up and tries to steal Rosa away, Dave's life gets rough.

This well-written and illustrated graphic novel is a deconstruction of most common vampire clichés and tropes. ''Life Sucks'' is written by Jessica Abel and Gabe Soria and illustrated by Warren Pleece.

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!! This comic provides examples of:
* BeCarefulWhatYouWishFor: [[spoiler:Rosa gets Wes to turn her into a vampire, but then she has to follow all of his commands. After Dave gets Radu to make Wes free her, she has to get a night job and get all of her dreams about what life as a vampire would be like crushed.]]
%%* {{Deconstruction}}: A big one for most cliches associated with vampires.
%%* FunnyForeigner: Radu and his 'traditional' vampire buddies.
* IJustWantToBeSpecial: Rosa yearns to be free from her social class and wants to become a vampire because she believes it will solve all her problems. [[spoiler: Deconstructed when she does become a vampire, only to realize its not that simple.]]
* JerkAss: Wes starts out as this and keeps on going
* JerkWithAHeartOfGold: Radu is a fairly nice guy, for a greedy capitalistic vampire who has casually killed at least one human employee of his because he was hungry
* TheMasquerade: Most people don't know vampires exist, though no one makes a big deal about the normal people who do know, like Dave's roommate Carl.
* MonsterRoommate: Dave, to Carl.
* MuggleBestFriend: Carl, to Dave.
* OffWithHisHead: [[spoiler:Graphically depicted when Wes decides one of his girlfriends isn't obedient enough. It's later stated that all his girlfriends except Rosa eventually meet this fate.]]
* OurVampiresAreDifferent: Vampires here can survive solely on blood plasma but are very weak that way; they gain powers when they're pretty strong, like hypnotism and teleportation. They also live the same way humans do, mostly; they make beer out of blood and they work normal jobs, they just have to do it at night because they burn up in daylight. They can apparently also starve to death, and the vampires they make have to obey them completely.
* PunBasedTitle: Between "suck" as a term of disapproval and bloodsucking.
* VampiresAreRich: Brought up, then mocked as unrealistic.
* VampiresAreSexGods: Only if they [[CharmPerson cloud the minds of humans]]. The protagonist describes it as glorified date rape.
* VegetarianVampire: Dave only drinks plasma, not full blood; he's incredibly weak in comparison to the other vampires present.
* [[WhatMeasureIsANonHuman What Measure is a Human]]: the viewpoint of most vampires. If you gotta eat, you gotta eat. Jerome claims to try to eat only bad people, but there's no proof this is actually the case.
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