Yeah, just a typical day for her.
Peculia is a comic series written and drawn by Richard Sala. It is a spin-off of his original 12-issue series Evil Eye.
It tells of the misadventures of the title character Peculia, a barefooted waif who has a knack for getting into some rather morbid situations. Usually involving some form of monsters or murderers.
Along with the issues in Evil Eye, there is a self titled book and a original graphic novel (Pictured) Peculia and the Groon Grove Vampires.
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Main Series
- Anyone Can Die: Well save for Peculia and her short list of recurring characters. Otherwise any new characters she runs into doesn't have a high chance of surviving.
- Big Brother Is Watching: The mysterious Obscurus whose taken an interest in Peculia.
- Creepy Child: One issue had Peculia run into a young neighbor of hers who overly cheery. The girl invites her to her house where Peculia finds the remains of the girl's parents. Without even dropping her nice tone, the girl admits she was the one who killed them. On yeah did I mention this girl can wield a shotgun too and her house sits on the edge of a cliff?
- Distressed Dude: Happens every now and then.
- Drop Dead Gorgeous: Sala has a thing for nubile action girls being menaced \ slain by various pulpy dangers while in a state of undress.
- Fanservice: If there any cute girls around, they sometimes end up in, shall we say, compromising positions.
- Let's Get Dangerous!: Despite her dainty figure, Peculia can defend herself when prompted.
- Nightmare Fuel Station Attendant: Peculia herself again. She's as odd as she is innocent.
- Red Shirt: You can pretty much tell who's gonna meet a bad end in these stories.
- Trademark Favorite Food: Peculia loves her cereal. The events of a given story are usually kicked off by her going to buy some.
- Weirdness Magnet: Peculia just tries to go through the days as normal as possible, but just seems to get into these situations without even trying.
- Zombie Apocalypse: In one story, a experiment gone wrong rises zombies from a graveyard. Save the least, the experimenters quickly become snacks.
Peculia and the Goon Grove Vampires
- Big Damn Heroes: The Gypsy woman from the beginning of the story. She and George arrive just in time as the newly vamped babysitters had cornered Peculia.
- Big "NO!": Shouted by Honor when Nicola goes to feed on her.
- Big "YES!": Nicola, as she swoops in on Honor and bites her neck.
- Chekhov's Gun: The Hawthorne Tree.
- Creepy Doll: The room of Wren's charge, Frederika, is filled with them, some as if they're really looking at her. Not helped that the room is darkened. Wren naturally becomes unnerved when she loses track of Frederika in the room.
- Enemy Rising Behind: One of the sitters, Wren, is left in a nursery and seems to lose track of her charge, Frederika. Frederika appears behind her without being noticed and floats toward Wren before grabbing her, lifting Wren off her feet and feeding on her.
- Evil Costume Switch: After the sitters turn, they switch to flowing nightgowns.
- Evil Laugh: Frederika does this after biting Wren, taking some of her blood, then letting her lifeless body drop to the floor with a audible meaty thud.
- The Family That Slays Together: Nicola's family.
- Game Face: Two are showcased with the vampires. Nicola is the most benign, simply a wild glare and protruding fangs (though she gets a feral look when she hisses at George who stumbles upon her feeding on Honor). Frederika, however, starts off normal albeit creepy (Black rings around her eyes being the most notable thing). Once Wren and she are alone and she manages to bite her, her facial features turn darker, more sunken and aged.
- Kissing Under the Influence: Heavily implied with the babysitters when Peculia, George and they first come into Nicola's manor to start the job. While waiting for nightfall, Nicola bewitches them under the guise of talking about her travels. By the time she releases them, they don't know where the time went or what happened but Peculia, who wasn't affected, is more than happy to inform them.Nicola: Well my dears, it's nearly midnight. Time to tuck in the kiddos!
Honor: (Holding her head) What? Midnight?! I-I feel like I just got here.
Noelle: Yeah wow, um, what were we talking about just now? I-I forget...
Wren: Wow, me too. I must have dozed off
Peculia: Nicola was telling us about her travels. It was fascinating, hypnotic, almost. Oh, and we danced to some flute music for awhile. And there was that kissing game.
Babysitters: Huh? What?! - "Join Us" Drone:
- When George comes across the body of Wren. Frederika, the vampire that killed her, appears, mocking asking George to "join them". George instead bolts out of the building.
- The babysitters try to implore Peculia to join them after they rise as vampires.Honor: It'll be so much better if you don't resist.
Noelle: Only a brief feeling of obliteration, then you will live forever!
Wren: It feels wonderful! Join us!
Noelle: Yes! Join us!
All three: (closing in on Peculia with Noelle and Honor grabbing her) Join us! Join us!
- No-Sell: Nicola uses her powers on the sitters to bewitch them for some "fun" before feeding. Peculia oddly enough isn't affected much to Nicola's curiosity.
- Missing Reflection: When Nicola takes Honor to "watch" over her. Honor, still dazed from being enchanted, notices the mirror on the dresser next to her and sees Nicola doesn't have a reflection. By the time she does a double take, Nicola quickly feeds on her.Honor: (To Nicola) Hey that's funny, it looks like you aren't reflected in the mirror. Ohmygod, you really aren't reflected in the mirror!
- Obviously Evil: Nicola from her manner of dress and speech.
- Our Vampires Are Different: Nicola can apparently go out into sun as long as she has her sunglasses and hat on. Also a certain tree is quite deadly to vampires.
- Power Floats: The vampires here can fly without having to turn into bats.
- Sacrificial Lion: The babysitters.
- Spanner in the Works:
- Peculia herself. The sitters needed four people to do the babysitting job and randomly asked Peculia to come along as they were desperate. She unwittingly ends up being the vampires' downfall. If it had been anyone else, the sitters likely would've gone missing without anyone knowing. Granted they still get bitten, killed and turned, but their vampire forms are stopped before they spread more of the vampirism.
- Likewise George He flees the house after seeing the family feed on the babysitters. But since they never stopped him, it allowed him to get help in the form of the gypsy from earlier, who later saves Peculia from the newly vamped babysitters just as they had cornered her.
- Tagalong Kid: George, who was one of the sitter's charges. He survives the events unscathed and it's implied he was the one who found the gypsy that later saves Peculia from the vampirized babysitters.
- Transhuman Treachery: The newly vamped babysitters who Peculia runs into while fleeing from Nicola. Despite all being drained and coming back as undead beings, they claim they love the change. With Wren even stating "She's never felt more alive" right before she gets staked.
- To Serve Man: It's obvious Nicola is just stringing the babysitters along for a “job” just to feed her family. Poor Honor, Wren and Noelle all fall victim to them.
- Undead Child: Two of them. Frederika, the middle child and Argenetta, the baby.
- Vampire Bites Suck: All the babysitters who get bitten have very rough bite marks on their neck with blood practically oozing from the wounds.
- Vampire Hickey: The first victim seen on screen has two relatively clean bite marks on her breast.
