History ComicBook / RachelRising

** At one point point Rachel makes a snarky comment about Jet tweeting all through class during high school. Rachel earlier said that she's 28, and from everything we see Jet is about the same age. The story started publishing in 2012 and is set in the same time, (Lilith talks about how Zoe is 57 and was born in 1955) and Twitter only was founded in 2006. So even if they were using Twitter the moment it became available, Jet and Rachel would have needed to still be in high school at 22 in order to tweet during a high school class. (For anyone reading this who isn't from the US, 18 is the usual age for high school graduation.)

* AlternativeCharacterInterpretation: An InUniverse case regarding [[spoiler:Carol apparently freaking out and trying to poison the entire main cast.]] Johnny claims that the note left behind doesn't fit either [[spoiler:Carol's]] handwriting or way of thinking, and Rachel offers the possibility that Malus may have possessed her and forced her to take those actions. (Which he has certainly done before.) However, [[TheGrimReaper Angel of Death]] Ma Malai reacted to [[spoiler:Carol]] the same way she does to bad people. So either the gang is wrong, or Carol had some other skeletons in her closet we don't learn about, or Ma Malai treats people who've been controlled by Malus as though they're responsible for any evil committed while possessed, which is a pretty horrifying prospect.

* RedRightHand: Rachel has the marks on her neck but the most prominent one is really her eyes, which Johnny guesses is a result of the blood vessels in them burst while she was being strangled. Naturally, they have a tendency to freak people out. [[spoiler:We later find that anyone being raised from the dead, regardless of how they died, seems to have them.]]

* StupidEvil: Malus would be more dangerous if he could go longer than a couple of hours without committing some fresh atrocity, usually for no better reason than because [[EvilIsPetty someone or something was a minor irritation to him]]. His impatience and inability to interact with any human being without wanting to kill them tends to trip him up.
* TheyKilledKennyAgain: [[spoiler:Jet tends to die and come back to life ''a lot''.]]

* TomboyAndGirlyGirl: Jet and Rachel are this. Jet is a foul-mouthed mechanic who is often treated as OneOfTheBoys, is never seen dressing in skirts or other "girly" clothes, and has casual flings with various current and former partners. Rachel on the other hand tends to dress and act in a more feminine manner. Naturally they're best friends and have been since childhood. And hve known each other in previous lives as well.

The series would concluded with issue #42 in May of 2016, which brought the story up to 7 trade paperback volumes. At one point there was talk of adapting the series for television, but that fell through in 2013 and Moore hasn't found any other takers for the script.

In January 2016 Moore announced that the series would be concluding with issue #42 in May of 2016, which would bring the story up to 7 trade paperbacks. At one point there was talk of adapting the series for television, but that fell through in 2013 and Moore hasn't found any other takers for the script.

* LockedIntoStrangeness: After using magic on Rachel in the third volume, Lilith loses her normal appearance and instead appears a woman with long dark hair and a SkunkStripe until she undergoes a rebirth ceremony that returns her to her previous appearance.

* SkunkStripe: After using magic on Rachel in the third volume, Lilith loses her normal appearance and instead appears a woman with long dark hair and a SkunkStripe until she undergoes a rebirth ceremony that returns her to her previous appearance.

* RealityEnsues: Lillith and her witches enact a plan to poison Manson's water and frame the town official in charge of water safety. To add insult to injury, they also arrange for him to be found with some kind of porn (implied to be child porn or worse) that one of the witches crows is so depraved that people might string him up as soon as they hear about it. Except municipal buildings, even in relatively small towns, tend to have security systems, and the building's security cameras clearly document them putting him under a spell, planting the hard drive containing said porn, and then tampering with the water themselves. The detective assigned to the case gets the man cleared of suspicion almost immediately.

* TomboyAndGirlyGirl: Jet and Rachel are this. Jet is a foul-mouthed mechanic who is never seen dressing in skirts or other "girly" clothes, and has casual flings including booty calls with various current and former partners. Rachel on the other hand tends to

* MadeOfIron: One of the benefits of undeath seems to be that Rachel suffers little or no physical harm from things. (Like being knocked off a fifth story roof, which should have smashed bones and joints and generally turned her into a pretzel.)

* NothingExcitingEverHappensHere: Despite its infamous past and people having a vague, unconscious sense of there being something... ''off'' about the town of Manson, crime is nearly non-existant there. Malus claims that he is intentionally pulling a BaitTheDog, with the intent of making Manson seem like an all too perfect place before fulfilling his plan to turn it into Hell on Earth.

* RealityEnsues: Lillith and her witches enact a plan to poison Manson's water and frame the town official in charge of water safety. To add insult to injury, they also arrange for him to be found with some kind of porn (implied to be child porn or worse) that one of the witches crows is so depraved that people might string him up as soon as they hear about it. Except... the building's security cameras clearly document them putting him under a spell, planting the hard drive containing said porn, and then tampering with the water themselves. The detective assigned to the case gets the man cleared of suspicion almost immediately.

** Lilith appears to be undergoing a much larger and more destructive case of slippage that becomes evident in Volume 3, but really stretches back to before the start of the series.
** Doctor Siemen's sanity slippage, as while not as destructive as Lilith's case, is nonetheless pretty serious.

* SinisterMinister: Malus possesses the body of a Catholic priest, and poses as a benign figure for Zoe while turning her into his disciple.

* TheStinger: Perhaps the first comic book to pull a Franchise/MarvelCinematicUniverse after-credits scene in the final issue.

* TomboyAndGirlyGirl: Jet and Rachel are this.

* AlternativeCharacterInterpretation: An InUniverse case regarding [[spoiler:Carol apparently freaking out and trying to poison the entire main cast.]] Johnny claims that the note left behind doesn't fit either [[spoiler:Carol's]] handwriting or way of thinking, and Rachel offers the possibility that Malus may have possessed her and forced her to take those actions. (Which he has certainly done before.) However, [[TheGrimReaper Angel of Death]] Ma Malai reacted to [[spoiler:Carol]] the same way she does to bad people. So either the gang is wrong, or Ma Malai treats people who've been controlled by Malus as though they're responsible for any evil committed while possessed, which is a pretty horrifying prospect.

* BigBadDuumvirate: Lilith and Malus originally struck a pact to turn Manson into Hell on Earth. Malus always had a secret plan to create TheAntiChrist, which Lilith initially opposed when she found out, although Lilith later considered changing her plans to a KillAllHumans scale herself. [[spoiler:Eventually Lilith very reluctantly backs down from this and instead joins Rachel and Zoe in an EnemyMine scenario against Malus.]]

** Later we meet Malus, a FallenAngel. He's been around for awhile.

* BigBadDuumvirate: Lilith and Malus originally struck a pact to turn Manson into Hell on Earth. Malus always had a secret plan to create TheAntiChrist, which Lilith initially opposed when she found out, although Lilith later raised her plans to a KillAllHumans scale herself.

** The mysterious woman who instigates so many of the events of the comics claims to be [[spoiler:Lilith, the first woman, who Eve later replaced as Adam's lover.]]

-->'''Woman in Bathroom:''' WHOA! Honey, I want whatever you're drinking'.\\

'''Woman:''' Then you need to sue whoever did you Lasik, cause... '''''damn!'''''

* TheAntichrist: The demon Malus wants to produce one, even quipping about how he will needs far fewer generations to produce his "avatar" than God needed to produce the "avatar" we know today as Jesus.

The story begins with a young woman named Rachel clawing her way out of a shallow grave in the woods around the small town of Manson, where she lives. All the while a mysterious blonde woman dressed in a white coat watches as Rachel staggers out of the woods. A disorientated Rachel makes her way home, rests, then sets out to find the people she trusts most, (her Aunt Johnny and Jet, her best friend since childhood) to try to make sense of things, including why it's several days later than she thought, why she can't remember what happened to her that caused her to wake up in the grave, and why some people she encounters who know her refuse to believe that she's really Rachel.

* PutThemAllOutOfMyMisery: In the third volume, after going through a rebirth ceremony and being refused once again by Ma Malai, Lilith decides its time to KillAllHumans.

* RougeAnglesOfSatin: A few instances pop up here and there, almost it's pretty minimal.

* TheStinger: Perhaps the first comic book to pull a MarvelCinematicUniverse after-credits scene in the final issue.

* AbortedArc /FauxShadowing: [[spoiler: The writer with the yard full of corpses was being set up as Rachel's killer, up to and including him reacting with shock at a picture of her alive and him coming home to the little girl who saw Rachel's spirit walking around staring at him...only to disappear from the story and never be addressed again, with a last issue twist of a completely different character being her killer instead]].

** Malus claims to a woman who is "pushing 50" that Zoe is old enough to be the woman's mother. As noted above, Lilith puts Zoe at really being 57 years old. While there are [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_youngest_birth_mothers while there is a small group of recorded cases of girls 10 years old or less giving birth]], it certainly isn't the norm, nor is it what's generally meant when people say that somebody could be their mother or their father.