Line #82 ComicBook/WetMoon


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3	''Wet Moon'' is a SliceOfLife GraphicNovel series written and drawn by Sophie Campbell and published through Creator/OniPress. It follows the lives of several young women living in the fictional southern backwater town of Wet Moon, as they deal with college, gaining employment, attending concerts and working through interpersonal problems.
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5	[[LovecraftCountry Not to mention serial killers, strange FBI agents, giant boars, urban vigilantes and ghosts of people they know.]]
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7	It's better than it probably sounds, largely due to the author writing a slow-burn plot with natural situations coupled with a Creator/{{David Lynch}}ian atmosphere. Moreover, while most of the multiracial cast belongs to the [[{{Goth}} goth]]/[[UsefulNotes/{{Punk}} punk]]/[[{{Emo}} emo]]/scenester subculture (with some characters also gay or bisexual), none of them are portrayed as stereotypically as they are in other media. This even extends to the author's particular art style, which readily acknowledges the varied body types different kinds of women inherit or grow into.
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9	Storywise, it initially centers on the daily pitfalls of Cleo Lovedrop, a local resident and college student in Wet Moon and her friends Trilby Bernarde, Mara Zuzanny and Audrey Richter. As the series progresses, Cleo enters a relationship with dorm neighbor Myrtle Turenne while the focus shifts around the cast, like the growing relationship between Trilby and her new boyfriend Martin, Mara's encounters with fellow dorm resident Natalie Ringtree, Audrey's romance and body-image problems and several other small, odd glimpses of minor characters in off-key situations. Elements of horror and paranormal mystery have begun to creep into the plot very gradually, possibly regarding Fern, a hairless, one-armed and perpetually closed-eyed heiress living in her parent's old estate near the town swamps. There's also an FBI agent with a pet monkey walking around. Not to mention an amateur crimefighter. Yeah...
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11	As of now, six paperback volumes have been released through Creator/OniPress, all of which can be bought [[http://www.onipress.com/display.php?type=se&id=15 here]] or at [[http://www.comicshoplocator.com/ your local comic book shop]]. For more information about Sophie Campbell, stop by her [[http://www.greenoblivion.com/ Web page]] or check out her Website/{{DeviantArt}} [[http://mooncalfe.deviantart.com/ account]].
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14	!!Provides examples of:
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16	* AmazinglyEmbarrassingParents: When Cleo bring Myrtle to her house her dad decides to entertain them with some of Cleo's "childhood poop stories".
17	** Martin meets Trilby's parents they are waiting outside of Trilby's apartment. They need a ride back to there house because Trilby's mom crashed the car...[[DrivesLikeCrazy again.]]
18	* AmbiguouslyJewish: Natalie, apparently.
19	* AntiClimax: Much tension comes from [[spoiler:Myrtle's]] violent behavior, culminating in her committing several attacks and an investigation from Agent David Wolfe, who believes she's a serial killer. [[spoiler:She's not, and turns herself in after stabbing Trilby. Wolfe's investigation leads nowhere.]]
20	* {{Anorgasmia}}: Mara writes in one of her blogs that she masturbates a lot, but she has never had an orgasm.
21	* AnyoneCanDie: [[spoiler: Ohpleaseohpleaseohplease let Trilby be alright...]]
22	** [[spoiler: Strongly averted: while several characters are attacked by a knife-wielding assailant, no one dies in any volume.]]
23	* ArtEvolution: Sophie Campbell's art noticeably changes in several subtle ways between volumes, which she goes into detail about on a Website/DeviantArt [[http://mooncalfe.deviantart.com/journal/13809212/ journal entry.]]
24	* ArtShift: When Trilby shows her parody "Nightdemon" comic book to Cleo, the art is more stylized than the look of the artist.
25	* AuthorAppeal: Large women, dyed hair, wide hips, full lips, strong muscles, shaved heads, piercings, tattoos, nerdettes, etc.
26	* AwesomeMcCoolname: Malady Mayapple, Zia Morlãn, Fall Swanhilde. Lampshaded by the cast when they realize the FBI agent's name is ''David Wolfe''.
27	* BewareTheNiceOnes: Trilby openly warns Martin about Cleo, going so far as to claim the present Cleo to be the "Anti-Cleo" compared to how she was in High School.
28	** Understandable, considering Cleo [[TapOnTheHead One-Hit KOs]] an annoying concert-goer twice her size in Volume 3.
29	* BiggerIsBetterInBed: Trilby claims this about her boyfriend, Martin.
30	* ButchLesbian: Beth, a girl who Audrey begins seeing.
31	* CantHoldHerLiquor:
32	** At her birthday party, Fern drinks a single can of beer, which [[VomitIndiscretionShot causes her to vomit]].
33	** At a club, Trilby has "a couple of drinks" which cause her to act drunk, become extremely sleepy, [[HoYay come onto Cleo aggressively]] and have a bad hangover and little memory of the incident the following day. Possibly played with; as she was obtaining these drinks by flirting with men at the club (she's technically under the drinking age and can't buy them herself) and wasn't exactly being cautious, the implication, as nasty as it is, could very well be that [[SlippingAMickey one of her drinks was spiked]].
34	* CarryingACake: Malady likes to carry pies around in her bookbag. We do not know why.
35	** Fall's little brother and sister once deliberately threw ''an entire cake'' at Audrey for shits and giggles.
36	* CastFullOfGay
37	* CatFight: When Kinzoku catches Beth having lunch with Audrey, what ensues is more of a Cat Brawl.
38	* CigaretteOfAnxiety: Cleo is prone to these. As she's anxious most of the time, this makes her more or less [[MustHaveNicotine a chain-smoker]].
39	* ContinuityNod:
40	** In book three, page 171-3, Brody from ComicBook/WaterBaby makes an appearance.
41	** And in book five Louisa makes an appearance as one of the members of the baseball team.
42	* ConjoinedTwins: Natalie's sisters Nissa and Nora are conjoined at the head.
43	* DeepSouth: The setting of Wet Moon.
44	* DefrostingIceQueen: Natalie, after Mara starts visiting her.
45	** Trilby occasionally walks down the street barefoot, and doesn't bother to take shoes when she and Cleo visit the beach.
46	** Subverted with Cleo, who's disgusted when she has to walk across town barefoot.
47	* DomesticAbuse:
48	** Natalie confides in Mara that she and her mother had to run away from her father.
49	** [[spoiler: Beth is physically and emotionally abusive to Audrey.]]
50	** [[spoiler: Myrtle is emotionally abusive to Cleo.]]
51	* DumbBlonde:Fall doesn't know when to [[SayingTooMuch shut her mouth]] when she's upset.
52	* EmbarrassingTattoo: Trilby gets the [[Series/StarTrekTheNextGeneration Borg]] symbol tattooed on her shoulder, despite the fact that she doesn't want people to know she's a Trekkie.
53	** Mara has a tattoo on her butt she's self-conscious about. Natalie is the first to see in when Mara does a nude photo shoot for her.
54	* EverybodySmokes: Zigzagged. Many characters smoke, but not all. Cleo [[MustHaveNicotine smokes all the time]], Mara and several other characters smoke on occasion, Trilby's an ex-smoker, and Myrtle hates smoking.
55	* FanArt: Included in the back of several of the graphic novel's volumes.
56	* FullBoarAction: One's spotted in the swamps during Volume 4.
57	* FunnyBackgroundEvent
58	* GenkiGirl: Trilby is a particularly snarky example and we love her for it.
59	* GoodScarsEvilScars: [[spoiler: Natalie gets a nasty one from the top of cheek diagonally down to her lower lip.]]
60	** A few of the girls are also cutters, including Myrtle and Zia.
61	* {{Goth}}: A rare example of the subculture being portrayed realistically, as much of the cast also dabble in {{Emo}}, {{Punk}} and Scene trends and influences, much like today's younger Goths.
62	* GroinAttack: Trilby playfully gives Martin one.
63	* {{Irony}}: Trilby's daily runs [[spoiler: lead her into the path of Myrtle, who stabs her in an attempted murder.]] However, it's likely her dedication to fitness is [[spoiler: what kept her healthy enough to survive]].
64	* HarmfulToMinors: Audrey is '''not''' pleased to find out that [[spoiler: the twenty-something Slicer is sleeping with the fifteen-year-old Fall.]]
65	* {{Jerkass}}: The guy Cleo punched out during the Bella Morte concert, for good reason. Later makes a comeback at the comic book convention, chewing out Cleo and shoving her on the ground.
66	* KudzuPlot: As the story progresses it begins to involve a possible serial killer, psychic activity, relationship struggles, and a masked vigilante. Almost ''none'' of these plotlines are resolved or explained.
67	* LeanAndMean: People assume this about Natalie. In reality, she's only evil ''sometimes''.
68	* LoveTriangle:
69	** The unconfident Audrey ends up attracting Kinzoku, a skinny Asian chick, and Beth, a muscular ButchLesbian, much to Audrey's frustration.
70	** After a while, [[spoiler: Mara starts pulling Cleo away from Myrtle.]]
71	* ModestyTowel: Natalie walks around with these twice in the series. Malady even tells her that she should wear something like it for a dress.
72	* MindScrew: A disturbing amount of unexplained scenes, like Cleo's cat being led underneath her dorm floor by another cat, half the panels Fall appears in, and [[spoiler: whatever the upside-down Fern-thing was that Cleo saw.]]
73	* NoCommunitiesWereHarmed: The town of Wet Moon itself is based on Savannah, Georgia, with many of the backgrounds containing clearly recognizable local landmarks and buildings.
74	* NotWearingTights: Unknown is Wet Moon's local crimefighter, but dresses in a ski mask and urban clothing.
75	* PairTheSpares: Egregiously used in the last volume; almost everyone in the cast ends up in a relationship with someone unexpected, from the established ([[spoiler:Cleo and Mara]]), to characters who showed no previous romantic or sexual attraction ([[spoiler: Penny and Fern]]), to characters who barely interacted the entire series ([[spoiler: Glen and Martin are shown leaving on a road trip together, even though Martin has only shown interest in female characters previously]]).
76	* {{Parody}}: A fellow art student named Mark loves to regale chicks with his drawings of demons, and even drew up a typical 90s {{Antihero}} named Nightdemon. Trilby got in on the action and drew a "[[SarcasmMode homage]]" Nightdemon comic that featured the titular demon turning his hand into a drill...''OF JUSTICE!''
77	* PosterGalleryBedroom: All the girls have them, and act as a menagerie of background {{Shout Out}}s.
78	* PsychoLesbian: [[spoiler: Myrtle is heading this way, if she's not already there.]]
79	* RedHerring: Unknown appears and seems poised to enter the plot in a big way, but never prevents any of the tragedies that strike the main cast.
80	* RiddleForTheAges: We never do find out who's hiding behind Unknown's mask.
81	* RomanticFalseLead: [[spoiler: Quite a few fans fell for the Trilby/Cleo ship after Trilby hits on Cleo while she is drunk. However, Trilby starts to fall for Martin, and Cleo begins a relationship with Myrtle and later on Mara.]]
82	* ScarsAreForever: Certain scenes allude to [[spoiler: Natalie having a harder time recovering from her attack than she lets on.]]
83	* SchoolYardBullyAllGrownUp: Cleo, believe it or not. She used to get sent to the principal's office fairly regularly in high school.
84	* SecretIdentity: Nobody knows who Wet Moon's new vigilante Unknown is.
85	* SerialKiller: [[spoiler: Myrtle Turenne has interesting late night activities.]]
86	** Subverted when she turns out not to have killed anyone. Agent Wolfe never finds the killer he was looking for.
87	* ShamelessFanserviceGirl: Trilby is seen naked, near-naked or topless often in the series, and also is VERY sexually active with Martin. She also wears a skimpy Darkstalkers costume to a comic con.
88	* ShamelessFanserviceGirl: Trilby attends a concert ''topless''.
89	* ShoutOut: More than could possibly be listed here. There's all the posters of real-life bands, movies and TV shows littering the girls' rooms, the names of various Wet Moon businesses ([[Creator/EdgarAllanPoe House of Usher]], [[Film/BigTroubleInLittleChina Lo Pan's]], [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Everyday_Is_Halloween Everyday Is Halloween]]), the time when Trilby forced Martin to watch Franchise/TheChroniclesOfRiddick films, or when Trilby and Cleo went to a convention cosplaying as Felicia and Morrigan from ''VideoGame/{{Darkstalkers}}''.
90	** The author also peppered the character portraits in Volumes 1-3 with lyrics to [[http://www.bellamorte.com/ Bella Morte]] songs.
91	* TheSlacker: Slicer, made all the worse by him shacking up with [[spoiler: the underage, white trash Fall.]]
92	* SleepsInTheNude: Trilby, sometimes.
93	* SnarkKnight: Natalie Ringtree.
94	* SpecialGuest:
95	** Cleo and her friends attend a concert by Bella Morte, a real life {{Industrial}} {{Goth}} band in Volume 3.
96	** Trilby gets to meet real-life indie comics artist [[http://www.estrigious.com/becky/ Becky Cloonan]] when she attends a local comic-con.
97	* StraightMan: Trilby's supportive and accepting boyfriend Martin.
98	* SuperHero: Unknown, who stops muggers [[spoiler: and serial killers.]]
99	* TellMeAboutMyFather: Subverted. [[spoiler: So many people have asked Trilby about her missing parents that she doesn't care about them anymore.]]
100	* {{Tomboy}}: Trilby enjoys stereotypically male activities such as sports and drinking, has sex for fun, doesn't care about the misogyny in superhero comics, is tough, direct, [[ShamelessFanserviceGirl devoid of body shame]], and has a sophomoric sense of humor.
101	* VomitIndiscretionShot
102	* WeightWoe: Cleo, despite the fact that she isn't the most overweight of the cast, but rather because of how much she whines about her weight, prompting Trilby to tease her in retaliation.
103	* WhamEpisode: Volume 5, which immediately kicks off with [[spoiler: Natalie getting her face carved open by Myrtle]], then goes on to Cleo and Myrtle's first big argument, Trilby opening up about [[spoiler: being raised as an orphan]], Cleo seeing [[spoiler: a monstrous version of Fern appear in her room]], and ends on a [[SarcasmMode happy note]] when [[spoiler: Myrtle ambushes and stabs Trilby repeatedly in the gut]].
104	* WrongSideOfTheTracks: Fall Swanhilde is noticeably more white trash than the rest of the cast, and it shows in where she lives.

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