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No Heroine
Drugs, vampires, and punk rock. Kayla isn't a great person. But maybe she can stay on the straight and narrow...this time.
Clawing her way to her 90th day sober, Kayla sets out to find her missing friend - the one person she knows can keep her on the straight-and-narrow. The only problem? The gang of heroine-dealing vampires that have him... and that's just the start. From the writer of Dead End Kids comes a story of a young woman's recovery journey and one hard not everyone is cut out to be a hero.
Clawing her way to her 90th day sober, Kayla sets out to find her missing friend - the one person she knows can keep her on the straight-and-narrow. The only problem? The gang of heroine-dealing vampires that have him... and that's just the start. From the writer of Dead End Kids comes a story of a young woman's recovery journey and one hard not everyone is cut out to be a hero.
96 pages, Paperback
Published January 27, 2021
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February 14, 2021
This series had me hooked from the first issue. It concerns Kayla Strong and her road to recovery from addiction. Oh, and did I mention she lives in a world of monsters?
The monsters are honestly my favorite part. They're used in such unique ways. Take the first issue, for instance, where Kayla finds her friend Sid, a fellow addict, has turned himself into a vampire. He claims that the vampirism has solved all of his problems as he can get as high as he wants without repercussions. The story seems to suggest that vampries prey on addicts which is such a beautiful symbol. Many of the people who enable addicts are vampire-like in their own right, and addiction can make one do desperate things for what seems like a quick relief.
Then the second issue completely flips the script on werewolves. This time, Kayla stumbles on Gabby who's boyfriend has just assaulted her. When Kayla helps Gabby confront him, it turns out that he's a werewolf and he kills her. He turns back to human and claims that he didn't mean it, that it was the wolf. Again, we have another beautiful symbol, for how many abuse victims have claimed that their abusers would often flip between being sweet and monstrous?
I'll save the third issue for anyone interested in reading, but it is just as well written.
Bravo to Frank Gogol for an emotionally rich and creative take on addiction and how the disease is the monster within these people, not the people themselves.
The monsters are honestly my favorite part. They're used in such unique ways. Take the first issue, for instance, where Kayla finds her friend Sid, a fellow addict, has turned himself into a vampire. He claims that the vampirism has solved all of his problems as he can get as high as he wants without repercussions. The story seems to suggest that vampries prey on addicts which is such a beautiful symbol. Many of the people who enable addicts are vampire-like in their own right, and addiction can make one do desperate things for what seems like a quick relief.
Then the second issue completely flips the script on werewolves. This time, Kayla stumbles on Gabby who's boyfriend has just assaulted her. When Kayla helps Gabby confront him, it turns out that he's a werewolf and he kills her. He turns back to human and claims that he didn't mean it, that it was the wolf. Again, we have another beautiful symbol, for how many abuse victims have claimed that their abusers would often flip between being sweet and monstrous?
I'll save the third issue for anyone interested in reading, but it is just as well written.
Bravo to Frank Gogol for an emotionally rich and creative take on addiction and how the disease is the monster within these people, not the people themselves.
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