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| Weregeek
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| Artist:
| Alina Pete
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| Writer:
| Alina Pete
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| Characters:
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| Updates:
| Monday, Wednesday, Friday
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| Began:
| Nov. 27th, 2006
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| Ended:
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| Art style:
| Varies
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| Rating:
| PG
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| Website
| Website
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Weregeek is a comic about a group of Gamers who struggle to balance their normal lives with their secret/semi-secret "geek" lives, running the gamut of Fandom from LARPing to video games to roleplaying games to fanfic to anime. Set primarily in the real world, some storylines are set in the imaginary worlds created by the roleplaying adventures of the characters.
Plot
The plot of this comic is still unfolding! So far, we've seen Mark meet a fellow geek, Joel, at a local gaming store, and a mysterious "hunter" pursued them. Joel ran off, giving Mark a mysterious book, and Mark has now escaped the Hunter, but finds himself facing a real live (sort of) Vampire!
Characters
Major characters
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| Mark |  | Mark is a relatively ordinary guy who is still coming to terms with his geekiness. He seems very straight-laced, but is inexplicably drawn to his newfound hobbies. He often considers new games and activities to be "too weird" at first, but invariably grows to love them. Mark is always geeking out over his latest craze, but continues to deny that he is a "geek".
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| Joel |  | Joel is a sour, sardonic guy who takes his geeking very seriously. He has a serious addiction to computer games, and often goes days on end without sleeping. However, Joel is selective about his hobbies, and scoffs at "dorky" activities like cosplay, blogging, anime, boffer LARPs, or Trek fandom. He's very hardcore about his gaming, but thinks of what he does as more acceptable and "Cool".
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| Sarah |  | Sarah is a tiny, nervous geek-girl who adores romantic fiction. She absolutely loves costuming for LARPs or cosplay, and is a huge fan of shojo manga. Although she is very quiet and introverted most of the time, she loves the drama of LARPing, and tends to play very bold and extroverted characters. Sarah usually comes off as shy, but she has a nasty temper and turns into a raging terror when angered.
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| Dustin |  | Dustin is the stereotypical "big lovable guy". Sensitive but insecure, he's fiercely loyal to his friends, and always loves having 'the gang' over to play games and generally geek out. He often mixes obscure literary quotes with sci-fi humor. Dustin is a major Star Wars/Trek geek and owns both a lightsaber AND a bathlith. He also still cries over the ending of Episode Three.
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| Abbie |  | Abbie is a total fangirl. She loves her comic books, and dreams of drawing her own one day. She's the most athletic of the group, which isn't surprising, considering that she's always running around like a ferret on Jolt Cola. A friend of Sarah's since high-school drama class, she always considered Sarah's weekly D&D game too geeky for her until she found out that she could play an elven ninja, and has been hooked ever since.
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Minor characters
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| Ned |  | Ned is the guy who runs the local gaming store, The Dragon's Lair.
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| The Hunter |  | A mysterious villain in a trenchcoat and hat.
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| Count Vandernschtien |  | A ludicrously stereotypical vampire.
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Background
More to come soon!
Links
weregeek.comicgenesis.com
