Wet Moon

Wet Moon is a series of graphic novels by Sophie Campbell and published by Oni Press.

Primarily set in the fictional southern American college town of Wet Moon, the series stars a large cast of characters, most in their late teens and early twenties, with many into the Goth subculture and other Alternative cultures.

Early chapters of Wet Moon begin with quoted lyrics from gothic and alternative bands such as Bella Morte.

[1][2] In 2015, Sophie Campbell announced reprints of the series, with redesigned covers by artist Annie Mok.

Subsequently, a new seventh book, released in November 2018, completed the (now revised) story arc; the afterword therein dangles the possibility of a future volume with the characters being older.

Book 1 is a day-to-day story set in the town of Wet Moon, a place fraught with tension, especially involving emotional relations of the residents.

The story revolves mainly around Cleo Lovedrop and her three best friends: Trilby Bernarde, Audrey Richter, and Mara Zuzanny.

At night, Trilby is at home watching old episodes of Star Trek when Mara and Cleo surprise her at the door.

Having been invited by Natalie, the girls head out to "The House of Usher", a huge goth club set in a mansion in the middle of town.

Trilby flirts with the bartender and gets a beer, a fellow art student greets Cleo and gives her a drawing of a demon while all the time calling her "Chloe", and Mara punches her ex-boyfriend's current girlfriend in the chest.

Trilby and Cleo also lock eyes on the mysterious Fern, a small-built girl with a deformed arm and nearly blind.

When she arrives there, she quickly spots Vincent in her class and runs in the opposite direction down the stairs, only to trip and fall on top of Myrtle.