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scans_dailyWell, October has rolled around, so it looks like it might be a good time to return to American Vampire! This time we are introduced to Cash McCogan and Felicia Book, both of whom will be important in the future stories in the series...
Our tale begins in 1936, in a sleepy little desert town called Las Vegas. With the construction of Hoover Dam, the state has seen fit to loosen its rule regarding gambling and prostitution in order to give the thousands of workers on the project something to do in their downtime... much to the chargrin of the local policeforce, who have quickly found themselves swamped.
To show just how bad it is, just when Chief of Police Cash McCogan was enjoying his day off and picking up a bottle of milk, he had to stop a robbery by two drunken construction workers.
The three go to one of the fancier of the local hotels to investigate the murder, where they find the body of a Mr Howard Bealieu, the president of one of the firms hired to construct the dam. He has been completely drained of blood, leaving behind a corpse that puzzles McCogan. While the cop interviews the hotel managers and the bellhop who discovered the body, Straw and Book to quietly start debating things like "bite radius", giving you a clear idea that they know a great deal more about what's going on then they're letting on.
Cash finds that a prostitute from one of the new local brothels, run by a guy by the name of Jim Smoke, with was Bealieu just prior to his death, meaning that he's going to have to talk to a man that he REALLY wants to avoid, at least for the time being. He calls his pregnant wife, Lil, to let her know that he'll be late home and explains the situation to her. She tells him that the last time she tried to talk Smoke it ended incredibly poorly due to Cash suspecting Smoke had ordered the death of his father, the previous chief of police.
The next issue leads to an interview with Smoke and the girl over the last time she'd saw the victim, claiming that she'd left him at around six o'clock before coming back to the club for another date at 6.30. Smoke (or Skinner Sweet, as you'd probably guessed it was) creepily asks after Cash's wife and dead father in an effort to get him to snap, but the cop and agents head off as soon as they got the info they needed... at least Straw and Cash do, Felicia starts yelling about how they're going get Smoke at the first opportunity.
This, naturally annoys Cash considerably.
Back home, Cash thinks bitterly about how the rules allowing legalised gammbling and prostitution were meant to be both only temporary and a means of the town making some cash while the dam's being completed... only it's becoming increasingly clear that not they're here, the gambling and stuff won't be going away, leading to more people like Smoke coming in the future.
He ponders back to the last time he saw his father, when he told him that he was going to be a grandad. The older man congratulates him, telling him that he'll do great as a dad as he's a great cop. Cash thinks that this is a touch silly, as being able to case bad guys doesn't automatically mean that he'll be a good dad, but his father points out that a bigger part of being a policeman is believing that people can still be good despite the bad things they're capable of. That they can do what's right despite their best instincts.
Cash blows this off, thinking that it's a touch silly, but his dad says that it's true, and that he's worried that he's losing that ability to think that best of people. He's started looking at what's happened to their town since construction started on the dam, and it seems that they're getting trapped in a nightmare. Despite this, he tells Cash that it's important that he doesn't change, that no matter how bad the town gets, it's important that he still keep that faith in people, for his kid if nothing else...
Across town, Straw and Book are doing some research into what might have killed the businessman.
The next day, Cash, Straw and Book head to the dam itself, to interview a Mr Filmot, another member of the consortium of firms that banded together to put a bid on the construction of the dam. They ask him whether someone could have killed Beaulieu, but when he hears HOW the man died, he ducks into his office to make a phonecall. It turns out that he's in league some other vampires, Carpathians to be exact, who have already sent a team of vampire hitmen over to the city to kill whoever is responsible for the killings...
...Not that that does Filmot any good, as a giant humanoid bat was waiting in the room for him, killing him midconversation and escaping through a hole he'd smashed through the floor. His scream alerts the detectives, who rush into the room only to find the corpse and a tunnel the bat-vampire had dug to get into the room in the first place.
Seeing Straw and Book immediately go into vampire hunter mode upon seeing the hole proves to be the last straw for Cash, who demands to know what's going on, because its obvious that they know something they're not sharing with him...
We then cut to some distance away, where some other vampire hunters,Linden Hobbes and Abilena Book (Felicia's mum) are paying someone a business visit...
Our tale begins in 1936, in a sleepy little desert town called Las Vegas. With the construction of Hoover Dam, the state has seen fit to loosen its rule regarding gambling and prostitution in order to give the thousands of workers on the project something to do in their downtime... much to the chargrin of the local policeforce, who have quickly found themselves swamped.
To show just how bad it is, just when Chief of Police Cash McCogan was enjoying his day off and picking up a bottle of milk, he had to stop a robbery by two drunken construction workers.
The three go to one of the fancier of the local hotels to investigate the murder, where they find the body of a Mr Howard Bealieu, the president of one of the firms hired to construct the dam. He has been completely drained of blood, leaving behind a corpse that puzzles McCogan. While the cop interviews the hotel managers and the bellhop who discovered the body, Straw and Book to quietly start debating things like "bite radius", giving you a clear idea that they know a great deal more about what's going on then they're letting on.
Cash finds that a prostitute from one of the new local brothels, run by a guy by the name of Jim Smoke, with was Bealieu just prior to his death, meaning that he's going to have to talk to a man that he REALLY wants to avoid, at least for the time being. He calls his pregnant wife, Lil, to let her know that he'll be late home and explains the situation to her. She tells him that the last time she tried to talk Smoke it ended incredibly poorly due to Cash suspecting Smoke had ordered the death of his father, the previous chief of police.
The next issue leads to an interview with Smoke and the girl over the last time she'd saw the victim, claiming that she'd left him at around six o'clock before coming back to the club for another date at 6.30. Smoke (or Skinner Sweet, as you'd probably guessed it was) creepily asks after Cash's wife and dead father in an effort to get him to snap, but the cop and agents head off as soon as they got the info they needed... at least Straw and Cash do, Felicia starts yelling about how they're going get Smoke at the first opportunity.
This, naturally annoys Cash considerably.
Back home, Cash thinks bitterly about how the rules allowing legalised gammbling and prostitution were meant to be both only temporary and a means of the town making some cash while the dam's being completed... only it's becoming increasingly clear that not they're here, the gambling and stuff won't be going away, leading to more people like Smoke coming in the future.
He ponders back to the last time he saw his father, when he told him that he was going to be a grandad. The older man congratulates him, telling him that he'll do great as a dad as he's a great cop. Cash thinks that this is a touch silly, as being able to case bad guys doesn't automatically mean that he'll be a good dad, but his father points out that a bigger part of being a policeman is believing that people can still be good despite the bad things they're capable of. That they can do what's right despite their best instincts.
Cash blows this off, thinking that it's a touch silly, but his dad says that it's true, and that he's worried that he's losing that ability to think that best of people. He's started looking at what's happened to their town since construction started on the dam, and it seems that they're getting trapped in a nightmare. Despite this, he tells Cash that it's important that he doesn't change, that no matter how bad the town gets, it's important that he still keep that faith in people, for his kid if nothing else...
Across town, Straw and Book are doing some research into what might have killed the businessman.
The next day, Cash, Straw and Book head to the dam itself, to interview a Mr Filmot, another member of the consortium of firms that banded together to put a bid on the construction of the dam. They ask him whether someone could have killed Beaulieu, but when he hears HOW the man died, he ducks into his office to make a phonecall. It turns out that he's in league some other vampires, Carpathians to be exact, who have already sent a team of vampire hitmen over to the city to kill whoever is responsible for the killings...
...Not that that does Filmot any good, as a giant humanoid bat was waiting in the room for him, killing him midconversation and escaping through a hole he'd smashed through the floor. His scream alerts the detectives, who rush into the room only to find the corpse and a tunnel the bat-vampire had dug to get into the room in the first place.
Seeing Straw and Book immediately go into vampire hunter mode upon seeing the hole proves to be the last straw for Cash, who demands to know what's going on, because its obvious that they know something they're not sharing with him...
We then cut to some distance away, where some other vampire hunters,Linden Hobbes and Abilena Book (Felicia's mum) are paying someone a business visit...
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Date: 2014-10-03 07:31 am (UTC)