Necessary Monsters

"Spy-Horror Thrills By Sean Azzopardi & Daniel Merlin Goodbrey"

Necessary Monsters is a adventure webcomic that combines a MIB-style covert agency with the world of eldritch horror: the story of a team of cop-monster monster-cops.

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This work has examples of:

• All in the Eyes: Jonathon's pale unworldly eyes. Charlotte's never-seen eyes. Tuesday's all-black eyes. Knife Mother's sewn-shut eyes. The Ju-Ju man's eyes.
• An Offer You Can't Refuse: Tuesday's Shackling.
• Badass: everyone.
• Black Helicopter: Frequent mode of fransport for Chain members...although something about the chopper is a little off.
• Body Horror: all over the place. A crowning moment would be the poor mook Jonathon Gravehouse utters unholy truths to: he is so horrified he tears his own skull apart via thumbs in his own eyesockets.
• Brown Note: Jonathon tells a man on the safehouse front desk something that causes him to pull his own skull apart. Also, looking into Charlotte's eyes is instant death.
• Conspiracy Redemption: there is this flavour to the Chain.
• Cosmic Horror Story: It's almost our world, save for the massive conspiracy upheld by monsters of every kind -from slashers to Eldritch Abominations- to keep humanity in general safe, ignorant and complacent, until they use us for their needs and wants. Cattle herds have to be properly tended, you know.
• Eldritch Abomination: Thomas Harp and Jonathon Gravehouse. What a name.
• Epiphany Therapy: Tuesday's showdown with Harp.
• Let's Split Up, Gang!: in the safehouse, but hey, we're the terror in here.
• The Faceless: Charlotte. Though it's only her eyes that we never see.
• Heroic BSOD: Tuesday, upon finding her true face has stuck.
• Immune to Bullets: Cowboy 13.
• Initiation Ceremony: the shackling of Creeping Tuesday.
• Jack Attack: Jack, natch. May even possibly be that Jack.
• Lovecraftian Superpower:
  • Both Thomas Harp and Jonathon Gravehouse are shells for titanic horrors.
  • Knife Mother's Mook Maker abilities come from the thirteen stab wounds in her back. they've become cysts where embryos form, then fall off and grow rapidly from orange-sized to fully grown, clothed, sewn-shut eyes, knife-wielding identical killers.
• Made of Iron: Cowboy 13 again. Fitting considering he's a Jason Vorhees/Michael Myers-type slasher.
• Mook Maker: The Mother of Knives' specific power.
• Motive Decay: Discussed by Charlotte. She started out killing the people who killed her. Then she started killing bad people. Then, she realized everyone is bad, in their own way...
• Names to Run Away From Really Fast: Almost everyone. Jonathon Gravehouse, Charlotte Hatred, Creeping Tuesday, Harp's Bane, Jack...
• New Meat: Tuesday when she's drafted into the Chain.
• One-Winged Angel: see Lovecraftian Superpower.
• Putting the Band Back Together: Jonathon getting the crew back together is part of the opening act.
• Resignations Not Accepted: the Chain.
• Serial Killer: Cowboy 13, as mentionned above.
• Smug Snake: Jack and Gravehouse.
• Spy Fiction: Martini Flavoured.
• The Spymaster: Jack.
• These Are Things Man Was Not Meant to Know: Jonathon Gravehouse utters unholy truths to the mook on the front desk of the safehouse: he is so horrified he tears his own skull apart via thumbs in his eyesockets.
• What Have I Become?: Tuesday. She gets over it.