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Pecking order of monster hunters

strixvanallen

on May 19, 2017

(I wasn't feeling well this week, so have a scribble while I work in the next strip.)

In Bram & Vlad's universe, monster hunters are the only thing standing between all kinds of threats and Humanity. If people in this 'verse can go buy some icecream without worrying that they will be eaten by giant worms coming out of the ground, it's thanks to their constant work. All of the monster hunter teams are important to the world's safety, but it never stopped them to stablish an informal 'hierarchy' of how tough you are depending on their regular prey.

The Vampire Hunter Association might be the biggest of all monster hunter organizations (possibly because so many vampires also happen to be rich and influential, so just puching them will not be enough to defeat them - also, since vampires multiply by blood rather than having children, there are much more vampires than any other kind of sentient 'monster').

About "Armageddon monsters", they are big and powerful creatures like Cthulhu, that can potentially destroy the world with ease if they wake/are summoned here. Usually, teams that deal with those kind of horrors are like the Justice League, an all-star team made by the bravest and more skilled hunters of the world (when there is the opportunity to assemble one, that is). Bram's family is almost always called to be part of such teams, if only because they are so paranoid and genre-savvy that they make sure no dumb mistakes will be made when the fate of the world is at balance.

I'll let you decide if this is a compliment to them or not.