Comic Issue Synopsis

Adapted from the novel by New York Times Best-Selling author Laurell K. Hamilton, ANITA BLAKE: VAMPIRE HUNTER in GUILTY PLEASURES takes readers on a dark adventure through the underworld of an alternate reality where vampires, werewolves, and other supernatural creatures are legal citizens of the United States.

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Issue #3&4 The Story: Anita Blake has faced great horrors in her career as a vampire hunter and an animator of the undead, but being left in a dungeon with an army of were-rats is hardly her idea of a good time. Fortunately, she is able to escape when her vampire hosts intercede, but her good luck seems short-lived when she is brought before Nikolaos, the master vampire of St. Louis. What Nikolaos wants is unclear, but one thing is certain - even an experienced vampire hunter like Anita cannot stand against a being as powerful as this! But can she survive the night?

Issue #5 The Story: Anita Blake has become deeply involved in a murder mystery that threatens to shake the foundations of the vampire underworld of St. Louis, and she's not about to let the roadblocks she's encountered thus far stop her from solving the case. But she won't be able to do it alone - she's going to need the help of Phillip, a vampire junkie who can help her gain access to people and places she'd never be able to enter on her own. including a special vampire party where hunters like herself are definitely not welcome.

Issue #6 The Story: Anita Blake has a major dilemma – she’s known professionally as a vampire hunter, but she has been recruited to help track down a serial killer who has been preying upon the vampire population of St. Louis. To break the case, she’ll need the help of Phillip, a junkie who is addicted to being preyed upon by vampires, and she’ll have to attend a freak party, where vampires and humans come together for a strange evening of pleasure and pain…

Guilty Pleasures is back! After a short hiatus, the hit adaptation of Laurell K. Hamilton’s Anita Blake series continues!
Issue #7 The Story: What price will Anita pay in order to save her friend’s life and solve the Vampire Murders? Will she actually kiss Phillip? How far will Edward go in order to find out where the daytime resting place of the Master Vampires truly is? Where is Jean-Claude? And most importantly, who is behind the Vampire Murders?

Issue #8 The Story: Anita and Phillip recover from the Freak Party only to come face-to-face with Master Vampire Nikolaos. What will she think of the Executioner’s newest findings in the Vampire Murders? Will the information Anita has save her life or endanger it? Meanwhile, the vampire murderer strikes again! Who is the latest victim of this mysterious killer?

Issue #9 The Story: Laurell K. Hamilton’s deadly vampire hunter continues on the trail of a brutal and mysterious killer, a trail which leads her through all parts of the Vampire society. This time, Anita goes in for a personal meeting with the Church of Eternal Life, the vampire religion which promises to make you live forever and actually delivers. But will the head of the church tolerate Anita’s accusations?
Issue #10 The Story: Things keep getting worse for Laurell K. Hamilton’s deadly vampire hunter as one of her allies in the hunt for the vampire killer is murdered! But vampire bites, ominous dreams, and persistent sociopaths won’t slow Anita down as she takes matters into her own hands and learns the truth about the mystery that’s been plaguing her: the identity of the perpetrator of the brutal and unlicensed slayings of “innocent” vampire citizens! Of course, having that knowledge doesn’t mean she’ll live long enough to share it!

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