Turf

A four-issue hard boiled noir crime thriller with girls, guns, fangs and aliens. New York, 1929. The height of prohibition. The cops turn a blind eye while the mobs run the city, dealing in guns, girls and illegal liquor. But the arrival of the mysterious Dragonmir Family from Eastern Europe with more of a taste for blood then booze co-incides with a series of brutal attacks on the gangsters themselves. As the gangs fall before the fangs, only handful of mobsters survive. But an unlikely alliance formed between tough guy Eddie Falco and a character from a LONG way from New York City – a long way from Earth in fact - offers the humans a glimmer of hope. As the strong willed young reporter Susie Dale from the Gotham Herald tries to survive in the middle of the maelstrom, and an ancient prophecy unfolds, no one can guess who’s going to win the battle for this particular slice of Turf. This issue was reprinted in Mark Millar's CLiNT #1 .

The Dragonmir Vampire Clan has all but succeeded in wiping out the gangsters who run 1920s New York. Only mobster Eddie Falco stands in their way. Bloody, bruised, and on the run, he finds an unlikely ally in the form of the interplanetary smuggler known as Squeed. But can even the brother from another planet turn the crimson tide? Hard-boiled pulp action from start to finish!

The gangs of New York are either dead or in hiding. The cops are on their way to tackle the Dragonmirs, a family of blood drinking Strigoli (that’s vampire to you and me) from Romania. But the bloodsuckers have set up a little reception party for the Cops on Brooklyn Bridge, and things don’t look too good for New York's finest. Mankind's last hopes rest with former Gang Boss Eddie Falco, now telepathically linked with the Alien Squeed from Anth. Together they head to Harlem, where they must persuade The Reverend Samuel King and his men to join with them and confront the monstrous threat that the Dragonmirs are re-awakening... the first vampire, the "man-killer”... "the Old One!"

New York in February is never great, but back in 1929, it was unbearable. The weather sucked, of course, and prohibition meant it was hard to get a stiff drink in a hurry. However, the Dragonmirs, a vampire clan from Romania, really made life tough. Once they finished wiping out New York's gangs, they turned their attention to the police. Their plan: to take over the city, keep humans like livestock, and wake up the oldest vampire in existence to seal the deal. Mankind’s feeble hopes lie with a young female newspaper reporter, a weak and dying member of the Dragonmir family, and a one-eared, one-eyed former gang boss named Eddie Falco, who hopes to persuade Samuel Kane and his gang of Harlem racketeers to join them...

This is it: the final battle! The ranks of the Vampire Family have swollen and Manhattan is nearly theirs. The cops have been transformed into a willing army of bloodthirsty foot soldiers. In the garden, the trees hang heavy with living victims, unwilling sacrifices waiting to shed their lifeblood onto the ancient and evil roots that feed The Old One, The First Vampire: The Bloodfather. Former gang boss, Eddie Falco, no longer the man he once was, must lead his ragtag army of reluctant heroes up against the might of their supernatural enemies. When the chips are down, will his uneasy alliance between Samual Kane and his Uptown Racketeers, the half-human/half-vampire Dragonmir brothers, and Squeed, the alien with a powerful secret locked onboard his ship, hold fast?