If
you haven't actually read the comic, you should stop now. But if
you have read the comic and
are confused as to what is actually going on, this is where you
should be. It has been pointed out to me several times, Shifters
is a bit of a convoluted story and often times hard to follow as
it has kind of jumpy and fast, missing parts, and unreadable or
unclear in others. Some vagueness was purposeful, but others was
just carelessness. In an effort to help readers understand what's
going on incase they missed some of the very VERY subtle information
and commentation, this is an issue by issue summary of what is going
on to date in the comic.
Issue
1: Awakenings
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Its halloween day and Ferrah and Alice are on the Dance commitee
to decorate for it. They arrive late and the tyranical Serena,
leader of the dance committee gives them hell. They are saved
by Ferrah's scary and tomboyish friend Nikki, who has gotten
them Halloween costumes. Kat looks great in hers, but Ferrah's
isn't as scary as she would have hoped. The dance happens and
then the girls walk home in the dark of the night. It so happens
that some vampires who have a bone to pick with Alice show up
and take Ferrah hostage. Alice is forced to reveil her shifter
nature to save Ferrah, but the vampires have other plans, as
they bite ferrah with the intention of turning her into one
of their own. However, it doesn't happen, instead, she shifts
into a giant wolf and devours her attackers before passing out.
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Issue
2: Lifting the Veil |
Ferrah wakes up a few days later, thinking it was a dream. When
she goes to school she finds Alice is avoiding her.When confronted
Alice tries to brush her off which only serves to piss her off,
making Ferrah shift. To preserve the veil, Alice boots Ferrah
into the bathroom, trying to cover up what was really happening.
She goes into the bathroom to see how ferrah is and ends up
getting throttled. Outside a crowd gathers when they hear of
a fight in the girls washroom. Eventually the two get back to
class after Alice shocks Ferrah back into reality. When Ferrah
is caught daydreaming she gets kicked out of class and meets
up with Ben who tries to console her. It rather backfires and
she ends up going home more confused than ever.
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Issue
3: Tears of Blood |
In this issue the focus shifts from Ferrah and Alice to the
activities of their friend Nikki on the night when ferrah was
bitten. Nikki is a slayer of slayers and gets called to the
Club Estranger, a vampire club, to deal with one called "
The Padre", who is out of control attacking innocent vampires
at the club. Her mysterious partner, Schala, is already at the
scene and gives her details as she finds an entry point and
finds the best place to attack her target. Soon a melee insues
where she engages the religion spewing nutcase and kicks his
ass. Tied up they try to decide what to do with him until he
decides to open his mouth and beg for mercy. Nikki decides to
put him out of his misery for good, which shocks even her partner.
Nikki gets a drink afterwards so she might be able to sleep
tonight.
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Issue
4: On the Lam |
Ferrah is still trying to make sense of whats going on and decides
to take the Tram home. But she does not know that someone has
hired Vampsquad PI to look into the disappearances of the two
vampires that she ate on the night of her strange awakening.
Piotr and Vince decide to track Ferrah down as a means of catching
up with the werecat that was supposed to have been involved
in the fight between these vampires. Vince and Piotr track her
down to the tram and confront her there, while Ben and Alice
also are looking for Ferrah, worried she might be getting into
trouble. On the tram, the two vampires manage to aggrivate Ferrah
enough to make her shift, upon which Ferrah proceeds to whoop
ass on the two, and then escape onto the top of the car. A running
battle ensues where the Vampsquad endure some abuse and Ferrah
gets spraypainted. At the end of the line the Vampish duo tazer
Ferrah and knock her out. Fortunately Alice and Ben arrive on
the scene and deal with the duo by tossing them off the train.
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Issue
5: Shades of Intrigue |
When Ferrah awakes again, she finds she isn't alone in her
bedroom. Alice and Ben decide to give her the lowdown on what
she is and the Veil. The method? Puppetshow. After the puppetshow,
they are at Ben's football practice, where Alice is still
trying to educate Ferrah further, but Ferrah's interests are
distracted by her infatuation with Ben. Meanwhile, under cover
of Serena's babbling, Nikki recieves word that she is suspended
from working for two weeks due to the coming of the Maverick
to Shade City. She is understandably upset. After they are
done in the locker room, Ferrah and Alice go to class only
to discover their teacher has been replaced by.. Piotr! Although
Alice tries to do something about it, her plan is foiled.
Afterwards, Ferrah and Alice are walking in the school courtyard
discussing their new teacher when Alice gets a call on her
Cell phone from Raven. She tells Ferrah to wait as she takes
the call. While Ferrah is waiting she is attacked by a White
wolf that bursts through the wall and assaults her, ripping
her shirt and giving her a hickey. She responds by booting
said wolf in the nuts and becoming infuriated. She tracks
down the wolf to the cafeteria where she meets the Wuulfpack
for the first time. When Lupus tries to say hi, she flattens
him with a table.
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Issue
6: Catfight |
Holly, the werefox of the Wuulfpack confronts Ferrah, where
she indicates she is Lupus' girlfriend by showing her the
hickey Lupus gave her. Ferrah responds by showing her her
newly gotten mark and the werefox challenges Ferrah to a duel
in the undercity. Alice and Ben scramble to try and minimize
damage. Alice opts to talk to Ferrah while Ben deals with
Lupus and Kobrin. Ben threatens Lupus with little effect,
and Alice talks to ferrah in the washroom where Ferrah is
taping her wrists getting ready to fight. Kat pleads with
Ferrah not to fight, offering to take her place. Ferrah won't
hear anything about it and infact pisses off Alice to the
point where she storms off in a huff. Later that night, the
two meet in the abandoned area in the undercity. The wuulfpack
backs holly while Ben is the only backup Ferrah has. Ben tells
ferrah that he is there to make sure things don't get out
of hand, as he is more aware that Ferrah is of the potential
disaster in the making. Holly shapeshifts and challenges Ferrah,
who also tries to shapeshift and fails miserably. Holly doesn't
waste the opportunity. Ferrah makes it clear she intends to
win, wolf form or not and a running battle ensues. Holly seems
to have the upper hand until Ferrah gets her with a fire extinguisher
and pins her down. However, the vixen isn't about to be outdone
and with a shard of glass deeply slashes Ferrah across the
chest.
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Issue
7: Out of Control |
Kat, feeling bad about not helping her friend despite the afternoon
has come in search of her. She shifts into her cat form to cover
more ground. Meanwhile Holly believes Ferrah to be toast, but
is proven seriously wrong when Ferrah freaks out and shifts,
not only to her half form, but her full beast form which is
gigantic, unlike any they have ever seen, and it comes right
after the werefox that damaged it. The Wuulfpack try to help
their own but are sorrily ineffective, which leaves Ben to give
a demonstration of his Shamanic talents. Using spider spirits
to bind Ferrah, the coyote twins manage to pull Holly to safety.
Unfortunately the binding doesn't hold and Ferrah breaks free,
even more pissed off. Realizing his spell is broken, Ben tries
a more old fashioned approch, using his bear strength to try
and wrestle down the giant werewolf. He gets his arm crushed
for his troubles as Kat bursts through the window in her cat
form, landing on the wolf and splitching its eyes. Ferrah pitches
Kat off, throwing her into the wall. Kat finds herself staring
down the snout of the pissed shewolf, and is made into a chewtoy.
Ben, realizing he has no other choice once again takes up his
shamanic fetish and casts a spell which causes both girls to
transform back to their humanselves. Both girls are left bloodied
on the floor while ben tells the cowering wuulfpack to call
the medics.
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Issue
8: Damage Control |
Once again ferrah finds herself awakening in her own bed. Ben
is present when she awakens and escorts her to school. She doesn't
remember anything about her transforming and asks her friends
and even the teacher about where Alice is. In the cafeteria
at lunch, Ferrah confronts Ben about it who can only tell her
that he is taking her somewhere afterschool. They go to the
veil hospital where we discover the fate of Vince and Piotr
since their ill-fated fall from the train in issue 4. They spot
ben and ferrah as they quarrel in the hallway of the hospital.
Ferrah realizes that she probably did something, but still isn't
really prepared when she learns it was, in fact, Alice that
she harmed. Inside Alice's room, Ben's Father Edward harkus
and Alice's parents argue about what should be done about Ferrah.
The Sherry's ( alices parents) freak out somewhat when they
learn that Ferrah has been brought here to see her friend. She
tries to appologize but just can't get the words out, so she
simply is aloud to see kat, whom she can do nothing for as the
werecat lay in a coma. Out of earshot, Ben and his father talk
about ferrah's fate. Edward tells Ben that the situation could
be far worse that people may have previously thought. He suspects
that Ferrah is a Kinsmir, a half shifter, half vampire.
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Issue
9: Wolf's Clothing |
Edward explains to his son the significance
of the Kinsmir and the threat it represents. He is in favor
of sending her away for training so that when her power awakens
she can control it. Ben isn't happy with the idea at all. Ferrah
however is agreeable too it , she feels she has an obligation
to atone for her attack against her bestfriend. But it appears
someone has been evesdropping as Vampsquad PI burst in and confront
them about trying to smuggle a kinsmir out of the city. Edward
makes quick work of the vamp duo and sends Ferrah and Ben to
get ready to leave. When finally Vince and Piotr get out of
the closet, Vince calls in a Slayer. That slayer happens to
be Nikki, who is bored out of her skull because technically
she's off duty. After a brief skirmish with her roommate and
partner, Schala, she accepts the job and heads out to the airport.
While on route to the airport Ben volunteers to go with Ferrah
to the training facility in the arctic where she is supposedly
going. At the airport, Nikki has already arrived and is setting
up her big gun to take care of business. When she finally spots
her quarry in her scope, she is taken aback as she recognizes
the face. Her concentration is interrupted by a shadowy figure,
the mysterious Raven. A skirmish ensues which delays nikki enough
that her quarry managed to get on the plane and take off. On
board the plane, the two take off. But another shadow shows
itself on the back of the plane. When the two realize what it
is, it is already too late as the Maverick begins to destroy
the plane. As the plane begins to crash, the buildings put up
a safety web to catch it and ferrah and ben escape to the outside
of the plane. The Maverick follows and destroys key cables causing
the plane to tilt and Ferrah to fall to the city below as Ben
watches, horrified.
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Issue
10: Strange Dreams |
Back at the Hospital, Kat's condition is deteriorating as she
slips deeper and deeper into her coma. Her body is being destroyed
by the vampiric virus she contracted when Ferrah bled on her.
She dreams while she is in her coma, and meets with her spirit
guide who takes her on a bizarre little tour of her head and
memories. We see her childhood, when she first became a shifter,
and her first meeting with ferrah before she comes across a
strange little cottage which has nothing to do with her life.
She meets a strange pregnant woman with a strange symbol on
her forehead named " Jee". They converse briefly before
Kat begins to bleed from her abdomen in the dream, experiencing
extreme pain as her body lies dying. In the hospital doctors
scramble to save her life, while in her dream Jee offers her
a choice to either die or take of the apple she offers. Kat
accepts the apple and immediately her body in the real world
regenerates with supernatural speed, but her dream begins to
fall apart as she comes out of the coma. Jee begins to transform,
telling Kat that she must go because her sister is coming. Kat
is blasted back to conciousness on the operating table where
the doctors look on, flabberghasted.
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Issue
11: Blood Bonds |
Kat is awake and recieves a visit from her doctors who try to
bring her up to speed on what happened to her. Lucas tells her
about the LTV virus and how it relates to vampires, as well
as the kinsmir and what it did to her. After horrifing the werekat,
Alice has a visit from Ben. Ben brings her up to speed on what
has happened since she was out and tells her that Ferrah is
missing. Alice then recieves another visitor, Raven, who proceeds
to aggrivate Ben to the point of attacking him and pinning him
to the wall. Alice gets him to release him and Ben leaves in
a huff. Raven then proceeds to tell Alice of his view of events,
from his tangle with Nikki to the point where he sees Ferrah
hit the pavement, and keep on going. He tells her that Ferrah
is in vamp territory now and to leave things to him. It is still
too dangerous if the Maverick is still around. Outside the hospital
room, Ben is confronted by stranger with a strange pet, who
seems to be looking at " Nothing at all."
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Issue
12: The Other Team |
Ferrah falls the the undercity below and makes a large crater
which attracts the attention of a younglie vampire by the
name of Kaylie. It Kaylie takes care of Ferrah's mangled body
in a rather unique way before the " Pride of the undercity"
shows up to make trouble. Kaylie demonstrates that not all
vampires are pussies and hands them their asses without even
really trying. Afterwords she discovers Ferrah is sans memory
and so she takes Ferrah back to her place where she introduces
her to "Type O" and a corset. After properly attiring
her for a vampire style hunt, they go the club Estranger to
pick up a bite to eat. Unknown to either, Nikki has also come
to the Estranger to drown her sorrows of botching the job
earlier. When Ferrah shows, it suddenly Clicks that the girl
she was supposed to assasinate was her best friend Ferrah
and bolts to go and talk to her. Ferrah and Kaylie manage
to pick up a couple of guys and leave the estranger, with
Nikki in hot pursuit. On their way to the boy's place it is
reveiled to the girls that their meals are looking for a little
more than company and mean to get it. Kaylie reveils her vampire
nature, killing her meal and turning on Ferrah's, who takes
Ferrah hostage. That doesn't hold to long as Ferrah bites
him deeply in the arm, giving Kaylie a chance to munch him.
Nikki meanwhile has lined up for a shot on Ferrah but is torn.
She never misses when she actually wants to shoot something,
but she doesn't want to kill her friend. Deciding against
it she shoots Kaylie and the would be assailent through the
head. Ferrah is left with the taste of the boy's blood in
her mouth which jumps starts her memory. Nikki tries to be
understanding of her friend, but Ferrah isn't really listening.
Instead, Nikki is confronted with the full fury of the Kinsmir.
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Issue
13: Get Ferrah |
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Issue
14: The Price of Power |
Nothing
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Issue
15: DogFight |
Nothing
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