BeGoths Comics

In 2006, Bleeding Edge began to publish a comic series featuring some of the characters featured in the BeGoths action figure and doll series. Each issue was sold for $3.95 USD. The series was discontinued in 2007 after publication of the second issue.

## BeGoths Issue #1 - "The Hypnotic Gaze"

The first issue of the series, "BeGoths: The Hypnotic Gaze" was published on October 11th, 2006.

### Plot

The issue begins with Fiona Fatale traveling on a train to Paris. She meets a fashion designer after saving her bag from a thief and leaves the train to get a hotel near Montmartre. The next morning, she meets Dru Id at a cafe, who she learns is a transfer student from the Los Angeles going to art school in Paris.

The story cuts to show a scene taking place in Long Island, New York, where Wormwood Gloom, Ophelia Pain, Scorpio Vixen, and Devastatia are discussing poetry and films. Ophelia mentions and laments the fact that her father owns diamond mines in South Africa and that her brother Alton supports those ventures. The group then continues talking about their plans for the night and a trip coming in the future.

The scene cuts to later in the night, where the group, (along with Hypnotica Gaze and Antiqua Belladonna Remorse, minus Ophelia,) are at a concert. There, the group recieves a call that Ophelia had attempted to harm herself and was at a psych ward. The group goes over and questions Ophelia on what happened, to which she replies that she did not try to harm herself and it was just an accident, which the nurses and her parents did not believe. Devastatia goes to Ophelia's room to investigate, where she finds that the soap in her bathroom was missing. Devastatia finds the missing soap in a trash can outside the home, and is mocked by Ophelia's brother before calling everyone to her basement.

In Devastatia's basement, the group investigates the soap Devastatia found to find razor blades hidden inside the soap, and they plot what to do next.

The story then shows a short scene in Los Angeles, where Victoria Creeper, Dagger De Mort, and Morbida B. Weir are rehearsing their music.

Then, the comics switch back to Fiona's story in France, where she goes to a concert she was invited to by Dru. Dru introduces her to some of his other friends, Eva Destruction and Nurse Hypochondrianna. Joani Rotten also joins the group as Nurse goes onstage to perform some of her poetry.

The comics then go back to the psych ward, showing Ophelia's friends visiting her to see her in a straightjacket. Hypnotica hypnotizes one of the nurses to help the group break Ophelia out of the hospital, and the issue ends with the group driving to Los Angeles.

## BeGoths Issue #2 - "Ophelia, where art thou?"

The second and last issue of the series was first published on July 11th, 2007.

### Plot

The story opens in Illinois, where Victoria, Dagger, and Morbida are performing music onstage. Ophelia's group are watching them. Scorpio recognizes Morbida as her cousin, and goes backstage with her friends to meet the members of the band. The group talks for a bit, and Ophelia and Hypnotica stay behind with the band to go to a cafef while the others go to check in at the hotel they are staying at for the night.

The scene cuts back to Fiona in Eva and Nurse's apartment in Paris, where they are letting her stay. Nurse and Fiona decide to go to a fashion show being held at Dru's school. There, he introduces Nurse and Fiona to his fashion designer friends, Pandora and Penelope Fabrique. The dress they had been designing was falling apart, but Fiona was able to repair and redesign it swiftly before it was time for their model to go on stage. Pandora and Penelope offer to let Fiona use the facilities to help them design in the future because of this, to which she agrees.

The scene then shifts to the band and Ophelia's group together at a diner, where Scorpio lays out her detailed plan for their group to work to promote Victoria's band. The band agrees enthusiastically to this idea, and they leave the diner. Outside, they encounter a homeless girl to whom Hypnotica gives a dollar to. The girl reveals that she ran away from a foster home she was placed in after her parents died when she was 14. Belladonna invites her to work for the band, stating that she was "too young to live like [that] and not have some fun." The group heads back to the hotel, where the homeless girl takes a shower and is given some of Ophelia's old clothes to wear, all to the chagrin of the germophobic Devastatia.

Wormwood, Belladonna, and the homeless girl then set off to the store to print flyers for the band. However, on the way, they encounter a car driving toward them head-on in the dark, and they swerve off of a bridge into the water. Wormwood and Belladonna escape the car, but the homeless girl presumably dies in the crash, as the car exploded in the water after the two escaped. (However, it is not confirmed whether or not she lives.) When a man questions them after the crash who else was in the car, Belladonna tells him that Ophelia Pain was in the car, presumably to make it seem like she was the one who died to get her brother to stop trying to come after her. The series ends on this cliffhanger.

## BeGoths Issue #3

Issue #3 of the BeGoths Comics was set to be come out in Fall 2007, but was never released. It is unknown exactly why. However, a teaser of the third issue was featured at the end of Issue #2, and reads as follows:

"The stunning ALLUSION to Ophelia's plight, Fiona and Dru are headed for Hong Kong. And what's that creepy Alton up to anyway? Find out, next issue!"

## Gallery

Dru IdScorpioOpheliaFiona FataleWormwoodDevastatiaBelladonnaHypnoticaDagger de MortMorbidaVictoria CreeperEva DestructionJoaniNurse HypochondriannaPandoraPenelopeIssue 1 coverIssue 2 cover