What is a Vampire Guardian Angel?

Q. Why is there a "Guardian Angel" in the Comic Series title? These aren't "Guardian Angels", are they?
A. Vampire Guardian Angels are Guardian Angels who have been bitten by Vampires, and so they have turned into Vampires, but they are still functioning as Guardian Angels in that they still respond to prayers -- but this time prayers are a "homing device" towards their food: "praying humans".

So yes they are Guardian Angels, but they are now a hybrid of evil Vampire and regular used-to-be-holy Guardian Angel.

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About The Comic Book Series:

Lia Scott Price’s Vampire Guardian Angels is a creator-owned comic book series written and created by Horror Author Lia Scott Price. In the series, Guardian Angels from Heaven have become Vampires who kill people who pray for help to them, and both humans and “good” angels have to work to stop them.

What are Vampire Guardian Angels?

When you pray to guardian angels, do you know what they are? What if they were a vicious new breed and hybrid of serial killer, angel and vampire who target those who pray for help to them? Because they are tired of protecting us and want to put us out of our misery, by eating, and enslaving us. Don’t pray to them.

Plot Synopsis

In the fifth issue, Rule of Blood, a mysterious virus is killing Vampire Guardian Angels and Janos, their new Ruler, must find a cure. He sets up a "breeding program"  to repopulate his breed and provide virus-free humans for food. After the death of Leah and his unborn son,  Janos chooses Prince Jeromos Dracon, as his new heir, enraging Joseph, who also wants leadership. Jeromos kidnaps the author, Ms. Price, and plans to raise an army against Janos.  A resurrected Cameron makes one last attempt to save Joseph's life once again, and Joseph begins his quest to take over the leadership of the Vampire Guardian Angels.

The Story

Vampire Guardian Angels: Rule of Blood (Issue 5)

Back in Heaven, Joseph demands to see  Janos. Janos, surprised and concerned, angrily demands how Joseph got to heaven and Joseph  tells him about Gregory's death and about Cameron being like a father to him, and what Cameron did to Christina and that it was Cameron who but him, and that he wants revenge. Janos tells Joseph Cameron is their prisoner. Janos then orders  an infected human brought. He explains the plague and that Gregory had drank from an infected Earth Vampire. Because of his ties to Cameron, who Janos calls the killer of angels, Janos demands Joseph demonstrate his loyalty and to gain Janos's trust, Janos forces Joseph to drink from the infected man. Joseph at first hesitates, but does so, and Janos, pleased, reveals that the man is not infected after all.

Janos then orders only vampire guardian angels can breed with females who are believers and who pray because only the male humans are infected.  Then they can continue to have food and maintain their hold over the Earth Vampires. Chained human and vampire women are being held prisoner for Janos’s breeding program, to create more angels and an uninfected food source. Vampire Guardian Angels can produce only male offspring with human and vampire women due to their celestial powers. But the women must be believers in angels to be bred, which is why the Church must be involved to create more “believers”. Those uninfected women who are not chosen to breed become food. The male young will be harvested. Some will be killed off to create more angels who will ascend to Heaven with their own portals and turned into Vampire Guardian Angels. (The very young can be killed off by any angel since they are considered “innocents”.) Others, most likely the weak ones, will be fed to both Earth Vampires and Vampire Guardian Angels.

Joseph tells Jeromos that the problem is, they can only target healthy humans who pray to them, and most of the world has turned into different religions, and atheism is on the rise. Janos must find a way to force the humans to pray.

Janos says he will send both Joseph and  Jeromos to earth immediately along with several vampire guardian angels through the still-open portal of light created through Gregory's ascent to form an alliance with a militant branch of the Catholic church to frighten people into praying more, breeding more, and to use the churches to house the captive humans to feed to the Guardians, just like they did during the time of the inquisition. Joseph is reluctant to return to earth but tells himself he needs to get rid of  Jeromos first. Then he will use Jeromos's ascending spirit to get back into heaven.

Janos sees an opportunity forming as well. Vampire Guardian Angels being killed by the plague on Earth are ascending in balls of light, providing a chance for the Angels in Heaven to descend to Earth without burning. But he still needs to raise an army on Earth. Too many Angels are dying and the Vampire Guardian Angels need to regroup and repopulate before they can take over, and they need to get rid of the plague.

Jeromos secretly wants take over Janos's reign. He also wants to chose a new Queen, and a new legitimate heir. He is also suspicious of Joseph and does not want him to take over.  As a distraction, he sends Joseph to Detective Costa, who is dating the author Ms. Price, to find out more about the plague, and tells Joseph to tell Costa that Cameron sent him and that he needs his help. In the meantime, Jeromos quickly leaves the police station to raise an army through the Church, and kidnaps Ms. Price. Jeromos wants her because she is their "creator" who brought the Vampire Guardian Angels "to life" with her belief in the existence of them, which gave them a supernatural power and awakening, and also because her own blood supposedly holds power that rejuvenates them, which explains why she was able to make them come to life. Jeromos has  researched her background and found she does have royal blood, which makes her part of the prophecy (and hints that she may in fact be immortal). Jeromos plans to use Ms. Price to create his own new dynasty.

Costa tells Joseph that through his contact Catharina, the vampire Cameron saved from Gabriel, and who saved Joseph they learn that the earth vampires have found that healthy bodily fluids from a non-infected human will instantly heal them. To heal themselves, they must hang adult humans up on meat hooks and slice them open and shower in their blood, just like Janos's mother Elizabeth Bathory used to. Costa's  contact Catharina takes both Joseph and Costa to a warehouse in Long Beach, CA, where this is taking place.

Costa, Joseph, and Catharina are surprised by guards from the Church, led by Jeromos wearing a mysterious necklace that looks like a vial of blood mixed with gold, and who announces the guards as his holy army sent by powerful church leaders. Jeromos orders the guards to kill them.

But they are shielded by someone. It's Cameron, who escaped from Janos and Heaven and descended without the portal to save him and is now smoking and burning and transforming, with skin peeling off.

Jeromos attacks Joseph but Catharina saves him ones again, and dies. Joseph tries to burn Jeromos with his power of light but Jeromos disappears. Cameron, horribly burned, disappears again, presumably to go after Jeromos.

Now Jeromos and Joseph are enemies, fighting for leadership. Costa vows to rescue the author from Jeromos, and Joseph vows to find Jeromos, kill him, and use his ascending spirit to get back into Heaven and destroy Janos.

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About Lia Scott Price:

Lia Scott Price is a comic book writer, artist, and the creator of Vampire Guardian Angels^TM, characters from her vampire comic book series “Vampire Guardian Angels”. She brings a fresh, disturbing twist and an original story to the vampire genre  by turning Guardian Angels into a new breed of vampire (a hybrid of a serial killer, guardian angel, and vampire). Her comic book series features a unique, bloody and gory vampire that's entirely different and new. She also appears in her comic book series as an "author" character who "discovers" the existence of Vampire Guardian Angels and supernaturally, "brings them to life",  and becomes  "Queen of the Vampire Guardian Angels". She also features local metal bands in her comic book series.

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What are Vampire Guardian Angels?

Vampire Guardian Angels are Guardian Angels who have been bitten by Vampires, and have turned a deadly new breed and hybrid of Vampire and Angel. They can only respond to humans who pray specifically to a Guardian Angel, so that makes them Serial Killers.  They have to be "summoned" by "Guardian Angel Believers" who plead and pray for help or protection from Guardian Angels. Vampire Guardian Angels find, feed off, and enslave their human victims by using prayers as a "tracking device". Guardian Angels have become Serial Killers and Vampires. Don't Pray. You Become Prey.

About The Comic Book Series:

Vampire Guardian Angels is a creator-owned, independent and original comic book series created and written by Lia Scott Price. Enter a disturbing world where Guardian Angels have become vicious vampires and serial killers who hunt down humans who pray to them, who crave power and seek to enslave all humans and "earth" vampires. As these evil "Vampire Guardian Angels" begin to form armies and fight over a "creator" who holds the power of regeneration and the healing of angels, only one "good" angel remains to fight them, and both humans and "earth" vampires must also try to work together to stop them.

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The series is a mix of psychological action-thriller and horror-slasher. It's a bloody and gory comic book series done in a full-color cover with a black, white and red interior, featuring Vampire Guardian Angels with a zombie-like appetite, where they not only drink blood but can consume entire bodies.

The Concept:

When you pray to guardian angels for help, do you know what they are?  What if they were tired of protecting you and prefer to put you out of your misery instead of helping you?  Why do humans   always rely on a higher power to save them and  never question who or what it is they are summoning? 

Your Guardian Angel could actually be a serial killer. You may just be summoning something that hates you and who has turned completely disillusioned, rebellious, psychotic, and homicidal.  What if they did things that Guardian Angels aren't supposed to do? Plus, they could be vampires who drain you of your blood.

And to top it off,  what if your guardian angel also became an evil, deadly, brutal, new and different type of Vampire who enslaved you and fed on you?

The Story:

Enter a disturbing world where Guardian Angels have become vicious vampires and serial killers who hunt down and enslave humans who pray to them.

Trapped for centuries by a mystical power that required the power of belief and summoning to release them, they were “freed” when an “author” character played by Lia Scott Price accidentally brought them to life by proving they existed in the Bible and by writing extensively about them.

Issue 1: Prequel. Guardian Angels become Serial Killers:

The story begins with a Guardian Angel, Gabriel, first becoming a serial killer. Sick of listening to desperate prayers, of human whining about their miseries, and of helping and saving humans, he rebels and goes on a killing spree. He hated his role of being forced to serve a race of weak, begging, whining, institutionalized, easily-brainwashed humans who rely too much on the supernatural to save them. Angered by the fact that he is still bound by some rules of Heaven such as having to answer prayers because of the nature of what he is, he does everything he can to "stop" the prayers, eventually being driven mad by the voices he hears. Eventually "killed" by a "good" angel, Gabriel ascends to Heaven.

Issues 2 through 3: Guardian Angels become Vampires:

Gabriel resurrects in Heaven, but an "Earth" Vampire hitched a ride with his ascending body. The Vampire bites the Angel, and the Angel turns all Guardian Angels into an even more powerful and almost invincible breed of Vampire, immune to holy water, sunlight, and crucifixes, because of their "holy" origins. Some are trapped in Heaven, where this new hybrid waits for a "portal" to be opened to invade Earth. But back on Earth, there are other guardian angels who have already been bitten by and turned into vampires, or who are just realizing that they are a new hybrid. In short, Guardian Angels trade in their halos for fangs. They still have to respond to prayers since they are still Angels, but now they use human prayers as a "beacon" to find their food.

Issues 4 through 6 and ongoing: Vampire Guardian Angels become Conquerors:

Ruled by a proclaimed and prophesied King, eventually individual Vampire Guardian Angels start to rebel against each other and to form their own "kingdoms".  Now resentful of their "jobs" as angels who "forced" to  protectors to humans, they now seek revenge and to take over both Heaven and Earth and make all humans and any “believers” in guardian angels, their slaves. These pop-culture sacred icons become lustful, vengeful, seductive, psychopathic, sociopathic, angry, jealous, traumatized, and resentful vampires who pillage and murder both humans and Earth Vampires. Realizing their new power, invincibility, and immortality as vampires and angels,  Vampire Guardian Angels start to enslave both regular “Earth” vampires and humans  ("believers") for food and breeding to continue their species. They begin to form armies, rebel against their King, and fight each other to rule over mankind. They also pursue and fight over the author, now their chosen “Queen of the Vampire Guardian Angels” because as their “creator”, her blood holds the power of “regeneration” and the healing of angels and, when combined with holy relics, can make Vampire Guardian Angels "invincible".

Good Vs Evil?

Each issue introduces each character and their goals, motives and origins as they fight each other for power. Characters have the choice of whether to join or destroy evil. The "good" angels who remain to fight them are torn between saving humans with very little reward and too much work and self-sacrifice, and rebelling against their traditional protector roles to become evil doing whatever they want to do. The angels are flawed and also struggle with their own once-human emotions and "issues".  In the series, the good may be evil and the evil may or may not turn back to good.  There’s always a couple of good guys and hero-types in the series, but in this comic book, they can also change. 

A Brutal, Metal Comic Book Series:

It’s also "metal" comic book. This serial-killing Vampire Guardian Angel hybrid will hunt you down through your whiny prayers, slice you up, brutally tear you apart and feast on your bloody dripping carcass. They “shred” (bodies). The series does occasionally feature local Los Angeles metal, death metal and black metal bands, (Lia’s friends) both active and inactive, just for fun, as background characters.

What inspired the Comic Book Series? 

Lia Scott Price's stories question why we rely so much on that supernatural entity to save us, and why we put so much of that blind faith in a higher power to help us and we don't even know what it is we are summoning. Guardian Angels or any supernatural entity could be a serial killer or a vampire. She uses horror to explore an alternate view of Guardian Angels and was inspired to create something disturbing from something "normal" and innocent",  and to turn it into something terrifying.

Why Guardian Angels?

"It may be disturbing to turn a guardian angel into a serial killer and a vampire, especially something that kills you when you pray. But I'm exploring what a guardian angel could be, since it's a supernatural being That's the whole point of my comic books: to make Guardian Angels into something evil in a vampire series.  My stories are designed to make you think, to question what your Guardian Angel is because you don't even know what it is you're praying to and you never know what's coming for you. It could be my very angry, and very hungry, Vampire Guardian Angels."--Lia Scott Price

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About the Characters (Character List)

Vampire Guardian Angels Q&A

Creative Team: (Past and Current, Per Issue)

-Lia Scott Price the writer and creator of the Vampire Guardian Angels comic book series. She is the artist, letterer, colorist (interior), and co-inker for Issue 6, and artist, letterer, and colorist for Issue 7 and future issues.

-Andrew Huerta is the inker and cover artist for Issue 6, and cover artist/colorist for Issue 7. He is a freelance/comic book artist who has worked on many titles with publishers like IDW Publishing, Dynamite Entertainment and BOOM! Studios.

-Chad Hammontree is the colorist, letterer, graphic designer and art director for Lia Scott Price's Vampire Guardian Angels comic book series. (Issues 1-5, and the cover of Issue 6)  He is a graduate from Missouri Western State University and is a freelance artist.

-Andrew Setter was the (former) artist and illustrator for Lia Scott Price's Vampire Guardian Angels comic book series (Issues 1-5).  He is a graduate from Missouri Western State University and is a freelance artist.

Comic Book Issue Titles and their Artists (with Creative Team Credits) :

Q. Do the comic books in the series have titles?

A. Yes, just like "episode" titles.

Lia Scott Price's Vampire Guardian Angels Comic Book Series:

Vampire Guardian Angels: The Guardian (Issue 1) (Price/Setter/Hammontree)
Vampire Guardian Angels: Revenant (Issue 2) (Price/Setter/Hammontree)
Vampire Guardian Angels: Dominion (Issue 3) (Price/Setter/Hammontree)
Vampire Guardian Angels: Resurrection: Afterlife (Issue 4) (Price/Setter/Hammontree)
Vampire Guardian Angels: Rule of Blood (Issue 5) (Price/Setter/Hammontree)
Vampire Guardian Angels: Immortal's Reliquary (Issue 6) (Price/Huerta/Hammontree)
Vampire Guardian Angels: Apocalypse (Issue 7) (Price/Huerta)

Future issues and sequels will be drawn by Lia Scott Price.

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Creative Team Trivia

-Vampire Guardian Angels will be drawn by Lia Scott Price starting with Issue 6 and future issues on.

-Issue 6 is Lia Scott Price's first time as a comic book artist, letterer, and colorist for her own comic book. Her drawings appear in Issue 6, Issue 7, and future issues.

-Vampire Guardian Angels is Price's first comic book series as an independent author and publisher.

- This is the first comic book series project for artists Andrew Setter (Issues 1-5) and Chad Hammontree.

- The series was originally created by Lia Scott Price in 2012.

-The comic books are based on Lia Scott Price's Vampire Trilogy novel "The Guardian, Revenant, and Dominion"

Q and A with Lia Scott Price

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Main Characters of the Vampire Guardian Angels Comic Book Series

Ms. Price (The "Author" and "Creator"): She's a medieval history researcher who discovers the inquisition his vampires and that there were "Vampire Guardian Angels in the Bible". She accidentally "awakens" them supernaturally because of her obsessive belief in trying to let the world know about their existence. Jeromos discovered that, as the "creator", her blood has healing powers. He turns her into a vampire. She has royal blood, and she's the secret antidote to healing his army and those who follow him. So he gets one step closer to ruling.

Cameron: A Guardian Angel disguised as an L.A. police detective sent to stop Gabriel, but who also becomes a Vampire Guardian Angel. Relax, he's one of the good guys...for now. He spends a hell of a lot of his time trying to fight the bad guys, and is especially obsessed with stopping Gabriel. Cameron is known as the "The Killer of Angels." In the Vampire Guardian Angel world, only good angels can kill bad ones. But right now, there's only one of him, and he has his hands full.

Detective Costa: A chain-smoking, grumpy but smart and dedicated detective who helps Cameron track down the bad guys. He's impulsive, and oftentimes unsure of what to do when faced with supernatural creatures, but then again you would be too if you had to fight an army of Vampire Guardian Angels.

Gabriel: a psychopathic Serial Killing Vampire Guardian Angel who hunts down people through their prayers of despair. He is the most feared, pst dangerous and mentally unstable of all the Vampire Guardian Angels, primarily because prayers drive him insane and all he wants to do is shut everyone up. He kills methodically and without mercy. He appears helpful and charming at first, before he slices you up and drains you of your blood.

Janos: Current King and leader of the Vampire  Guardian Angels. He’s of royal blood, but he’s  seen as a weak, indecisive, manic-depressive, insecure leader who everyone wants to overthrow. He takes pleasure and solace in hacking people to pieces and drinking blood from their decapitated heads. But because of his ruthlessness, (he’s merciless to his enemies, which earns him precious points), he is able to hang on to power….barely.  He’d rather sink in deep depression than rule, but he’s always  been told this is his destiny, so he reluctantly accepts the leadership.

Prince Jeromos: Also of royal blood like Janos, and Janos's Second-in-Command and his chosen successor. But he’s a backstabber and a not-so-loyal heir. He’s impatient for the throne, so he raises an army and breaks away from Janos. He’s also power-hungry and ruthless. He’s quite the talented alchemist though, coming up with rather bloody healing potions. In the Vampire Guardian Angel world, he’s known as “The Healer”. But he also wants to be known as “King”.

Joseph: Cameron’s stepson.  A hot-tempered, jealous, misguided, vengeful and power-hungry Vampire Guardian Angel who has  the “power of light” capable of burning angels, but those powers only work if he’s one of the good guys. Right now he’s leaning more towards becoming a bad guy because, well, he wants to rule both Heaven and Earth, even if it means becoming evil. Oh yeah, he’s also known as “The Angel Killer”, a title his stepfather also shares, but he’s not too happy about that.