Blood City Rollers: Discover the Special Sauce for Being a Good Team Player in this EXCLUSIVE Minicomic
Can you think of anything more rad than a roller derby team? The camaraderie! The kick-butt nicknames! The empowering rush of a full-contact sport! How about one made up almost exclusively of VAMPIRES? Author V.P. Anderson and artist Tatiana Hill are giving our readers a peek into the fast-paced world of Paranormal Roller Derby in an EXCLUSIVE minicomic inspired by their new graphic novel, Blood City Rollers!
But before they do, we need to back up and give you a little rundown. Because Mina wasn’t always a derby girl, she was actually an ice skater!
At the beginning of the story, we meet Mina, a talented figure skater with her sights set on an Olympic gold medal. She’s been skating since she was three and has the chance to make it to the Olympics before she graduates high school. She sinks her heart and soul into training and competing, and she likes it, but she wishes it didn’t come with so much pressure, especially from her mom.
One day, Mina wipes out during a huge competition, leaving both her arm and her dreams broken. She isn’t sure what she’ll do with all this free time and no goals to chase, but thankfully, she won’t have to worry about that for too long – because she literally gets kidnapped by an undead paranormal roller derby team.
Skates on. Fangs out. Let’s roll. This perfectly paranormal graphic novel about a 13-year-old ice skater who embraces the dark side and finds her light when she joins a vampire roller derby team is to die for.
Ice-skater Mina is on a one-track path to Olympic gold and glory—that is, until she totally wipes out at her biggest competition, and is kinda-sorta-kidnapped by undead kids on roller skates. Sucked into the high stakes world of Paranormal Roller Derby, she finds herself “recruited” by a squad of vampires who need a human player to complete their team—just in time to save the league from losing it all.
Between learning to play derby well enough to kick butt on the track, crushing hard on the dreamy team captain, and navigating the spooky rules of the supernatural, how can Mina go from striving to be a ten alone, to becoming one of nine chaotic bodies forming a perfectly-imperfect team? Forget being the best. Will she be enough to help her new friends survive the season?
Blood City Rollers
AUTHOR: V.P. Anderson
ILLUSTRATOR: Tatiana Hill
PUBLISHER: Labyrinth Road
DATE: April 9, 2024
The Vamps are a team of vampires in a paranormal league made up of everything from witches to fairies. The Vamps need a human player to help lead their team to victory and save their roller derby league, and in exchange for both her help and her silence, they’ll heal Mina’s arm. She’ll have to train hard to learn the ropes of this new sport, but she’ll also learn a thing or two about friendship, first crushes, and learning to be a team player along the way. Can she bring this spooky league to victory?
Blood City Rollers is filled with vibrantly colored illustrations, hilarious quips, and a story that packs a punch of heart and friendship!
Since learning to play on a team is one of Mina’s biggest hurdles, she’s here to share a few things she’s learned from her time as a jammer for a supernatural roller derby league in a minicomic created by V.P. Anderson & Tatiana Hill, creators of Blood City Rollers. (Psst: The history of Paranormal Roller Derby is super neat. Want a breakdown of how it came to be and a peek into the rules of roller derby? Check out their website!
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