It’s the tenth anniversary of Twilight-esque vampire saga, Blood Mountain, and superfan Taylor has won a contest to visit the town it was filmed in, meet the actors and even stay in the protagonist’s house while she’s in town. Yet rumours start to swirl of a covered-up murder at the house, and Taylor herself receives threats as the Blood Mountain actors start to clash over old grievances.

There’s a major misstep in Fixation, aside from its very generic title: the ‘rumoured’ murder is directly shown in the opening scene, and that being potentially a publicity stunt, or something to build uncertainty around, could have been an interesting angle for the narrative as it unfolds. As it is, we’re shown it so explicitly that there’s no doubt, so we already know something is up by the time Taylor and her plus one arrive.

There’s a good cast of potential killers though, with a few of the mostly unlikeable Blood Mountain actors being prime suspects for what’s going on.

The art is a bit dark and murky at times, but the storytelling is still strong from a visual perspective (phone screen text and other elements using tiny typography notwithstanding).

There’s a good sense of realism in the art though, with a muted colour scheme that, in a clever touch, becomes more vibrant when Blood Mountain itself is being recreated on the page.

It’s a long comic too, making for a pretty eventful and reasonably dense read for a comic, with lots of different threads being set up in this opening issue. The whole meta aspect of fans being on set while potentially real ‘vampire’ killings are happening is certainly well done, and the whodunnit is very intriguing too.

I’ll definitely be adding Fixation to the reading list, and look forward to the next issue.

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