ISSUE #05 // BLOOD POP
JULIET STARLING // SAN ROMERO OCCULT COMIC FILE

FIVE POINT RITUAL

HEY, ZOMBIE BOY.

The apocalypse isn't just a zombie outbreak. Swan has arranged five Dark Purveyors around San Romero, creating a ritual geometry whose points must be sacrificed before Killabilly can appear.

Juliet thinks she's just kicking zombie ass. Oops. She's completing the pentagram.
♥ CHAINSAW CUTE
★ RITUAL ALERT
♡ SAN ROMERO
★!
♡!

THIS ISN'T
JUST A
BOSS RUSH

Each major boss is part of the same supernatural structure. The five Dark Purveyors are distributed around San Romero so that their locations correspond to the points of a pentagram.

JULIET'S PLAN:

Find the weird zombie monsters.
Kill the weird zombie monsters.
Save San Romero.

SWAN'S PLAN:

Let Juliet kill the five ritual sacrifices.
Complete the pentagram.
Summon Killabilly.

FIVE POINTS.
ONE CENTER.

ZED POINT 01
VIKKE POINT 02
MARISKA POINT 03
JOSEY POINT 04
LEWIS POINT 05
KILLABILLY

THE
PENTAGRAM

Each Purveyor functions as one point in the ritual structure.

Their territories create the geometry across San Romero.

Their deaths provide the necessary sacrifices.

♥ POINTS: THE FIVE BOSSES

♥ CENTER: KILLABILLY

♥ ARCHITECT: SWAN

WHO'S
GETTING
SACRIFICED?

POINT 01
PUNK ROCK

ZED

The opening Purveyor. His punk-rock identity turns rage, expression and profanity into supernatural attacks.

♥ FIRST SACRIFICE
POINT 02
VIKING METAL

VIKKE

A storm-producing Viking metal monster whose battlefield pushes the ritual into spectacular supernatural territory.

♥ SECOND SACRIFICE
POINT 03
PSYCHEDELIA

MARISKA

The point where perception starts falling apart. Her psychedelic world makes reality itself unstable.

♥ THIRD SACRIFICE
POINT 04
FUNK

JOSEY

Arcade lights, UFO imagery and spectacle turn his section into a giant supernatural stage.

♥ FOURTH SACRIFICE
POINT 05
ROCK N' ROLL

LEWIS

The final Purveyor. Once Lewis falls, all five ritual points have been activated.

♥ FIFTH SACRIFICE

JULIET'S
LITTLE
TO-DO LIST

ZED ♥
VIKKE ♥
MARISKA ♥
JOSEY ♥
LEWIS ♥
KILLABILLY
GIRL, YOU JUST FINISHED A PENTAGRAM.

Every boss defeated looks like another step toward saving San Romero.

But every death is also another completed ritual point.

Swan couldn't have asked for a better executioner.

SWAN

RITUAL ARCHITECT

HUMAN ANTAGONIST

THE ONE WHO SETS THE FIVE POINTS IN MOTION

01 // CREATES THE CONDITIONS THE OUTBREAK
02 // POSITIONS THE THREATS THE PURVEYORS
03 // USES THE HEROINE JULIET
04 // DESIRED RESULT KILLABILLY

SHE THINKS
SHE'S
WINNING.

JULIET'S
VERSION

FIVE GIANT ZOMBIES ARE DESTROYING SAN ROMERO.

KILL THEM ALL.

SAVE EVERYBODY.

♥ EASY.

SWAN'S
VERSION

FIVE RITUAL POINTS ARE WAITING TO BE SACRIFICED.

JULIET WILL KILL THEM.

THE PENTAGRAM WILL CLOSE.

♥ PERFECT.

HELLO,
KILLABILLY.

The five Purveyors are the perimeter.

Their deaths complete the ritual.

The central manifestation is Killabilly, the enormous supernatural threat that appears after Swan's ritual has reached its conclusion.

FIVE POINTS.

Five Purveyors.

Five deaths.

One completed pentagram.

One monster in the middle.

♥ THAT'S THE WHOLE TRICK.
FIVE
POINTS.
ONE
HEART.

Swan builds the ritual. The Dark Purveyors become its five points. Juliet unknowingly performs the sacrifices. The pentagram closes. Killabilly waits in the center.

The entire boss progression is one giant occult mechanism disguised as a candy-colored zombie massacre.

♥ LOLLIPOP CHAINSAW ♥