#sweetingenuity

Heartless is a completed webcomic by Emily Griggs @sweetingenuityart.  Featuring a mostly queer cast, the comic follows Clara Adams, and asexual/aromantic woman living in 1852 London.  When Clara dies and comes back as a vampire, she gets caught up in a conflict between two factions of vampires fighting for control of the city.  

The comic originally ran from January 2015 to September 2017.  The archive is fairly short, because it only updated once a week.  More than two years after it ended, I decided to reread the whole thing.  I think it still holds up well.

Aside from the queer themes, the main thing that distinguishes Heartless from other stories about vampires is that all important characters are vampires.  There are no humans who are somehow able to operate on the same level as vampires.  There is no Abraham Van Helsing.  There is no Buffy Summers.  Clara is a human in the beginning, but once she becomes a vampire, the next most important human character isn’t even named.  

When Heartless ended, the author stated her intention to release a sequel eventually.  She also said that there would be a Kickstarter to compile the current online pages into a book.  So far, neither of those things have happened.