Scare Tactics (comics)

The series focused on the band Scare Tactics, teenage monsters who escaped from government custody and decided to hide in plain sight by becoming traveling rock and roll musicians, trying to escape their pasts while encountering supernatural adventures on the road.

The band members consisted of:

• Arnold Burnsteel (manager/bus driver) - A conspiracy theorist who rescued the rest of the cast from the top secret R-Complex facility in New Mexico with the help of his friend Jared Stevens.^[1]
• Fang (lead guitarist Jake Ketchum) - A hard-rocking hillbilly werewolf originating from the Appalachian Mountains. He fled from an arranged marriage meant to end his family's long-running feud with the rival Knightsbridge family.^[1]
• Gross-Out (drummer Philbert Hoskins) - A bullied fat kid obsessed with astronomy who was mutated by meteorite radiation into a grey sludge monster. Despite his revolting appearance and inability to talk clearly, he is intelligent, goodhearted and extremely loyal to his bandmates.^[1] Philbert eventually evolves into a god-like being and flies off to be among the stars.
• Scream Queen (lead singer Nina Skorzeny) - A cynical vampire from Markovia who came to the United States to escape the "ethnic cleansing" of her kind. She can transform into a black cat.^[1]
• Slither (bass guitarist James Tilton) - A human-reptile hybrid who was transformed by his father, a biochemist, as part of his medical experiments. He secretly has a crush on Nina, but fears hurting her and his friends.^[1]