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Casey Sullivan was once a baseball legend. But that all changed at the 1976 World Series, when a ball he caught dropped from his hand. Now, he's a jaded, washed-up Alcoholic whom his hometown despises, and coach to the Dragons.

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Casey Sullivan was once a baseball legend. But that all changed at the 1976 [[UsefulNotes/MajorLeagueBaseball World Series, Series]], when a ball he caught dropped from his hand. Now, he's a jaded, washed-up Alcoholic whom his hometown despises, and coach to the Dragons.
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* FunnyAfro: Cornell has one.
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* PummelingTheCorpse: The survivors of Caseys team spend a good fifteen minutes attacking the corpse of [[spoiler:George Sullivan]] to make sure it's dead.

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* PummelingTheCorpse: The survivors of Caseys team spend a good fifteen minutes attacking the corpse of [[spoiler:George Sullivan]] Malice]] to make sure it's dead.
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* FunnyAfro: One of the members of Casey's team has one.

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* FunnyAfro: One of the members of Casey's team Cornell has one.



* KatanasAreJustBetter: One of the team shoplifts a katana from a convenience store. It becomes his main weapon against the monsters.

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* KatanasAreJustBetter: One of the team Cornell shoplifts a katana from a convenience store. It becomes his main weapon against the monsters.
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* CreepyBasement: Casey and Smith search the basement of a farmhouse, and discover it's full of rotting corpses of previous victims of the townsfolk.


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* HalfTheManHeUsedToBe: A few examples. One guy in the bleachers gets bitten in half by a monster, and Casey and Smith find the upper half of a cheerleader's corpse in the above-mentioned CreepyBasement.
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* ScrewThisImOuttaHere: When the citizens of Malice reveal themselves as monsters, one of Casey's team, Speedy Joe, legs it out of there.
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* DwindlingParty: Members of the main cast get picked off over the course of the comic, until only [[spoiler:Smith, Duncan, and two others]] remain.

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* DwindlingParty: Members of the main cast get picked off over the course of the comic, until only [[spoiler:Smith, Duncan, Cornell, and two others]] The Slugger]] remain.
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* PummelingTheCorpse: The survivors of Caseys team spend a good fifteen minutes attacking the corpse of [[spoiler:George Sullivan]] to make sure it's dead.
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* HeroicSacrifice: [[spoiler:Casey]] stays behind while the rest of the team leaves in the agent's car to kill [[spoiler:The giant Malice monster]]. He does so by [[spoiler:plugging a stick of dynamite into a gasoline truck, which he then shoots, causing it to blow up]].

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* HeroicSacrifice: [[spoiler:Casey]] stays behind while the rest of the team leaves in the agent's Smith's car to kill [[spoiler:The giant Malice monster]].[[spoiler:George Malice]]. He does so by [[spoiler:plugging a stick of dynamite into a gasoline truck, which he then shoots, causing it to blow up]].
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* KatanasAreJustBetter: One of the team shoplifts a katana in a discarded duffle bag, and decides to use it to fight against the monsters.

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* KatanasAreJustBetter: One of the team shoplifts a katana in from a discarded duffle bag, and decides to use it to fight convenience store. It becomes his main weapon against the monsters.

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* AscendedFanboy: Duncan considered Casey and his team his childhood heroes. Now he's a member of the team.



* DwindlingParty: Members of the main cast get picked off over the course of the comic, until only four remain.

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* DwindlingParty: Members of the main cast get picked off over the course of the comic, until only four [[spoiler:Smith, Duncan, and two others]] remain.



* PopGoesTheHuman: [[spoiler:[=McKee=] is killed when he's grabbed by Malice, who squeezes him until he bursts.]]

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* PopGoesTheHuman: [[spoiler:[=McKee=] is killed when he's grabbed by Malice, who squeezes him until he bursts.]]bursts]].
* ShotgunsAreJustBetter: Casey finds a shotgun mounted over a fireplace in the farmhouse he and half his team search for anything to defend themselves. He is immediately drawn to it.
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* KatanasAreJustBetter: One of the team finds a katana in a discarded duffle bag, and decides to use it to fight against the monsters.

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* KatanasAreJustBetter: One of the team finds shoplifts a katana in a discarded duffle bag, and decides to use it to fight against the monsters.
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* HeroicSacrifice: [[spoiler:Casey]] stays behind while the rest of the team leaves in the agent's car to kill [[spoiler:The giant Malice monster]]. He does so by [[spoiler:plugging a stick of dynamite into a gasoline truck, which he then shoots, causing it to blow up]].


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* PopGoesTheHuman: [[spoiler:[=McKee=] is killed when he's grabbed by Malice, who squeezes him until he bursts.]]
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* DwindlingParty: Members of the main cast get picked off over the course of the comic, until only four remain.
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* ChainsawGood: A policeman wields a chainsaw against the monsters while protecting Casey and his team.

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* ChainsawGood: A policeman The bus driver wields a chainsaw against the monsters while protecting Casey and his team.



* TownWithADarkSecret: The town Casey and his team come to is one where the townspeople become flesh-eating monsters after sundown.

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* TownWithADarkSecret: The Malice, the town Casey and his team come to is one where the townspeople become flesh-eating monsters after sundown.sundown. This is because, many years ago [[spoiler:the townsfolk killed a rich black man and his family by sealing them in their home, and burning it to the ground. They then lynched all but one black witness, and when the story got out, hosted a KangarooCourt to escape from justice. The local preacher, angry at the townsfolk for their actions, condemned them. He then got lynched to death, and with his final breath, cursed the townsfolk to become monsters whenever the sun goes down]].

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Sullivan's Sluggers is a [[HorrorComicBooks Horror Comic Book]] by Mark Andrew Smith.

Casey Sullivan was once a baseball legend. But that all changed at the 1976 World Series, when a ball he caught dropped from his hand. Now, he's a jaded, washed-up Alcoholic whom his hometown despises, and coach to the dragons.

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Sullivan's Sluggers [[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/sullivans_sluggers.jpg]]

''Sullivan's Sluggers''
is a [[HorrorComicBooks Horror Comic Book]] by Mark Andrew Smith.

Casey Sullivan was once a baseball legend. But that all changed at the 1976 World Series, when a ball he caught dropped from his hand. Now, he's a jaded, washed-up Alcoholic whom his hometown despises, and coach to the dragons.
Dragons.



!!Sullivan's Sluggers contains examples of:

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!!Sullivan's Sluggers !!''Sullivan's Sluggers'' contains examples of:
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Casey Sullivan was once a baseball legend. But that all changed in 1976, when a ball he caught dropped from his hand. Now, he's a jaded, washed-up Alcoholic whom his hometown despises, and coach to the dragons.

When his team gets invited to play a game in some small town, he takes it, expecting it to be just another game. However, at the seventh inning stretch, the sun goes down, and the team discovers that the invitation was a trap so he and his team could be eaten by the town's monstrous inhabitants.

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Casey Sullivan was once a baseball legend. But that all changed in 1976, at the 1976 World Series, when a ball he caught dropped from his hand. Now, he's a jaded, washed-up Alcoholic whom his hometown despises, and coach to the dragons.

When his team gets invited to play a game in some small town, he takes it, expecting it to be just another game. However, at the seventh inning stretch, the sun goes down, and the team discovers that the invitation was a trap so he and his team could be eaten alive by the town's monstrous inhabitants.
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* DestinationDefinistration: During the above-mentioned BarBrawl, a couple of people (one of them being a member of Casey's team) end up thrown through a window.

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* DestinationDefinistration: DestinationDefenestration: During the above-mentioned BarBrawl, a couple of people (one of them being a member of Casey's team) end up thrown through a window.
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* DestinationDefinistration: During the above-mentioned BarBrawl, a couple of people (one of them being a member of Casey's team) end up thrown through a window.
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* GreivousBottleyHarm: When someone in a bar insults Casey a little too much, Casey responds by breaking a bottle on his face.

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* GreivousBottleyHarm: GrievousBottleyHarm: When someone in a bar insults Casey a little too much, Casey responds by breaking a bottle on his face.
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* GreivousBottleyHarm: When someone in a bar insults Casey a little too much, Casey responds by breaking a bottle on his face.

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* NeverMyFault: Casey maintains that the reason he failed to catch that ball in '76 was because someone put vaseline on his glove as a prank.
* SingleMaltVision: When Casey confronts somebody in a bar who insulted him, he says this.
--> '''Casey:''' I'll flap my '''[=FISTS=]'''...! I'mma gonna pulverize all '''three''' of you red...hiccup...rednecks.

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* NeverMyFault: Casey maintains that the reason he failed to catch that ball in '76 was because someone put vaseline Vaseline on his glove as a prank.
* SingleMaltVision: When Casey confronts somebody in a bar who insulted him, he says this.
--> '''Casey:''' I'll flap my '''[=FISTS=]'''...! I'mma gonna pulverize all '''three''' of you red...hiccup...rednecks.
prank.
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* SingleMaltVision: When Casey confronts somebody in a bar who insulted him, he says this.
--> '''Casey:''' I'll flap my '''[=FISTS=]'''...! I'mma gonna pulverize all '''three''' of you red...hiccup...rednecks.
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* BatterUp: Since they're a baseball team, of course Sullivan and his team mainly use baseball bats against the monsters.
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* BarBrawl: Casey ends up getting his team involved in one following an altercation with someone who was insulting him.
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* ChainsawGood: A policeman wields a chainsaw against the monsters while protecting Casey and his team.
* FunnyAfro: One of the members of Casey's team has one.
* KatanasAreJustBetter: One of the team finds a katana in a discarded duffle bag, and decides to use it to fight against the monsters.
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* NeverMyFault: Casey maintains that the reason he failed to catch that ball in '76 was because someone put vaseline on his glove as a prank.
* TownWithADarkSecret: The town Casey and his team come to is one where the townspeople become flesh-eating monsters after sundown.
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* TheAlcaholic: Casey Sullivan.

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* TheAlcaholic: TheAlcoholic: Casey Sullivan.
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Sullivan's Sluggers is a [[HorrorComicBooks Horror Comic Book]] by Mark Andrew Smith.

Casey Sullivan was once a baseball legend. But that all changed in 1976, when a ball he caught dropped from his hand. Now, he's a jaded, washed-up Alcoholic whom his hometown despises, and coach to the dragons.

When his team gets invited to play a game in some small town, he takes it, expecting it to be just another game. However, at the seventh inning stretch, the sun goes down, and the team discovers that the invitation was a trap so he and his team could be eaten by the town's monstrous inhabitants.

Now, the team needs to fight their way through a town of flesh-eating monsters and escape with their lives.

The comic was funded on Website/{{Kickstarter}} on June 16th, 2012. It was released on January 8th, 2013.

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* TheAlcaholic: Casey Sullivan.
* AlliterativeTitle: '''S'''ullivan's '''S'''luggers.
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