History Literature / JackieAndCraig

* PoliticalCorrectnessGoneMad: The very first scene has an elderly woman sending Craig into a panic attack because [[ArsonMurderAndJaywalking she screamed at him for using the Lord's name in vain]].

[[caption-width-right:328:"We're in for one Hell of a night."]]

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[[caption-width-right:350:HUNGER REIGNS!]]

* EarlyInstallmentWeirdness: Compared to the rest of the [[Franchise/TeenageWastelands Franchise,]] this one is markedly different. This is a quirky, coming-of-age horror/comedy and the rest of the franchise is a DieselPunk UrbanFantasy about gangs of feral (sometimes supernaturally powerful) children at war with an insidious secret society. It extends even to the style - ''Jackie and Craig'' is all from Craig's perspective and Literature/TheRiseAndFallOfTheSkyValleyCult hops point-of-view to reveal more of the setting and history. Nothing about Jackie And Craig implies the world it takes place in is anything other than TheNineties with cryptids running around, while the AlternateHistory aspects of ''Sky Valley'' are completely integral to the plotline.

* EarlyInstallmentWeirdness: Compared to the rest of the [[Franchise/TeenageWastelands Franchise,]] this one is markedly different. This is a quirky, coming-of-age horror/comedy and the rest of the franchise is a DieselPunk UrbanFantasy about gangs of feral (sometimes supernaturally powerful) children at war with an insidious secret society. It extends even to the style - ''Jackie and Craig'' is all from Craig's perspective and Literature/TheRiseAndFallOfTheSkyValleyCult hops POVs to reveal more of the setting and history. Nothing about Jackie And Craig implies the world it takes place in is anything other than The90s with cryptids running around, while the AlternateHistory aspects of ''Sky Valley'' are completely integral to the plotline.

* EarlyInstallmentWeirdness: Compared to the rest of the [[Franchise/TeenageWastelands Franchise,]] this one is markedly different. This is a quirky, coming-of-age horror/comedy and the rest of the franchise is a DieselPunk UrbanFantasy about gangs of feral (sometimes supernaturally powerful) children at war with an insidious secret society. It extends even to the style - Jackie and Craig is all from Craig's perspective and Literature/TeenageWastelands hops POVs to reveal more of the setting and history. Nothing about Jackie And Craig implies the world it takes place in is anything other than The90s with cryptids running around, while the AlternateHistory aspects of Literature/TeenageWastelands are completely integral to the plotline.

* EarlyInstallmentWeirdness: Compared to the rest of the [[Franchise/TeenageWastelands Franchise,]] this one is markedly different. This is a quirky, coming-of-age horror/comedy and the rest of the franchise is a DeiselPunk UrbanFantasy about gangs of feral (sometimes supernaturally powerful) children at war with an insidious secret society. It extends even to the style - Jackie and Craig is all from Craig's perspective and TeenageWastelands hops POVs to reveal more of the setting and history. Nothing about Jackie And Craig implies the world it takes place in is anything other than The90s with cryptids running around, while the AlternateHistory aspects of TeenageWastelands are completely integral to the plotline.

''Jackie and Craig'' is a Young Adult Horror/[[UrbanFantasy Urban Fantasy]] novel by [[Creator/KentJStarrett Kent J. Starrett]], published on Devil's Eve of 2017. The story follows the asthmatic [[RebelliousSpirit hell-raising tomboy]] Jacqueline Parker and the [[NervousWreck perpetually terrified]] Craig Steiger, two [[OddFriendship grossly mismatched]] [[KidHero sixth-grade friends]] who discover that [[TownWithADarkSecret bizarre creatures emerge during the night]] in their hometown. Taking it upon themselves to clear Shadow Creek of its unholy infestation, Jackie and Craig set about creating an arsenal of [[ImprovisedWeapon improvised weaponry]] to slaughter their way through the hordes of [[OurMonstersAreWeird progressively trippier and trippier "abominations"]] as they try to win friends to help in their lone stand against the increasingly oppressive otherworldly onslaught. It was followed by a sequel two years later, ''[[Literature/TheRiseAndFallOfTheSkyValleyCult Teenage Wastelands: The Rise and Fall of the Sky Valley Cult]]'', which [[GenreShift took a different direction]] and focused on the surviving characters facing [[TeenageWasteland a compound full of savage, warmongering psychic teenagers]].

''Jackie and Craig'' is a Young Adult Horror/[[UrbanFantasy Urban Fantasy]] novel by [[Creator/KentJStarrett Kent J. Starrett]], published on Devil's Eve of 2017. The story follows the asthmatic [[RebelliousSpirit hell-raising tomboy]] Jacqueline Parker and the [[NervousWreck perpetually terrified]] Craigory Greenberg, two [[OddFriendship grossly mismatched]] [[KidHero sixth-grade friends]] who discover that [[TownWithADarkSecret bizarre creatures emerge during the night]] in their hometown. Taking it upon themselves to clear Shadow Creek of its unholy infestation, Jackie and Craig set about creating an arsenal of [[ImprovisedWeapon improvised weaponry]] to slaughter their way through the hordes of [[OurMonstersAreWeird progressively trippier and trippier "abominations"]] as they try to win friends to help in their lone stand against the increasingly oppressive otherworldly onslaught. It was followed by a sequel two years later, ''[[Literature/TheRiseAndFallOfTheSkyValleyCult Teenage Wastelands: The Rise and Fall of the Sky Valley Cult]]'', which [[GenreShift took a different direction]] and focused on the surviving characters facing [[TeenageWasteland a compound full of savage, warmongering psychic teenagers]].

''Jackie and Craig'' is a Young Adult Horror/[[UrbanFantasy Urban Fantasy]] novel by [[Creator/KentJStarrett Kent J. Starrett]], published on Devil's Eve of 2017. The story follows the asthmatic [[RebelliousSpirit hell-raising tomboy]] Jacqueline Parker and the [[NervousWreck perpetually terrified]] Craigory Greenberg, two [[OddFriendship grossly mismatched]] [[KidHero sixth-grade friends]] who discover that [[TownWithADarkSecret bizarre creatures emerge during the night]] in their hometown. Taking it upon themselves to clear Shadow Creek of its unholy infestation, Jackie and Craig set about creating an arsenal of [[ImprovisedWeapon improvised weaponry]] to slaughter their way through the hordes of [[OurMonstersAreWeird progressively trippier and trippier "abominations"]] as they try to win friends to help in their lone stand against the increasingly oppressive otherworldly onslaught. It was followed by a sequel two years later, ''[[TheRiseAndFallOfTheSkyValleyCult Teenage Wastelands: The Rise and Fall of the Sky Valley Cult]]'', which [[GenreShift took a different direction]] and focused on the surviving characters facing [[TeenageWasteland a compound full of savage, warmongering psychic teenagers]].

''Jackie and Craig'' is a Young Adult Horror/[[UrbanFantasy Urban Fantasy]] novel by [[Creator/KentJStarrett Kent J. Starrett]], published on Devil's Eve of 2017. The story follows the asthmatic [[RebelliousSpirit hell-raising tomboy]] Jacqueline Parker and the [[NervousWreck perpetually terrified]] Craigory Greenberg, two [[OddFriendship grossly mismatched]] [[KidHero sixth-grade friends]] who discover that [[TownWithADarkSecret bizarre creatures emerge during the night]] in their hometown. Taking it upon themselves to clear Shadow Creek of its unholy infestation, Jackie and Craig set about creating an arsenal of [[ImprovisedWeapon improvised weaponry]] to slaughter their way through the hordes of [[OurMonstersAreWeird progressively trippier and trippier "abominations"]] as they try to win friends to help in their lone stand against the increasingly oppressive otherworldly onslaught. [[SequelHook Possibly the beginning of a series,]] though Starrett hasn't made anything official yet.

* GreyAndBlackMorality: How the Maraw Sorceresses view Jackie and Craig against Jykunne's Horde, since Jackie and Craig are at least from the same species as they are. [[FantasticRacism It doesn't stop them from referring to Jackie and Craig as "animals," "beasts" or "meat," however.]] Alternately...

* {{Chupacabra}}: The first creature Jackie and Craig encounter.

* ChildrenAreInnocent: Averted. SO HARD.

* UsefulNotes/HighFunctioningAutism: Amy Black, a teenage girl who Craig convinces to join the fight, is described as autistic. Though the book uses UsefulNotes/AspergersSyndrome and High-Functioning Autism interchangeably.

* TotallyRadical: Jackie speaks in a constant stream of stoner/skater slang. YMMV on whether it's immersive or annoying.

* AmbiguouslyJewish: Craig.
* AnimalisticAbomination: The Chupacabras, Mothmen, and Tharrochs.
* AntiRoleModel: Jackie. Also Craig, to a lesser extent.

* TheBully: Travis Bach, though as the book goes on he's revealed to have HiddenDepths.
* ChekhovsGun: [[spoiler:Jackie's Inhaler.]]
* ChildhoodFriendRomance: the titular characters.

* {{Cloudcuckoolander}}: Amy Black.
* CosmicPlaything: Jackie and Craig, both literally and figuratively.

* DeadpanSnarker: The titular characters - Jackie maybe slightly more.

* EldritchAbomination: Jykunne, the 'God' of the monstrosities that have been tormenting Jackie and Craig.
* EvilSorceress: The Maraw: Talon, Screech and Fang.
* TheFairFolk: Called 'Parachildren' here, though Will identifies them as the source of Fairy lore. [[OrganicTechnology Also, biomechanical.]]

* FourTemperamentEnsemble: Craig is Melancholic, Jackie's Choleric, Will is Sanguine and Amy is Phlegmatic.

* HollywoodSatanism: While Satan is never actually referenced, most of the magic in the book resembles either this or HollywoodVoodoo.
* HumanoidAbomination: Stickman, Fleshgaits, the Parachildren, and to some degree Jykunne himself.
* JerkAss: Jackie Parker, to literally everyone. [[AmazonChaser Craig takes it as good-natured ribbing.]]
* LovecraftLite

* MechanicalAbomination: The Parachildren.

* PrettyBoy: It's implied that Jacqueline sees Craig this way. Fang seems to as well.
* RavenHairIvorySkin: Jackie Parker.
* SarcasmBlind: Amy Black, though this is due to the Autism.

* StrangeSyntaxSpeaker: Fang. To a lesser degree, Amy.
* SuperPersistentPredator: Literally everything in the JAC universe.

* TookALevelInBadass: Craig, by the book's third act.

* WorldOfWeirdness