When Jess has sex for the first time, she gains the power to recognize monsters -- including the boy who took her cherry. Her mom wants Jess to go to college on her hockey scholarship but her dad wants her to join the family business (monster slaying). And Jess, well Jess really just wants to have sex again, and if the guy happens to be a monster, so what? Until her monster-bashing father stops interfering, however, sexting with the monster bf will have to do.
The monsters are from another dimension. They sinergize humans, which apparently means consuming their energy. That isn't nearly as much fun as sex, at least for the humans. The monsters have a plan to open a dimensional gate and create a superhighway to their own dimension, turning the Earth into a sinergy drive-through for monsters.
I guess all of that is a reasonably coherent plot, despite the absence of any attempt to explain why ginger-haired "seers" can see monsters and why they need to pop their cherries to gain that ability. The monsters wonder why humans are so frail but the monsters seem to be ridiculously easy to kill (a common failing of graphic novel monsters). I mean, if a skinny teenage girl with a hockey stick can do it, they really can't be taken seriously as monsters. Her father, at least, looks like a WWF reject who might be capable of taking out monsters, provided he has an axe. Why none of the half dozen monster slayers here carries a gun also goes unexplained. I guess it's more fun to kill monsters with hockey sticks and axes. Another unanswered question, and perhaps the most important, is why do monsters all talk like high school kids from San Fernando Valley?
I can't say I cared much about Jess or her predicament. The writer makes an effort to engage the reader with the characters but fails to provoke a genuine emotional response other than an occasional giggle.
The art is sort of an interesting style although I'm not sure it is well suited to a monster story. The bright and bold coloring is nice. On the whole, I probably wouldn't recommend Sinergy to anyone but it isn't so bad that I would trash it.
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