'Rock You Like A Werewolf?' in Bloodrayne: Lycan Rex, by Troy Wall (writer), Mark A. Robinson (penciler), Stacie Ponder (inker), Raph Hedon/Makma (colorist), Ed Dukeshire (letterer)
The first few years on this blog, the majority of comics I bought that weren't from Marvel or DC were ones based on the Bloodrayne video games. I liked the games, and the advantage of her having been alive since World War I meant there's a wide variety of times and locales you can use for stories with her (one of the same things Atomic Robo uses to good effect).
The comics varied between one-shots, 3-issue mini-series, and a couple of 2-issue anthologies. For example, Lycan Rex was a one-shot about Rayne traveling to Russia to save a village from a king werewolf, and figuring out things weren't as they appeared, and that the Brimstone Society, the secretive organization she worked with, was partially to blame.
A lot of the stories ran in that vein, and there was ultimately an overarching plotline where corrupt elements within the Society released their ancient foes and endangered the entire world. Unfortunately, the comics stopped coming out before that story was concluded.
Quality on the stories was variable, as the creative teams were different in almost each issue (it was a short story in one of the anthologies where I first encountered future Harley Quinn artist Chad Hardin's). Some times they seemed to be setting up elements that didn't get paid off in their story or subsequent ones (I never did figure out what was the deal behind Rayne's "Dark Rayne" transformation).
But overall, there was that sense that a particular story could go in any direction. Time traveler tries to kill her in San Francisco, stealing nunchuks that open a portal to release a demon, taking a blimp ride. . . on the Hindenburg.
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