A self-described "old fashioned copper", the belligerent DI Maveryk has a low tolerance for anything strange or supernatural, and yet is always being drawn into the adventures of Jack Staff and Q. He tries to dogmatically solve crimes by old-fashioned means (often by shouting) and in one case deliberately destroyed evidence showing Jack Staff was framed in order to "keep things simple" and go with a gut instinct. He heavily dislikes Helen Morgan, who represents everything he dislikes. Maveryk's current partner, Nolan is a more laid-back character with an interest in comics and fantasy fiction. When he was a small child, he was recruited by the Druid and a gang of dream beings - Mister Balloons, Dish and Spoon, and Goldie (a goldfish) - to help liberate the Land of Nod from the bogeyman Jim Bones, using his small size and speed to "zip" into Nod's castle and wake him. Zipper and his gang went on to have many adventures throughout his childhood. Flashbacks in #10-11 (Vol.2) have shown he had an abusive father. He accidentally wandered into Q's arsenal in #6 (Vol.2); Paul Grist has hinted that this is a sign that something is unusual about Nolan . This would be shown when Zipper Nolan's imaginary pals returned in #14, this time manifesting in reality to assist him. Only he can see them. In #20, Mister Balloons manifested to help him, and later vanished when Nolan wouldn't let him use a gun; this time, the psychic villain Head Master saw them. When Head Master invaded Nolan's mind to steal this power, he was reduced to a gibbering, terrified wreck by something horrible within Nolan's mind. Rag-and-bone men by day and dubiously competent vampire hunters by night, they have repeatedly run into Becky Burdock in their fight against the undead. Albert Bramble first encountered vampires during the Castletown Blitz when he was ten years old; after being rescued from a bomb site by Sgt. States, he discovered his mother was dead from unknown means. Trying to find out what happened, he witnessed the battle between Templar Richards and the Freedom Fighters and saved Jack Staff's life. Now a crotchety old man, he has raised his son Harold to also hunt vampires - "the family trade". Harold would prefer to have a normal life and clashes with his father over the business, especially over their finances; it is a sore point that their daily trade which funds vampire hunting is rag-and-bone men, "the only job that pays "less" than vampire hunting".