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Criminal Macabre Omnibus, Volume 1: The Cal McDonald Mysteries (Criminal Macabre: A Cal McDonald Mystery #1-3)
In 2003 Steve Niles, creator of the 30 Days of Night comic series, launched a series of occult detective stories featuring the monstrously hard-boiled Cal McDonald. A pill-popping alcoholic reprobate, Cal is the only line of defense between Los Angeles and a growing horde of zombies, vampires, possessed muscle cars, mad scientists, werewolves, and much more weirdness! This...more
Paperback, 392 pages
Published
August 23rd 2011
by Dark Horse Comics
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Dec 22, 2012
Stephanie Griffin
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people who like monsters-who-used-to-be-human noir stories!
Dark Horse Digital Comics had a Criminal Macabre bundle (issues #1-5) on sale and it sounded like the perfect story; a strung-out ex-cop fights ex-humans in the sewers underneath Los Angeles. I loved it! This first story arc is a great beginning that introduces the world of Cal McDonald. I’m sure I’ll like the following stories as well. The Volume 1 Omnibus only has issues #1-3, but this review also covers Issues #4 and #5 which appear in Volume 2.
Personally, I usually feel like I could scream i...more
Personally, I usually feel like I could scream i...more
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I’ve always liked graphic novels, you get the beauty of the art work and a kick ass story. So I was thrilled to get an ARC of the Criminal Macabre Omnibus from Netgalley and I absolutely loved it! I haven’t read a lot of this type of graphic novel and I am not sure about the terminology I should use so please bear with me. I think this qualifies as Noir or Pulp. Since graphic novels are really the marrying of art and fiction, I will address each part separ...more
I’ve always liked graphic novels, you get the beauty of the art work and a kick ass story. So I was thrilled to get an ARC of the Criminal Macabre Omnibus from Netgalley and I absolutely loved it! I haven’t read a lot of this type of graphic novel and I am not sure about the terminology I should use so please bear with me. I think this qualifies as Noir or Pulp. Since graphic novels are really the marrying of art and fiction, I will address each part separ...more
I remember reading one of the Criminal Macabre short stories somewhere and loving it. I've forgotten where and when, unfortunately. The comic series doesn't have nearly the same magic to it. The art is solid, the premises are solid, but the whole thing just seems so...mediocre. (In fact, this is how I feel about almost all of Steve Niles work...promising, but never delivering.)
Anyway, the first story (Criminal Macabre) is alright. The art from Ben Templesmith is up to (or down to) his usual par....more
Anyway, the first story (Criminal Macabre) is alright. The art from Ben Templesmith is up to (or down to) his usual par....more
Half of this omnibus is great supernatural noir... the other half is barely readable. It's strange, but when Niles is writing and Templesmith is doing the art the stories seemed eerie, menacing, and sardonically dark. When Jones is doing the art, however, it gets cartoon-ish (the art AND the writing) and cliched. I'm not sure if Niles was attempting to write to the artist's styles, but going forward he should only write Cal MacDonald stories if Ben Templesmith is doing the art.
Fantastic little collection. A good way to jump feet first into the pain in the a$$ that is Cal McDonald's life.
I wasn't sure I'd like this story, but found it was a very fun, and funny, read. Recommended.
Meh. Not the best stuff from Dark Horse.
Full review on HorrorTalk.com: http://bit.ly/pxwKWf
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STEVE NILES is one of the writers responsible for bringing horror comics back to prominence, and was recently named by Fangoria magazine as one of it's "13 rising talents who promise to keep us terrified for the next 25 years."
Niles is currently working for the four top American comic publishers - Marvel, DC, Image and Dark Horse. He got his start in the industry when he formed his own publishing...more
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Niles is currently working for the four top American comic publishers - Marvel, DC, Image and Dark Horse. He got his start in the industry when he formed his own publishing...more
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