Cal McDonaldDark Horse. |
1 Criminal Macabre (5-issue mini; w Steve Niles; a Ben Templesmith).
[From Dark Horse Comics: The creative team behind 30 Days of Night
launch a new 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, and werewolves. The best-selling comics series is collected in
this massive graphic novel, including the hard-to-find short from last Halloween's
Drawing on Your Nightmares special issue, and a new cover by Templesmith.]
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2 Last Train to Deadsville (4-issue mini; w Steve Niles; a Kelley Jones). [From Dark Horse Comics: When a demonically possessed teen redneck shows up on his doorstep, detective of the weird Cal McDonald hardly bats an eye. After all, in recent history he's battled a brain-sucking misanthrope, sent a perverted corpse-mangler up the river, and squashed a monster conspiracy to take over the world - all with the help of only his living dead sidekick and an unhealthy appetite for intoxicants. Cal knows that the mulleted mook on his porch isn't anything to worry about. But the sex-crazed succubus the poor, horny kid summoned in a love spell gone wrong - she's a problem. Especially now that she's turned the entire male population of the kid's hometown into a throng of murderous monsters who are willing to do whatever the she-beast desires. As if that wasn't enough to deal with for a day, an even greater evil rears its head when Cal's girlfriend starts hinting at commitment. Demonic possession? That Cal can handle... but a demanding girlfriend? Cal's definitely in over his head this time.] |
3 Supernatural Freak Machine (4-issue mini; w Steve Niles; a Kelley Jones). [From Dark Horse Comics: Escaped mad doctors and possessed muscle cars are all in a day's work for supernatural investigator Cal McDonald and his undead sidekick Mo'Lock. When an old enemy Cal sent to prison escapes, his sights are set on exacting cold revenge on the guy who put him there. And it looks like he'll have to cut through everyone Cal loves to get to him . . . perfect! Cal knows what he's up against, and he's hardly batting an eye. He's already put this guy away once, and it's not like prison makes people bitter, right? And besides-things are looking up. He's even got a new car to brag about-a spiffy 1973 Nova. Too bad the guy who died in the car before Cal bought it has no intention of leaving!] |
4 Two Red Eyes (4-issue mini; w Steve Niles; a Kyle Hotz). [From Dark Horse Comics: Cal McDonald, boozer, druggie, private dick who hangs with dead dudes -- welcome to Rock Bottom. Your only friend in the human world is dead, your girlfriend just dumped you and moved to another city, and the district attorney has a chip on his shoulder the size of a Chevy Nova with your name on it. When that chip turns into a nasty case of police brutality, Cal ends up fighting for his life in the intensive care unit and wakes up days later . . . sober. And what's Cal been missing since he went under? Only the most horrifying convergence of sheer monster power ever to emigrate from the old world. Cal McDonald, meet Nosferatu.] |
5 My Demon Baby (4-issue mini; w Steve Niles; a Nick Stakal). [From Dark Horse Comics: To say that Cal's been through hell and back would be a misstatement. He's been to hell, all right, and he seems to be stuck there for good. When we last checked in on Cal, he and Mo'Lock had just witnessed the vile, horrifying transformation of Cal's lovely ex, Sabrina Lynch, into a minion of the vampire Nosferatu. After that Cal disappeared for a bit, and at the start of our new series, Mo'Lock finds him just in time to lure him off the filthy couch in an abandoned house with an offer he can't refuse -- either he gets up and takes a new case, or Mo'Lock will kill him before the drugs can. And what a case it is. Devil worshippers in sunny SoCal are doing their best to bring Satan into the world, and by the looks of things, Cal's already too late. What does one feed a bouncing baby Beelzebub, anyway?] |