Criminal Macabre
English
377 pages
Omnibus 1
Criminal Macabre Omnibus Volume 1
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In 2003 Steve Niles, creator of the 30 Days of Night comics 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!
* I literally screamed HOLY $#@% when I put this book down. It is that good... Cal McDonald is truly one of the coolest characters in comics." –Ain't It Cool News"
363 pages
Omnibus 2
Criminal Macabre Omnibus Volume 2
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Cal McDonald, the pillpopping, alcoholic antihero of the hit Criminal Macabre series, is back! Teamed with his undead partner Mo'Lock, Cal protects the sininfested streets of Los Angeles against a growing horde of zombies, vampires, and occultists!
This edition collects Criminal Macabre Volumes 46, the oneshot story Feat of Clay, "The Creepy Tree" and "The Trouble with Brains" from MySpace Dark Horse Presents, and "Hairball" from Dark Horse Presents #102-#105, featured in color for the first time!
* From the creator of 30 Days of Night.
"I literally screamed HOLY $#@% when I put this book down. It is that good... Cal McDonald is truly one of the coolest characters in comics."Ain't it Cool News
369 pages
Omnibus 3
Criminal Macabre Omnibus Volume 3
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Teamed with his undead partner Mo'Lock and some unlikely allies, the pill-popping, alcoholic antihero Cal McDonald protects the streets of Los Angeles against an infestation of vampires, werewolves, and one very powerful occultist. The events will leave Cal changed . . . forever. Includes the epic crossover with Niles's other horror hit, 30 Days of Night!
Collects Criminal Macabre: No Peace for Dead Men, Final Night--The 30 Days of Night Crossover, The Eyes of Frankenstein, and The Iron Spirit.
95 pages
Volume 1
Criminal Macabre: The Big Bleed Out
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Supernatural detective Cal McDonald, found wandering the streets as a disheveled vagrant, is ripped from his self-imposed retirement to resume his monster-killing career. But Cal is reluctant to return to the fray. What has the hard-bitten investigator so shaken? It's a long story that begins with a beautiful woman who happens to be a vampire . . . and ends with a bang. Collects the four-issue miniseries. ''Niles [is] one of the greatest 'monster comic' writers of the last decade.''–Bloody Disgusting
544 pages
Volume 2
Criminal Macabre: The Cal McDonald Casebook Volume 1
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In the dark and gritty town of Los Angeles, one man stands between humans and... everything else. Cal McDonald, private detective with scotch for blood, investigates the cases that no one else will. Mummies—shedemons, frankenstein creations, and possessed cars. Collects Criminal Macabre: A Cal McDonald Mystery #1-#5, "A Letter from B.S." from the Dark Horse comic Drawing on Your Nightmares, Love Me Tenderloin, Last Train to Deadsville #1-#4, Criminal Macabre: Supernatural Freak Machine #1-#5, Hairball, and the prose Savage Membrane.
* From the creator of 30 Days of Night.
146 pages
Volume 3
Criminal Macabre: No Peace for Dead Men
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An ex-girlfriend-turned-vampire has been plotting Cal's demise since she was first bitten. But Cal's not done yet, and rises from the grave! Collects Die, Die, My Darling!, No Peace for Dead Men, They Fight by Night, Criminal Macabre/The Goon: When Freaks Collide, and "Call me Monster".
* Featuring the crossover with Eric Powell's The Goon!
121 pages
Volume 4
Criminal Macabre: Final Night: The 30 Days of Night Crossover
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Cal McDonald only wanted a beer; but what he got was a jaded federal agent and a story about vampires up in Barrow; Alaska. There's a new vamp in LA; and he's hell bent on bringing mankind to its knees. Collects Criminal Macabre: Final Night—The 30 Days of Night Crossover #1-#4.
EPIC CROSSOVER!
* Features the death of a major character!
113 pages
Graphic Novel 1
Criminal Macabre: The Eyes of Frankenstein
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With ghouls dying all around him and the mystery of his own violent illness racking his body and mind, occult detective Cal McDonald takes on a new case from an old friend--Frankenstein's monster. To solve the case, Cal seeks help from a man billed as "the world's foremost authority on the supernatural." Cal must trust this wealthy entertainer to save his friends and cure his illness. But that trust leads down a dangerous path that will leave Cal changed forever. Steve Niles, the original creator of the comics series that spawned the film 30 Days of Night, returns with another of his ongoing series, Criminal Macabre, and the psychic detective, Cal McDonald.
106 pages
Graphic Novel 2
Criminal Macabre: The Third Child
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Cal McDonald's changed . . . and maybe not for the better. Locked away and numbing himself with booze and aspirin, the undead Cal feels the evil consuming him. Will he be able to withstand its pull or will he become the monster war's greatest weapon of destruction?
75 pages
Graphic Novel 3
Criminal Macabre: Spirit of the Demon
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An original Cal McDonald horror story as a fully self-contained graphic novel edition by Steve Niles (30 Days of Night)! Supernatural detective Cal McDonald is ripped again from his self-imposed retirement to resume his monster-killing career after hunting down a serial-killing priest with a blood-draining knife on a trail leading him directly to the gates of Hell! A new original graphic novel!
