Created by Dann McDorman "Of course there is a detective. There must be a detective."— just in case you were wondering. Cozy? Hard-boiled? Meta-fiction? A sly update on Richard Connell's The Most Dangerous Game? A rip on John Dickson Carr's locked room mysteries? A edible-fueled game of Clue? Postmodernism run amuck? It's hard to tell. … Continue reading Adam McAnnis
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Nels Grant
Created by Charles Spraggett (words) & Adrian Dingle (art) An early, if minor, comic book eye... chez nous! NELS GRANT was a middle-aged Canadian private eye who appeared in Canada's own Triumph Comics back in 1945-46. He lives and works in a generic big city (Toronto?), and seems pretty well-established. Even comfortable. He smokes a … Continue reading Nels Grant
Riv del Rio
Created by Sergio de la Pava "Waking life in Cali, for me, has many dreamlike qualities. So opening may eyes isn't clearly a return to reality from imagination." Put on your waders, if you're going to tackle this one. We're going deep into metafictional waters in the brain-spinning, hallucinatory Every Arc Bends Its Radian (2024). … Continue reading Riv del Rio
Will Profane (Profane)
Created by Peter Milligan (writer) and Raül Fernandez (art) Welcome to the Meta-Verse. Make sure your head's on tight. WILL PROFANE is pretty much your classic, meat-and-potatoes LA private eye. Until, that is, he begins to suspect he's only a fictional character in some other guy's detective books. That's the wacko premise of Propane, a … Continue reading Will Profane (Profane)
Philip M. Noir
Created by Robert Coover "The body has to eat and drink so it can stay healthy long enough to enjoy an agonizing death, and the mind, to help out, has to know where the provisions are and how to get them and who else is after them and how to kill them" Who reads this … Continue reading Philip M. Noir