This Originally Ran as part of a Top Ten Tuesday Column
Top
Ten Monster Comics
Criminal
Macabre by Steve Niles
Published
by Dark Horse Comics
Steve
Niles seems to have a love/hate relationship with monsters. He
obviously loves them because so much of his work features horrific
creatures doing horrific things in a horrific manner to people who
are just plain horrified that these things are happening to them
(horrificly). But he also seems to hate monsters, because he always
finds a way for his heroes to kick their asses.
And
nobody kicks monster ass quite like Cal MacDonald, the star of Niles'
horror comic series Criminal
Macabre. Cal has
kicked the asses
of all kinds of zombies,
vampires, possessed muscle cars, mad scientists, werewolves,
demons, freaks, and misshapen nightmares while he drinks, smokes,
pops, shoots, and gobbles all sorts of psychoactive substances in an
attempt to either numb his brain or put him in the proper head space
to deal with endless hordes of monster asses that still need kicking.
And
that's the great thing about Criminal
Macabre.
When a particular type of monster starts to lose some of its
creepiness and fear inducing power, BAM,
Niles throws some new vicious creature at your face guaranteed to
make you consider, however briefly, either throwing the book across
the room while jumping up on the couch making an EEEK
noise, or clawing your own eyes out with your freshly gnawed on from
stress fingernails.
You
want Monster Comics? Niles has got you covered.
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