Tag: Calavera P.I.

Can’t Wait for Wednesday | ‘G.I. Joe’ brings its battle against Cobra to the Energon Universe

Check out new comics and graphic novels arriving in stores this week by Joshua Williamson, Tom Reilly, Brandon Thomas, Fico Ossio, Joe Kelly, Ed McGuinness, Melissa Flores, Michael Yg, Ryan North, Derek Charm, Tom Siddell, Alyssa Wong and more.

Welcome to Can’t Wait for Wednesday, your guide to what comics are arriving in comic book stores, bookstores and on digital. I don’t have much to say this week, so let’s get to it!

I’ve pulled out some of the other highlights for this week below, but for the complete list of everything you might find at your local comic shop and on digital this week, you’ll want to check out one or more of the following:

As a reminder, things can change and what you find on the above lists may differ from what’s actually arriving in your local shop. So always check with your comics retailer for the final word on availability.

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Marco Finnegan brings ‘Calavera, P.I.’ back to life at Oni Press

The four-issue miniseries about an undead private investigator kicks off in November.

A folk hero returns from the dead to solve a kidnapping in Calavera, P.I, a four-issue miniseries coming from Oni Press later this year. Marco Finnegan writes and draws the story of Juan Calavera, a private investigator who defended the Chicano barrios in Los Angeles until he was murdered — but on Dia de los Muertos, he returns to continue his mission.

“Calavera, P.I. came about for two reasons,” Finnegan said. ”One, I love film noir/pulp novels and comic strips from the 1930s and ’50s. Those set in L.A. I love even more. There’s something about seeing the underside of a town you’re familiar with reflected back at you in black and white or written about in newsprint.

“The second reason is that as I learned more about the history of Chicanos in Los Angeles, the more it nagged at me how none of this history was reflected in those noirs I loved. Occasionally [Raymond] Chandler would have a Mexican driver give Marlowe some hot tip, or the Continental Op would chase a Latino hood in a [Dashiell] Hammett novel, but for the most part, we were erased. So I thought, if I lived during the thirties, what kind of hero would I want to represent me? Thus: Calavera, P.I.“

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