Starting November 4th, issue one of the four-part series Calavera P.I. comes to comic bookstores from Oni Press. Cartoonist and writer Marco Finnegan follows a resurrected private investigator, stuck between his death and the crimes of the living. It’s a combination of Chicano history and the classic Los Angeles noir story.
Here’s the description:
In 1925, Juan Calavera died a hero. After a career spent outside the law defending the Chicano barrios where the police refused to operate, he earned a reputation for fearlessness . . . and a gunshot in the stomach. Now, five years later, on Dia de los Muertos, his restless spirit has been summoned from the grave to help a desperate former colleague unravel a kidnapping all too close to home. With only days to solve the case before he is called back to the underworld, can Calavera reveal the identity of the masked human trafficker known as La Fantasma before tragedy strikes again . . . and solve the mystery of his own murder in the process?
