Oni Press recently unveiled an ambitious slate of graphic novel releases for 2025 , but that doesn't mean there isn't anything new to look forward to in late 2024. Oni will close out the year by kicking off a promising new Chicano noir series called Calavera P.I.
IGN can exclusively reveal a first look at Calavera P.I. #1.
Check it out in the slideshow gallery below: Calavera P.I. is a four-issue limited series written and illustrated by Marco Finnegan (Morning Star), with variant covers by Ramón K Pérez, Esteban Sanchez, and J.
Gonzo. Here's Oni's official description for the new series: 1925. Hollywoodland.
Juan Calavera is a private investigator whose undercover and daring escapades have made a name for himself in Tinseltown, especially among the Mexican communities, who have begun to see him as a hero. Which is why the young, aspiring newspaper reporter Maria Valdez has been following him around, getting the inside scoop as Calavera busts human trafficking rings and drinks into the early morning, until one fateful day he is visited by a mysterious and cloaked figure known only as . .
. La Fantasma. Inspired by Mexican folklore and his love of detective stories, Marco Finnegan (Morning Star, 007, The Keeper) blends supernatural intrigue with pulp thrills in the four-issue Chicano noir Calavera.
"Calavera came about for two reasons," Finnegan tells IGN. "One: I love film noir/pulp novels and comic strips from the 1930s-50s. Those set in LA I love even more.
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