Count Crowley: Reluctant Midnight Monster Hunter

by David Dastmalchian, Lukas Ketner (Illustrator)

Overview

Lock your doors and gather close . . . if you dare! Once a rising TV journalist, Jerri Bartman has returned to her small Midwest hometown station. Demoted to hosting the nightly Creature Feature, Jerri's professional humiliation is eclipsed by the discovery that her new job comes with a secret, supernatural duty.

Her missing predecessor, Count Crowley, was one of the last "Appointed" hunters of monsters. Yes. Monsters. They're real and they're hell bent on controlling the news and information consumed by humans. Everything we've ever been taught about monsters is a lie and Jerri's only possible advisor is a senile male chauvinist. It's 1983 and the outlook for humanity is getting . . . gnarly and their only hope is an alcoholic, acerbic horror host from Missouri.

David Dastmalchian's authorial comics debut with artist Lukas Ketner—this terrifying trade collects issues #1-#4 of the Dark Horse Comics series Count Crowley: Reluctant Midnight Monster Hunter!

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781506713472
Publisher:	Dark Horse Comics
Publication date:	06/09/2020
Pages:	104
Sales rank:	385,179
Product dimensions:	6.60(w) x 10.10(h) x 0.40(d)

About the Author

David Dastmalchian is originally from Kansas. He moved to Chicago, IL, to study acting at The Theatre School, DePaul University. After college, David worked as a professional fisherman in Alaska, a circus performer, movie theatre usher and playwright. He is an ensemble member of Shattered Globe Theatre Company and Caffeine Theatre in Chicago.

Editorial Reviews

06/26/2020

After transforming puff piece into debacle by uncovering small-town chicanery live on air, tipsy Jerri Bartman is fired as a TV reporter by her own brother Ben. Reeling from previously losing a big journalistic break, her drinking has finally left her at rock bottom. Ben offers her the only job she could do on air since angering sponsors: anonymously becoming the heavily made-up host for the Count Crowley Show, since the previous Count disappeared. Desperate to make rent for a few more weeks, Jerri agrees, and her sarcastic, alcohol-fueled comments about the film she hosts create an unexpected hit. After leaving the show that night, however, she is attacked by a monster. The unbelievable truth is that Count Crowley battled supernatural menaces in his off-hours, and she has inadvertently inherited his reputation. Can Jerri sober up enough to figure out how to stop a reanimated corpse trying its level best to kill her? VERDICT Actor—turned—comics scribe Dastmalchian and dynamite artist Ketner (Witch Doctor. Vol. 1) join forces to create a superior horror comedy adventure with genuine dramatic tension that revels in its own rich graveyard walk as much as it celebrates the midnight tradition of the television horror host. [Previewed in Douglas Rednour's "Picture This," LJ 6/20.]—Douglas Rednour, Georgia State Univ. Libs., Atlanta

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