Los Monstruos - by James Robinson (Paperback)

Book Synopsis

From the celebrated creator behind Starman comes this new monster-filled mystery noir. Monsters, mobsters, and mystery...all in one city!

It's a city like any other, filled with citizens living and working side-by-side, except...everyone here is a monster! Welcome to LOS MONSTRUOS, a place unlike any other.

The city of Los Monstrous, located on the West Coast of America in the 1950s, is populated solely by monsters of all the kinds you'd find in classic black and white horror movies. They're all just getting on with their lives, working, doing jobs, nothing bad, nothing evil. Well apart from the crooks and gangsters in Los Monstruos's underworld, but every city has those, right?

All cities have private detectives too, and werewolf P.I. Perry Cutter has a simple case that's quickly turning into a king-size headache. Initially hired to find an old man's lost love from among the city's vampire community, Perry quickly finds things spiraling out of control as both vampire and Egyptian mummy criminal gangs get involved. So as Perry looks for answers, he runs a gauntlet of danger, while also uncovering dark secrets about his own past as a cop for the Los Monstruos Police Department.

Can Perry solve the case, put his own history to rest, stay alive, and still make that date he has with the cute vampire waitress he's been courting? It sure going to take all his skill as a detective and his abilities as a werewolf to do it.

The city of Los Monstruos! Come for the sun, stay for the monsters and mystery.

Collects Los Monstros #1-#4.

Review Quotes

"Los Monstruos is James Robinson at his best! It's a hardboiled monster wonderland filled with potential. Can't wait to see where it goes next!"--Jeff Lemire

"Los Monstruos has so many elements I love: Detectives, Noir, and of course... Monsters. Plenty of Monsters. James Robinson and Jesús Merino deliver a surreal tale, but yet grounded in classic themes that feel just right. And K. J. Díaz's colors give it all a surprising pleasant warmth that defies the genres being mashed together here."--J H Williams III (Echolands, Promethea, Batwoman)

About the Author

An Englishman residing in Las Vegas, I am a writer of comic books and graphic novels. And a couple of films. My most noted comics work is Starman for DC Comics, currently being collected in the New York Times best selling series of six Starman Omnibuses. I now work for Marvel Comics, a tenure that began with (now collected) runs on Fantastic Four and All-New Invaders. I am currently writing Scarlet Witch and Squadron Supreme.

In my spare time I tend to waste it.