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CLUE #1

This new series from writer Paul Allor and artist Nelson Daniel is a murder mystery to keep us guessing.  But why guess when we can follow the clues?  I’m pretty sure this is an all-too-legit murder mystery story where we can get enough information to solve it ourselves.  This might be the new story I’ll chart on some corkboard next to my Twin Peaks theories and Riverdale season 2 predictions while I wait for them to come back.  

If, like me, you’ve enjoyed the Parker Brothers’ classic game of whodunit, Clue, or the film starring Tim Curry and Madeleine Kahn of the same name, then you’ve wanted to see how this series was going to turn out.  As opening issues go it’s a whirlwind of intrigue and….MURDER.  It sets a tone of heavy handed mystery drama against a more easy-going design style.  Together Allor and Daniel create a very magnetic hold.

Like Clue the board game, Clue the comic series is rife with bloody murder starting with a classic dinner scene introducing our colorful cast of suspects—er uh, guests.  They are guests because nobody has died.  Did I say “died?” I meant “killed.”  

Because of course somebody, one of the guests we are introduced to, kills the host. The host, Mr. A. Boddy, gets plugged right in the chest.

Two detectives are called in to investigate the brutal slaying on this dreary night, and just when they think they have the suspect, a few new twists come up to really make this a head scratcher of a conundrum.

If we put our heads together I bet we can solve it.

Matthew Burbridge is a Digital Editor at ComiXology and he’s been really considering using this space at the end of his reviews to write a short novel and see if someone will notice/tell him to stop.  No time like the present, eh?

1:  Lawrence had been working the docks for a few years.