The Detective: Chronicles of Max Faccioni

    (Caliber, 1998)
™ and ©1998 Goff

What’s most fascinating about this novel is not really the stories themselves, but the framing sequence. Max Faccioni appears to be a typical hardboiled detective in the mold of Sam Spade. His clients are a bit more colorful than most, but include the standard damsels in distress, shady mob types, and boxers who are being forced to take a dive. Zombies and hints of black magic spice things up in the second story of issue #1. Still, there’s nothing here that hasn’t been seen numerous times before in old detective fiction.

What artist/writer Cindy Goff does, which is truly inventive, is to cast a framing story of a newspaperman in the 1980s first finding what appears to be Max’s body, then being approached by a gunman looking for research on Faccioni. Both incidents are used as a launching pad for telling the stories of Max’s illustrious past.
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