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Luke Cage meets noir meets The Diviners meets more please!

Abbott by Saladin Ahmed, Sami Kivelä

March 13, 2019 by cosbrarian Leave a Comment

Abbott is a brief, five-issue series set in 1970s Detroit about journalist Elena Abbott, lone black female reporter at the Detroit Daily. Abbott prefers to delve into the stories the paper’s board would rather not see printed. She’s recently getting heat for her piece on the death of a black teen at the hands of police, but so far she’s been protected by her loyal boss. She has a new case on the horizon and it’s a grisly one.  A mutilated police horse is found […]

Filed Under: Graphic Novels/Comic Books, Horror, Speculative Fiction, Suspense Tagged With: 1970s, Black History, comic book, Comics, detroit, horror, Intersectionality, journalism, mystery, Noir, paranormal, Racism, Saladin Ahmed, Sami Kivelä, supernatural

cosbrarian's CBR11 Review No:19 · Genres: Graphic Novels/Comic Books, Horror, Speculative Fiction, Suspense · Tags: 1970s, Black History, comic book, Comics, detroit, horror, Intersectionality, journalism, mystery, Noir, paranormal, Racism, Saladin Ahmed, Sami Kivelä, supernatural ·
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