Deer Editor
(W) Ryan K Lindsay (A) Sami Kivelä (C) Lauren Affe
(L) Jim Campbell
A John Doe slaying lures a journalist into a world of political intrigue, a wi-fi-enabled grotto, and a station locker full of secrets. For Bucky, an editor of the crime beat at “The Truth,” it’s all in a day’s work… but he also happens to be a deer.
Will he chase down his last story in this antler noir series? Deer Editor is perfect for fans of Blacksad and Chinatown.
Deer Editor #3
(W) Ryan K Lindsay (A) Sami Kivelä (C) Lauren Affe (L) Jim Campbell
Bucky chases a new headline while attempting to settle a score with an old nemesis. With backyard fisticuffs, a rescue mission road trip, and a little voyeuristic murder of the things that go bump in the night, it’s just the story he was looking for.
BUCK-le up for the exciting conclusion of our favorite anthropomorphic editor’s story! Deer Editor is perfect for fans of Blacksad and Chinatown.
A John Doe slaying lures a journalist into a world of political intrigue, a wi-fi-enabled grotto, and a station locker full of secrets. For Bucky, an editor of the crime beat at “”The Truth,”” it’s all in a day’s work …but he also happens to be a deer. Deer Editor #1 plays it straight with a story that feels like a solid journalist on the case story.
Story: Ryan K. Lindsay
Art: Sami Kivelä
Color: Lauren Affe
Letterer: Jim Campbell
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Deer Editor #2
(W) Ryan Lindsay (A) Sami Kivela
(C) Lauren Affe (L) Jim Campbell
Stop the presses! With Bucky in a bad position, Dan, his sub-editor, picks up the story threads as he tries to discover the true rot deep within Sheltered Cove. What the pair find is beyond politics and money. The trouble brewing is centuries old, horrific, and very thirsty for blood.
Deer Editor #1
(W) Ryan K Lindsay (A) Sami Kivelä (C) Lauren Affe
(L) Jim Campbell
A John Doe slaying lures a journalist into a world of political intrigue, a wi-fi-enabled grotto, and a station locker full of secrets. For Bucky, an editor of the crime beat at “The Truth,” it’s all in a day’s work…
…but he also happens to be a deer.
Will he chase down his last story in this antler noir series? Deer Editor is perfect for fans of Blacksad and Chinatown.
A John Doe slaying lures a journalist into a world of political intrigue, a wi-fi-enabled grotto, and a station locker full of secrets. For Bucky, an editor of the crime beat at “”The Truth,”” it’s all in a day’s work …but he also happens to be a deer. Deer Editor #1 plays it straight with a story that feels like a solid journalist on the case story.
Written by Ryan K. Lindsay, Deer Editor #1 might seem like a silly concept. It’s a reporter investigating a death and getting dragged into political corruption but the reporter also happens to be a deer. It feels like an SNL skit that goes a bit too long. But, the comic works because Lindsay plays it straight. Bucky is a reporter who just happens to be a deer. The jokes are kept to a minimum. “Deer abilities” are also kept to a minimum. Make Bucky human and so far there’d be little difference in the story.
And there’s something in that playing it straight. Lindsay’s pacing of the comic, the rather serious tone of things, Deer Editor #1 feels like it has a lot to thank in Fletch, the film that saw Chevy Chase playing a reporter dragged into a story about corruption. That too you’d think was a comedy but the original also was serious and kept things pretty dialed back as far as the comedy. It was present but it was mainly a story about a reporter who gets tied into a story that spirals, just like Deer Editor #1.
The art by Sami Kivelä helps with it all. With blues, blacks, and whites by colorist Lauren Affe, and lettering by Jim Campbell, the visuals feel like a detective story more than anything else. It just so happens Bucky is a deer, the visuals really don’t emphasize that a whole lot. And that, plus the dialogue, makes what seems like a bizarre concept totally normal.
Deer Editor #1 might seem like a silly concept, but it focuses on its core genre, hitting the beats you’d expect for good and bad. It’s a crime comic that just so happens to have a deer as the main character. It’s also well worth checking for those fans of the crime genre.
Story: Ryan K. Lindsay Art: Sami Kivelä
Color: Lauren Affe Letterer: Jim Campbell
Story: 8.0 Art: 8.0 Overall: 8.0 Recommendation: Buy
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Deer Editor #1
(W) Ryan K Lindsay (A) Sami Kivelä (C) Lauren Affe
(L) Jim Campbell
A John Doe slaying lures a journalist into a world of political intrigue, a wi-fi-enabled grotto, and a station locker full of secrets. For Bucky, an editor of the crime beat at “The Truth,” it’s all in a day’s work…
…but he also happens to be a deer.
Will he chase down his last story in this antler noir series? Deer Editor is perfect for fans of Blacksad and Chinatown.
Buck around and find out!
Announcing Deer Editor, the forthcoming Mad Cave Studios series from Aurealis and Ledger Award winning writer Ryan K. Lindsay with art by Sami Kivelä, colors by Lauren Affe, and lettered by Jim Campbell. Much like an antler slowly twists and grows into something with many paths and points, this anthropomorphic noir is enough to make mystery lovers go buck wild.
A John Doe slaying lures a journalist into a world of political intrigue, a wi-fi-enabled grotto, and a station locker full of secrets. For Bucky, an editor of the crime beat at “The Truth,” it’s all in a day’s work… but he also happens to be a deer.
Will he chase down his last story in this antler noir series?
Perfect for fans of Blacksad and Chinatown—don’t be left on the side of the road. Deer Editor #1 hits shelves Jan. 10, 2024,
When it comes to crime noir fiction, the private eye or the rogue detective usually gets the spotlight. As most of these stories starts with a crime and follows from there, most of the time there are twists. One of my favorite twists is when the same person who is investigating a crime gets framed for the same crime. These twists are what makes this genre so delicious to most readers, as they are usually situations that most people would try to avoid.
Sometimes in these stories, the protagonist usually has someone who helps them, sometimes a secretary, a friend, or a news reporter. This is even more prevalent in when crime noir gets done in comics. The most memorable one being Ben Urich from Daredevil. In Ryan K Lindsay and Sami Kivela’s seedy Deer Editor, we find one such protagonist.
We meet Bucky, a hard-nosed investigative journalist, who just so happens to be an anthropomorphic deer who gets called to the morgue about the body of a John Doe, one with some serious implications. The clues lead him to another dead body, this one with even more and with Buck finding out who the assailants are. As he gets closer to the truth, he uses his vast network of contacts to find out the main question “why?” By issue’s end, Bucky gets played as a major plot involving the mayor of the city is at the center.
Overall, a story as hardboiled as any of Patricia Cornwell’s books. The story by Lindsay, is dark, gritty and leaves readers spinning. The art by Kivela, is visceral and true to life. Altogether, a comic which will have readers looking for their copy of Brick, this comic is just as good.
Story: Ryan K Lindsay Art: Sami Kivela
Story: 10 Art: 9.0 Overall: 9.5 Recommendation: Buy
