CLUE: Candlestick #1

Clue: Candlestick #1

by Dash Shaw

All of your favorite suspicious characters are back in this new brain twister based on the timeless detective game. Ripe with puzzles, secrets, and lies, in CANDLESTICK everyone's a suspect! Cartoonist auteur Dash Shaw unleashes his murderous imagination on the quirky, thrilling and mysterious world of Clue!

Genres: Comics, Mystery, Graphic Novels

40 pages, Kindle Edition

Published May 22, 2019

About the author

Dash Shaw is an American cartoonist and animator, currently living in Richmond, Virginia.
Shaw studied Illustration at the School of Visual Arts in Manhattan. He has been publishing short comics and illustrations in a number of anthologies, magazines and zines since his college years. In 2008 Fantagraphics Books published Shaw's first long format graphic novel, the family comedy-drama Bottomless Belly Button. Among his other notable works: BodyWorld (2010, Pantheon Books), New Jobs (2013, Uncivilized Books), New School (2013, Fantagraphics), Blurry (2024, New York Review Comics).
Shaw's animated works include the Sigur Ros video and Sundance selection 'Seraph', the series 'The Unclothed Man in the 35th Century AD' and the movies My Entire High School Sinking into the Sea (2016) and Cryptozoo (2021).

Reviews

[Eve Brown]

Six colorful characters are summoned to a manor by Mr. Boddy, a noted collector of deadly artifacts. We haven't even made it to dessert before folks start getting their just desserts. Who struck down these folks, with what, and where?

As a long time fan of the game and the 1985 movie, I'm enjoying this take on the property. I'm mildly annoyed that both Professor Plum and Mrs. Peacock are purple (Peacock is the blue pawn), but not enough to be taken out of the story. I look forward to seeing how this treatment of the story works out.

[Wayne]

This was really good, with a fun essay at the end about murder as the subject of a fun family game. Looking forward to the rest of the series.

[Carol Tilley]

Probably more of a 4.5 - nearly perfect in its weirdness.

[Katelyn]

This was not my favorite retelling of Clue. I found I had to force myself to finish. Definitely a different twist on the story.

[Ernez]

I kind of hated this. Was weird just to be weird.