Cal
is a bit on edge, what with the monster war going on. He’s also not feeling
well, and it turns out that the ghouls have started dying of, well, natural
causes. Luckily (or not, depending on your point of view), he gets distracted
from that problem by another, slightly more violent problem: Frankenstein’s
monster tearing up a library. Cal
offers to help, which almost always gets him into trouble.
Cal
is one of those characters who you wish would get a break every now and then,
but you know he wouldn’t be as great if he did. His sense of the right thing to
do is a delightful balance to his appallingly bad attitude. And oh, the snark.
It could almost have a book of its own (I want credit if you use that, Steve).
This story is no exception; Cal
gets more and nastier problems to deal with at every turn, and he slogs through
all of it, prioritizing the best he can.
In Cal, Niles gives us the snarky, intolerable
warrior/savior of the horror genre. He works hard, and he usually does the
right thing. Even though he gets the crap beat out of him in the process. This
is great stuff.
~Mike ( @MikeyGeek )
