The Defenseless Dead
Malibu · 1991 · 3 issues
About the series
In this three-issue Malibu series from 1991, writer Larry Niven (co-creator of Ringworld) teams with Bill Spangler and artist Terry Tidwell for a supernatural crime thriller where the dead can no longer rely on the living for justice. The premise follows a world where ghosts are defenseless against those who wronged them, forcing a unique alliance to tip the scales from beyond the grave. Though brief, the series stands as a curious early-’90s fusion of hardboiled mystery and speculative fiction from a legendary science-fiction mind.