Released a week or so back, Chip Zdarsky's Monster Cops . It serves as a perfect Halloween comic for the young and the young-at-heart. Collecting four short stories previously published in various anthologies, the book stars the classic monsters Frankenstein, the Wolfman and Dracula.

Unlike some heroes, this intrepid trio avoids the all-too-worn vigilante route and become fully vested officers of the law. Frankenstein, the stoic but sensitive one. Wolfman, the resident investigative cop due in so small part to his heightened sense. And Dracula, the bad cop.

Newsarama caught up with the cartoonist and creator, Chip Zdarsky, to talk about the book: