Noir - Softcover

Azzarello, Brian; Brubaker, Ed; Campi, Alex De; Others

3.29

875 ratings by Goodreads

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1595823581 ISBN 13: 9781595823588

Publisher: Dark Horse, 2009

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The biggest names in comics crime fiction assemble for an anthology of original tales of murder and deceit, presented in glorious black and white! Comics luminaries Brian Azzarello (100 Bullets), Ed Brubaker (Criminal, Sleeper), David Lapham (Stray Bullets), Rick Geary (Treasury of Victorian Murder), Chris Offutt (HBO's True Blood), and Paul Grist (Kane) show why they're masters of the genre, while newer talents like Jeff Lemire (Essex County Trilogy), M. K. Perker (Cairo, Air), and Alex de Campi (Smoke) reveal their surprising dark sides. Aided and abetted by some of the most gifted slatherers of thick, black India ink in the field, such as Sean Phillips (Criminal), Eduardo Barreto (Cobb), Dean Motter (Mister X), and more, this gang is headed straight for the bad parts of town, and you're invited along for the ride!

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Mu�oz and Sampayo’s gloriously depressing stories about NYC cop turned PI Alack Sinner quashed doubts that black-and-white comics were ideal for noir crime fiction as far back as the 1970s. If you don’t know the Argentine masters’ work, be convinced by this baker’s-dozen stories by best-in-the-business hands ranging from veteran true-crime specialist Rick Geary (A Treasury of Victorian Murder) to ace newcomer Jeff Lemire (Essex County). Turned tables are the order of the day, every piece ending with an about-face, though far from all the switcheroos can be seen coming—so no peeking ahead! Often the most sympathetic character comes out all right, and when it’s the farmer facing foreclosure in Lemire’s contribution or the underemployed Turkish immigrant in M. K. Perker’s, that’s OK. When SOBs receive sweet justice in David Lapham’s, Paul Grist’s, and Phillips and Barretto’s entries, it’s better. But when nothing is really resolved (Dean Motter’s Mister X vignette), the turnabout turns around (Offutt and Kano/Gaudiano’s The Last Hit), and something enormous is inadvertently started (Azzarello, Moon, and Ba’s The Bad Night), it’s sublime. --Ray Olson

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