Stumptown – A Study In Retro Noir
If you missed Stumptown then you might not be blamed for the omission in your reading stack. Hell, even if you got the comic you might have missed the subsequent issues because the four issue debut arc took ten months to complete. The series kicked off plagued with timing issues but in the end the [...]
Crime Comics for One and All (Except Cozy Fans, regrettably)!
If you’re all caught up with the big-name crime comics like Scalped and Criminal, indulge the Nerd of Noir while he slams some more awesome down on your TBR pile. He’s got three recs for you that cover three different subgenres of crime fiction. Yeah, it’s a tall order, but he’s serving it up.
Read more about the Nerd’s crime-comic special after the jump…
Stumptown #1 by Greg Rucka and Matthew Southworth – review
At it’s simplest and most reductive, Stumptown is to the PI genre what Queen and Country is to the spy genre. Rucka is an ardent fan, student of the genre (he wrote a thesis paper in school on the American PI), and longtime creator of PI stories. Plus, he does wonderful things when he’s at Oni Press. The result here is that Stumptown is off to an auspicious start, and if it continues on the trajectory started here, then it could become one of the better crime comic books on the market.
Full review after the jump…
