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It's time again for another Weekly Comics Hype. I'm doing these alphabetically, but skipping around a bit, and today I'm going to tell you about a genuinely excellent and unpredictable crime story from Humanoids Publishing, Miss: Better Living Through Crime by Phillipe Thirault, Marc Riou and Mark Vigouroux.



Miss is a beautifully structured, uncompromising and brutal story about a criminal and the former live-in secretary of a PI who was killed on a job who end up working together as hired guns. It's a nasty look at life in Brooklyn in the 1920s, with racism and disease rampant in the streets and not very many policemen working them. The characters are fascinating. Slim is likeable despite the ugliness of his life choices, and Nola's matter-of-fact attitude of taking care of whatever her clients need handling, regardless of the ugly aftermath, leads the pair into some genuinely stunning plot twists.

Humanoids Publishing has been packaging and presenting sci-fi comics from most of Europe's best known artists for more than 25 years. Miss is an unusual departure from the publisher in that it's not a wild, dark science fiction tale, but you can still see some of the hallmarks of stories like The Incal or Metabarons in the way that Thirault, best known for the dark western Thousand Faces tells the tale, and lets the impact of the plot work to develop the characters. The pacing is really interesting, as it jumps from one job to the next and keeps the action moving with real punches.

Humanoids had a brief liaison with DC Comics around the same time 2000 AD did, but DC didn't promote either line with any enthusiasm. Gotham Central writer Ed Brubaker talked up Miss, and provided a brief introduction to this US edition, which was about as much press as either line really received. It certainly deserves more attention than the Humanoids line received, and is an excellent choice for readers tiring of superheroes who want to try something a little more grounded, but darker.

Miss: Better Living Through Crime is available from your local comic shop, who would enjoy your custom; new books ship on Wednesdays, so why not stop in after work?
kayliane:
that was such a nice comment on my set- I was actually a little shy about the preview pic, so I love that you loved it!
xoxo kl
May 15, 2006

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