Pete DeCourcy would have made a pretty good drug dealer. A year or two ago, it was Christmas time, I was in The Blue Beetle and I was looking for something new to try out. “Have you read Criminal yet?” “Well…no…” Pete looked at me like one looks at a sad...

The first crime novel I can recall reading as a mature reader was Andrew Vachss’s novel Sacrifice. It was one of the Burke books, following a mysterious and quiet possibly dangerous fellow on a quest to bring back a kidnapped child that was being sexually tortured and possibly being...

Warren Ellis once said, sometime, somewhere long ago that, “the idea of superheroes dominating comic books was as ludicrous as all novels only being written about nurses.” What he means is that we have in ‘sequential art’ is a intelligent and groundbreaking medium that can tell...