In this episode, Crimewave!, our series on gritty crime comics, rolls on with Death Chases Me, the first volume of the James Ellroy-meets-H.P. Lovecraft occult noir Fatale, written and drawn by Ed Brubaker and Sean Phillips, published by Image Comics!

In 1950s San Francisco, reporter Dominic Henry Raines meets with the mysterious and attractive Josephine, girlfriend of corrupt police detective Walt Booker. As Raines investigates Booker, he falls under Josephine's spell, unaware that there's more to his feelings for her than puppy love. And a dying Booker, investigating a series of occult murders, makes a deal with the devil. Meanwhile, in the present, Nicolas Lash meets the alluring and secretive Jo, and finds himself pursued by some familiar-looking sinister goons!

Will Raines and our sympathetic femme fatale evade the demonic forces on their trail? And will they survive their ordeal at those mountains of madness known as ... The Comics Canon?

In This Episode!

• Nods to North By Northwest
• Who is the protagonist of this story?
• The lipstick-on-the-collar trope
• The trouble with Sylvia Raines
• Jack Kirby's New Gods
• Lazarus
• Our Death of Captain America and Groot and Jimmy Olsen episodes
• A Study in Emerald
• Mandy
• Criminal: Bad Weekend
• The Violent Vol. 1: Blood Like Tar
• The Drop and Peaky Blinders

Join us in two weeks as Crimewave! concludes (at least for now) with Bastard by Max de Radiguès!

Until then, turn some heads with our snazzy Comics Canon merchandise! And why not accessorize with a little King Krackle from our sponsor at Category 4?

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