A pretty average story of conflicted detective hunting down an odious criminal. Well told, with great dialogue and nice art but a bit too obvious ending to make in that interesting. However it's elevated by Ellis comments, a page or two between chapters discussing the comics themes, a fascinating, engaging an autobiographical rant at the darkness of life. This lifts and enhances the comic, actually the comic becomes merely an extra filling to Ellis's writing. It’s a shame then that this stops two chapters before the end and the artist takes over, he is good but not really the same thing and so in the end I can’t recommend it. ( )