The Black Monday Murders, Issue #1 is a double issue, starting the new series by Jonathan Hickman on Image Comics. The artwork is by Tomm Coker, the coloring by Michael Garland, and the lettering by Rus Wooton, all people who have worked with Hickman in the past. The story starts out in 1929, on Black Thursday. At the heart of it all is the fictional Caina Investment Bank, established in 1957. Its board members deal in black magic, and there has been a murder. Theodore Dumas is a Detective First Grade in the New York Police Department. He's working at a desk following an incident where he shot a woman repeatedly, a woman who happened to be a serial killer.
This is a great title because it's a new idea. Sure, the police story with supernatural tendencies has been around as long as there have been police, but this brings in high finance and macroeconomics, rich people, powerful people. International mergers. Private airplanes. Dark imagery. I can get over the similarities between Dumas and Fox Mulder and all the others. You have to have a talented detective as the foil for the evil conglomerate. I'll buy Issue #2 this Wednesday.
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