Case Files: Sam & Twitch #8

Among the grittiest crime comics of 2004, this Image series delivers exactly what its tagline promises — hard-edged crime fiction with real weight. Greg Capullo's cover art places the hulking Sam front and center, trench coat open and shotgun in hand, while a battered Twitch clutches his glasses beside him, the two detectives silhouetted against a bleak, rubble-strewn landscape. With Marc Andreyko writing and Paul Lee on interior art, "Skeletons, Part 2" looks to keep this street-level thriller running at full tilt.