Breakdown

Chuck Dixon and artist Dave Ross teamed up for this six-issue miniseries from Devil's Due Publishing, a taut thriller following a former mob enforcer trying to escape his violent past. Published in the mid-2000s, Breakdown grounds its crime drama in the gritty fallout of a life lived on the wrong side of the law. It stands as a compact, character-driven example of Dixon's skill for hardboiled storytelling outside the superhero mainstream.