Dark Blue

Warren Ellis and Jacen Burrows launched Dark Blue in 2002 for Avatar Press, a single-issue comic that distills Ellis’s signature blend of bleak, speculative noir. The story follows a washed-up, morally compromised cop in a near-future city where corruption and decay are as pervasive as the rain. Burrows’s gritty, detailed artwork grounds the narrative in a palpable sense of urban rot, making this a compact but potent example of Ellis’s early-2000s creator-owned work.