Jinx

Brian Michael Bendis wrote and drew this gritty five-issue Image series, a raw crime-noir story set in Cleveland that follows a down-on-her-luck female bounty hunter. With its stark black-and-white art and sharp, naturalistic dialogue, Jinx marked an early showcase of Bendis's signature style before his rise to mainstream fame. It's a foundational work in his crime comics canon, offering a tightly focused, character-driven thriller that helped define the independent crime genre of the late 1990s.