Scars

Warren Ellis and Jacen Burrows deliver a grim, unflinching six-issue saga for Avatar Press, following a police detective's obsessive hunt for a serial killer in a decaying city. The series strips away superheroics to focus on the brutal, psychological toll of violence and the scars it leaves on both hunter and hunted. Burrows' stark, detailed artwork grounds Ellis's taut, profane script in a world of rain-slicked streets and moral rot. Scars stands as a raw, early example of the creators' long-running collaboration and a key work in Avatar's stable of mature-reader crime horror.