James Romberger (artist)
Vertigo Comics
Martin Keane is a literary writer whose second novel just received scathing reviews. He has a police officer father he can barely stand - a man who couldn't be more different from. But he decides to combine the two together for his next book, a historical cop thriller which he hopes will give him the chance to work through his family issues and cope with his past. Then, suddenly, Martin's wife disappears without a trace. And even as people start suspecting Martin himself might be responsible, he knows there's much more to it than that. He's sure there are clues to her abduction that he's overlooking, ones which can perhaps even
be found in the novel he's obsessively writing. As he and his father investigate his wife's disappearance, he'll find the truth is much more shocking than he thought - in a twist ending no one would ever dare guess.
I keep coming back to Milligan and he always disappoints. with the exception of some of the later 'Shade: The Changing Man' issues I've never dug anything he's done. This one looked intriguing and it's part of a range of small format hardback original graphic novels that Vertigo did for a short while.
The story is of a writer whose wife disappears one night in a manner that reminds of his grandmother's disappearance and references the plot of the book he's writing.
What we get is a fairly cliched noir littered with turgid prose sections, ends with a finale that's about as obvious as a finale can get and the whole thing left me feeling rather depressed.
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