In the ebony black night, the moon shone like a prison-break searchlight. Her ruby-red lips were pursed with the anticipation of a spider waiting on the hearty meal of a web-encroaching fly. The mystery revealed itself like a January fog rolling in across the silent bay.
Ah, the detective thriller! Those time-honoured and wholly engrossing narratives that, whatever off-kilter descriptive language used, are always enjoyably fun reads that are best saved for dark and stormy nights by the fireplace!
Who doesn’t love them?
Still, when the long-standing genre can tell a story with an inventive new angle, it’s time to publicly celebrate.
This is especially true when that work of fiction is in the comic book format. And that’s what we get today, in a new five-issue miniseries that is perfectly titled: Profane.
Profane is written by longtime critical and fan-favourite, Peter Milligan (John Constantine: Hellblazer, Enigma, Shade the Changing Man, X-Static) and illustrated by brilliant veteran, Raul Fernandez (Detective Comics, Justice League Dark) whose visual resume is perfectly in tune with the detective noir genre – and all proudly published by Boom! Studios.
Here is the story of a murder mystery that walks a knife’s edge between fact and mind-bending fiction. Set in Los Angeles (the home of all great noir), Will Profane is a private investigator with plenty of character defects. His latest case is a tough one. “This is a murder mystery” he tells readers at the opening, “and this is without doubt my most important case.”
Furtive clues lead Profane down an elaborate trail that ends with a famous detective novelist – and dangerous secrets about the P.I.’s own life!
Make the run to your local comic book shop today and walk the delicious page-turning tightrope of the unraveling noir mystery that is Profane #1!
You can catch a sneak preview of Profane in the series trailer directly below.
