English | CBR,CBZ| ~32 pages |578 MB
After finishing Fatale, Ed Brubaker wanted to write something unlike anything he had done before. He decided that he wanted to do "an epic noir that would have some meta connotations to it." The project was meticulously researched, and Brubaker even hired a research assistant to collate a photo file for the creative team, which was filled with numerous photos "all categorized by neighborhood, real people, movie stars, movie premieres, cool restaurants…".