COMING JUNE 2008

The Dark City Diaries is a four-issue, full-color miniseries featuring the popular webcomics mystery woman from the now-retired Supernatural Crime online comics site.

Written by yours truly, with art by Joe Staton, inks by Horacio Ottolini and Mark Stegbauer, and colors by Melissa Kaercher, The Dark City Diaries will be published in early 2008 by Ape Entertainment, with variant covers by Brian Bolland, Phil Hester, Matt Haley and Mike Wieringo. Keep checking this page for updates.

Femme Noir is about a nameless female vigilante/detective who stalks the mean streets of Port Nocturne, the Dark City of every film noir and hardboiled crime pulp; a city of cold, gray fog, unrelenting rain, and deep, ominous shadows.

It’s a town populated by duplicitous dames and grim gunmen, ruthless racketeers and greedy gangsters, corrupt cops and parasitic politicians. It has more than its share of hardboiled private eyes and enemy spies, plucky girl reporters and pug-nosed ex-boxers, mad scientists and crackpot inventors, cunning cat burglars, slick grifters, stone-cold hitmen, killer robots, vengeful jungle girls, walking corpses and even a talking gorilla or two.

Port Nocturne: where each night seems to last forever, the sharp scent of gunpowder lingers in the air like cheap perfume, every black alley comes to a dead end... and justice is blonde.

Recommended for fans of The Spirit, The Goon, Frankenstein Mobster, Will Eisner's John Law, Athena Voltaire, Catwoman and Birds of Prey.

Critical Acclaim for Femme Noir:

"It hits you like a kick to the solar plexus, or a pistol shot hours into your worst hangover."
– USA Today

"For those who love old movies, radio shows, pulps, or simply crime & detective dramas ... A city on the edge of darkness has an angel of hard justice."
- Tonya Crawford
BrokenFrontier

"...a serious comic, but serious fun, of a kind you don’t see anymore on the shelves... giving the reader dark mysteries and action with a feminist and contemporary twist on a retro backdrop."
- Andrea Speed
Comixtreme

"...a hard hittin', tough talkin' dame who's nobody's sweetheart. If you like your thrills hardboiled and your action neat, then check this out..."
– Chuck Dixon
Writer: Nightwing, Birds of Prey, El Cazador, Iron Ghost

"FEMME NOIR: THE DARK CITY DIARIES is a .45 caliber fueled ride into the dark heart of the city in the arms of a nightmare blonde who'd just as soon kill you as boink you. Christopher Mills and Joe Staton have given us a stunning new take on the noir landscape. Femme Noir is as hard hitting as a psycho wielding a baseball bat"
– Paul Bishop
Author of the Fey Croaker LAPD novels

"Christopher Mills and Joe Staton's FEMME NOIR is a tasty stir fry of pop culture touchstones: The Spirit, Batman, The Shadow, Black Mask, Dime Detective, Raymond Chandler and about a zillion RKO B-films; the perfect meal for those of you not getting enough good old high-fiber pulp in your diet.

"You want it? They got it: mean streets, treacherous back alleys, cold blooded bad guys, slimy gang lords, killer robots, big city corruption, and a mysterious crime-fighting avenger who definitely knows how to fill out a pair of fishnets, and isn't above serving up her own kind of justice. Blonde justice."
– Kevin Burton Smith
Thrilling Detective website