Image Comics brings you a crime and mystery story about a private detective without loyalties,, investigating crimes and stuff with his assistant in Newburn on its first volume. 
So I’m reading another New York-themed story, other than mine and one of Brubaker and Phillips comic book series were there more than any other fun comic book to read but it also include some crime scenes. This couldn’t have been more intriguing to get, let alone a police detective who can solve some mysteries including the homicide ones. This book is created by Chip Zdarsky and Jacob Phillips, I thought this is another Brubaker and Phillips series, who is this Chip Zdarsky? Chip is a Canadian comic book artist, writer, journalist and illustrator who created Prison Funnies and Monster Cops as an artist, but he the co-creator of Sex Criminals with the writer Matt Fraction. Unlike his skills, this time, he’s telling a story of this comic while Phillips does the art, which is truly a twist.
The front cover shows a black and white image of the scene in uptown New York where the neighborhood is surrounded by police cars who are after some murderer. If you didn’t think this is another Brubaker and Phillips book, you’d better guess who’s inside the apartment with the lights on. The top side of the front cover shows the main character turning his head behind his back, which is more in detail, it’s an awe-inspiring composition.
The story when an old man is working out at his own luxury apartment until he got a call from the police department about a crime scene where some guy stole 10 kilos of coke from his own family, which is more accurate when his family is so obsessed with cocaine. However, there’s an intriguing question coming from a local resident of that apartment “Why the fuck is a private detective investigating a mafia murder?” The first thing that he did is he asked an elderly person what happened last night, and it all started when she was watching N.Y. Legal show while she dropped her tea cup because she doesn’t know the exact time that she heard the gunshots because she was distracted watching a tv show at 8 pm. And then at 8:10 PM some other woman heard the gunshot and saw a white guy running with a gym bag that was carrying so much cocaine. And then the search began when he discovered some security cameras at some bar in the middle of the night, there he asked the worker to look back at the time frame after 8 pm for him to look for a white man wearing a jacket. Fortunately, the camera caught his face which happens to be a young man in his teens to 20 years old. He told the detective that some guy texted about the coke and wanted to sell it. He just want to make some money for his father, but unfortunately, he couldn’t find the coke all over the apartment, but he made the mistake to murder his whole family for cocaine. And then the detective claims that the boy is going to prison for murder.
Some people had heard of detective Newburn, the main character of the story who turns out to be more like Harold Callahan from one of Clint Eastwood’s films Dirty Harry, but the opposite version of him. Then afterward out of nowhere, he hired an assistant who just hid the cocaine behind the wall of her apartment. And then they got involved in another case, which is this time a terrorist attack, that is Arson from the Albanos. Imagine, if there’s another terrorist attack around the city, what will you do, save everyone or wait until the traffic gets out of the way? And there are a number of Emily’s journals at the end of the scene of the comic. The one thing I do like about the journal is that Emily, just wrote something that she gets pissed off like “Fuck” or “He’s an asshole” or something who looks down to Newburn, as the other people criticize him like “he’s a cold motherfucker” and someone goes on ranting by some crazy old man who goes “You’re fucking trespassing, you mafia shit!” As a long-living native New Yorker, THIS COMIC IS COMEDY GOLD, AND I CAN’T STOP LAUGHING ABOUT IT. The next case goes on a series of dead people going through his twenty-seventh homicide where every major crime family has suffered so many losses. I can’t think of one person enough who did it besides the Arson family. While there are more crime scenes that are related to the many murders of one of the mafia families, how will he be going to the light at the end of the tunnel?
I got to say, of all the other Brubaker and Phillips books, this actually made my day even better, because I can’t praise enough of this comedy, and talking down to Newburn is really something. Why the fuck is this detective investigating a mafia crime scene? Why is he trespassing on someone’s office?? Why does Emily’s Journal say FUCK?? Why is the detective in prison and goes out like a bitch while he told one of his enemies that manny was fucking Gloria?? NEWBURN, THAT’S FUCKING WHY!! If you readers think that I watched another episode of Boondocks, this one is actually making you feel like a smartass already. But this storytelling is really amazing, and I would like to keep reading it and going through the journey of a smartass detective.
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