Star Noir is a Science Fiction noir comic-book series by Tony James and Pablo De Bonis. It was funded via Indiegogo.
Way back in 1947, Los Angeles detective Alan Miller reluctantly partners with alien detective Ellis Tate to find out who's been kidnapping locals and who disemboweled detective Perkins.
This series contains examples of:
- Alliterative Name: The series opens with the murder of Patrick Perkins.
- Armored Closet Gay: Wendell Collins, the local coroner, has been carrying on an affair with his assistant, who is married.
- A Form You Are Comfortable With: Tate appears to most humans to be just another human, albeit unusually short. For some reason, this doesn't work on Miller.
- Glamour Failure: Tate's ability to appear human doesn't work on Miller, who sees his true form. This makes things incredibly awkward when Tate shows up at the station posing as a detective from New York and Miller pulls a gun on him in full view of his superior officer.
- I Need a Freaking Drink: In the first issue, Miller takes a beating from a pair of mob goons in order to protect his friend's bar. When the bartender asks what he wants in thanks for dealing with the goons, Miller's obvious answer is another drink.
- The Mole: Jimmy Fratianno, one of the muscle guys for local boss Dragna, has been informing on his boss to the cops.
- Spotting the Thread: The first sign that something is off about Perkins' death is that his heart was surgically removed but the surrounding arteries were both cut and sealed within seconds. Collins notes that there does not exist a tool on Earth that could have done that. There's also symbols burned into the surrounding flesh.
