- Sam Noir
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format =Limited series
publisher =ShadowLine ,Image Comics
date = September 2006—
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writers =Eric A Anderson Manny Trembley
artists = Manny Trembley
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creators ="Sam Noir" is a
comic book mini-series written byEric A. Anderson /Manny Trembley and illustrated by Manny Trembley, first published in September 2006.Rendered in
grayscale , the comic is a fusion ofhardboiled noir fiction and a samurai adventure tale. While originally a three-issue mini-series, the comic's popularity and critical acclaim caused it to continue, with another 3-issue "Ronin holiday" mini-series getting published by Image'sShadowLine imprint (the last page indicates another mini to be published in June 2007) cite web | url=http://comics.ign.com/articles/749/749706p1.html | title=The Samurai Detective Goes On Vacation | work=IGN | accessdate=December 7 | accessyear=2006 ]Plot
Sam Noir, a
ronin detective , is paid to track a young woman named Jasmine, and after watching her for a while begins to fall in love with her. After Jasmine's murder byninja s, Sam starts to look for "Master Fuyu", the man who ordered herassassination .Reception
Comics Bulletin calls "Sam Noir"' s art "fantastic", but the story "more than a little derivative".cite web | url=http://www.comicsbulletin.com/news/story.php?a=2577 | title="Sam Noir: Samurai Detective" #1 Review | work=Comics Bulletin | accessdate=December 7 | accessyear=2006 ] Broken Frontier stated that "Anderson knows his hard-boiled style ... [making] the reading itself compelling—not to mention witty at times," while the art's "lyrical framing, evocative panel constructions, light and shadow effects [are] so well executed they’re like characters in the story".cite web | url=http://www.brokenfrontier.com/reviews/details.php?id=1013 | title="Sam Noir: Samurai Detective" #1 | work=Broken Frontier | accessdate=December 7 | accessyear=2006 ]Conversely, The X-Axis found the series "frustrating", stating that "it feels like there are two completely different, and better, comics struggling to get out - one which is much more funny, and one which takes [itself] entirely seriously".cite web | url=http://www.thexaxis.com/misc/samuraidetective1.htm | title="Sam Noir: Samurai Detective" #1 Review | work=The X-Axis | accessdate=December 7 | accessyear=2006 ]
Collected editions
* "Sam Noir: Volume 1".
Image Comics 2007-06-13 . ISBN 1582407584 ISBN 978-1582407586Notes
References
*comicbookdb|type=title|id=9608|title="Sam Noir: Samurai Detective"
External links
* [http://www.pandaxpress.com/ PandaXpress!] Anderson and Trembley's ongoing webcomic
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