Cursed at birth with extraordinary bad luck, Charlene Chuck Manchester
provides disaster where someone else can profit.
Got a failing business? For a price Chuck will make sure you collect on
that insurance policy, without ever getting your own hands dirty. But
when a crime boss hires her to take out an evangelical cult, things
don't go as planned. Now the mob boss, the cult leader, and a dogged
insurance-fraud investigator all come for her at once.
Everything that could go wrong does--and only about half of it by
accident. A dangerous liaison with the crime boss's daughter ups the
stakes fatally for Chuck, as the curse she's run from her whole life
finally catches up to her.
Lela Gwenn brings a fresh voice to comics with this twisty noir, full of
outlaws who aren't so much wise guys as they are smart asses. Matthew
Dow Smith, best known for a long run on IDW's X-Files, brings that
weird detective vibe, placing the oddball villains and anti-heroes in a
grounded world taking us from the bad side of town, through shadowy
office spaces reminiscent of Sam Spade, to a fiery revival tent and the
splendor of a Tibetan abbey.
Chuck will need more than a rabbit's foot to get through this.
Collects Bad Luck Chuck #1-4.
