Stumptown Volume 1

My blog post about this book is at this link. ( )

Dex’s double case trouble.

http://freesf.strandedinoz.com/wordpress/2010/12/stumptown-01-the-case-of-the-gi... ( )

http://cscs.umich.edu/~crshalizi/weblog/algae-2011-05.html#stumptown ( )

Stumptown is a noir detective comic written by Greg Rucka and illustrated by Matthew Southworth. Dex Parios is a tough private eye in Portland whose career success resembles Jim Rockford's. The Case of the Girl Who Took her Shampoo (But Left her Mini) is a big, gorgeous hardback book the collects the several comics that make up that story.

It's got the whole PI thing going on, and is a fun read. The artwork is gorgeous and pure Portland. You recognize buildings, streets and landscape everywhere. The only un-Portland thing is that Dex drives places downtown and finds convenient on-street parking from which she can do surveillance. Yeah, sure.