Another of Rucka's damaged, driven heroines, Dex is a bit more laid-back and cool, but she's still got a gambling problem and a mentally handicapped brother to support. A down-at-heel PI with slightly tarnished heart of gold, she walks down the mean streets of Portland Oregon. Inveigled, rather than hired, to search for a missing grandaughter, she quickly finds herself roughed up by an unsavoury pair and invited for words with a terrifying local gangster. So it's not a straightforward missing-person case, is it? Stumptown is like an updating of The Rockford Files with its sensible, likeable, honourable, protagonist plagued by the worst luck, and the utterly gorgeous artwork by Matthew Southworth gives it an amazing atmosphere.