Driver for the Dead

A short-lived but potent German crime-noir one-shot from Splitter Verlag, Driver for the Dead (2012) follows a mysterious chauffeur who transports the bodies of the recently deceased through a rain-slicked, morally ambiguous underworld. The series, credited to writer and artist collective, distills its premise into a single, atmospheric issue that lingers on mood and hard-boiled dialogue. It matters as a tight, self-contained example of European genre comics—a single, complete story that proves a noir thriller can be told in a single, perfect serving.