Family Man

Jerome Charyn and Joe Staton brought a noir sensibility to DC's short-lived Family Man series (1995), a three-issue miniseries that follows a hitman whose violent profession clashes with his role as a suburban father. The story is a gritty, character-driven exploration of duality, with Staton's sharp, expressive art grounding the book's tense, morally ambiguous tone. Though brief, the series stands as a cult-classic example of mid-90s DC's willingness to publish offbeat, creator-driven crime comics outside the superhero mainstream.