Fiction Squad

In the fractured fairy-tale city of Readington, a washed-up police detective named Frankie Mack must navigate a world where nursery rhymes and storybook characters are all too real. Published by Boom! Studios in 2014–2015, this six-issue series blends noir mystery with whimsical fantasy, anchored by the clean, expressive art of Ramón Bachs. It matters as a clever, self-contained riff on genre tropes, treating its storybook cast with the gritty seriousness of a police procedural.