Best Crime and Noir Comics

Sin City: The Hard Goodbye is Frank Miller's brutal, gorgeous noir masterpiece, following Marv on a blood-soaked quest for revenge in a city where everyone is rotten and nothing is simple.

Sin City: A Dame to Kill For is a twisting femme fatale noir with Miller's most elaborate plotting, centering on a woman who uses everyone around her as a weapon.

100 Bullets is the Vertigo crime masterpiece, a sprawling conspiracy noir that takes 100 issues to reveal its full hand while delivering one excellent crime story after another.

Planetary by Warren Ellis and John Cassaday is archaeology of super-fiction told through a noir lens, three detectives uncovering the secret history of a world full of buried wonders.