Whiteout: Melt

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Whiteout: Melt is the title of a limited comic book series written by Greg Rucka, illustrated by Steve Lieber, and published by Oni Press in 2000. It is the sequel to Whiteout and won the 2000 Eisner Award for Best Limited Series.

The story follows Carrie Stetko, a U.S. Marshal who is called back to Antarctica from her vacation in New Zealand to investigate the explosion of a Russian science outpost. There she discovers a cache of illicit nuclear warheads and evidence that some of them are missing. Along with an officer from the Russian intelligence service, Stetko sets off across the ice on foot to track down the thieves.

Like Whiteout, the illustrations are all in black and white, capturing the starkness of the Antarctic landscape.

A third volume in the series, Whiteout: Thaw is expected to be released as four separate issues beginning in the Fall of 2007.^[1]