Sam Noir

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Creative team
Sam Noir
Sam Noir issue #1
Publisher	ShadowLine, Image Comics
Format	Limited series
Publication date	September 2006—
Writer(s)	Eric A Anderson Manny Trembley
Artist(s)	Manny Trembley

Sam Noir is a comic book mini-series written by Eric A. Anderson/Manny Trembley and illustrated by Manny Trembley, first published in September 2006.

Rendered in grayscale, the comic is a fusion of hardboiled noir fiction and a samurai adventure tale. While originally a three-issue mini-series, the comic's popularity and critical acclaim caused it to continue, with another 3-issue "Ronin holiday" mini-series getting published by Image's ShadowLine imprint (the last page indicates another mini to be published in June 2007) ^[1]

1 Plot
2 Reception
3 Collected editions
4 Notes
5 References
6 External links

[edit] Plot

Sam Noir, a ronin detective, is paid to track a young woman named Jasmine, and after watching her for a while begins to fall in love with her. After Jasmine's murder by ninjas, Sam starts to look for "Master Fuyu", the man who ordered her assassination.

[edit] Reception

Comics Bulletin calls Sam Noir's art "fantastic", but the story "more than a little derivative".^[2] Broken Frontier stated that "Anderson knows his hard-boiled style ... [making] the reading itself compelling—not to mention witty at times," while the art's "lyrical framing, evocative panel constructions, light and shadow effects [are] so well executed they’re like characters in the story".^[3]

Conversely, The X-Axis found the series "frustrating", stating that "it feels like there are two completely different, and better, comics struggling to get out - one which is much more funny, and one which takes [itself] entirely seriously".^[4]