Collection of graphic short stories, noir-ish narratives that are united by their exploration of the great American mythological drama by way of the desperate and haunted characters that populate its pages. Lane's characters exist on the margins of society - alienated, floating in the void between hope and despair, confused but introspective. The writing is straightforward, the stories told in a pulpy idiom with an existential edge, often in the first person, reminiscent of David Goodis's or Jim Thompson's prose or films like Pick-Up on South Street.