Lodger

STAFF PICK: "David Lapham is one of the most brilliant and underrated American cartoonists of all time (if you don't believe me, check out his long-running crime series Stray Bullets or his brilliant rock 'n' roll fever dream Young Liars), and his latest, co-created with his wife Maria, is a new classic for the bibliography. A standalone miniseries, Lodger is a revenge thriller that oozes with raw dialogue and rawer violence, like a lost Peckinpah film crossed with a particularly nasty dimestore noir. For all the rough-edged verisimilitude and soul-sucking nihilism, it's rooted in a humanistic compassion that gives the ugliness heart and soul, and the storytelling is top-notch. This is an under-the-radar jewel of contemporary crime fiction." - Kevin K.