Previously: Jake Riddick, gumshoe from the dodgy part of town, has asked too many questions at the Olympique, a burlesque theatre. After entering through the front door, he has been thrown out through the back door. But his gut feeling and some more investigating tell him not to give up on the burlesque lead. So he returns…

The Noir Suites and stories I was working on last year seem to have developed a life of their own. Pictures beget pictures, bits of narrative start to add up to a larger story. This seems to bring me closer to my dream of finishing a graphic short story—a noir comic—some day soon.

From that larger story, I’ve already shared some bits and sequences, but it seems to get harder to separate these sequences into six-image narratives. So I’ve decided to do a series of “sins” and link them together, and I am very grateful to Toy Photographers for going along with that experiment.