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Alas, I was right. Not that there's anything wrong with the actual book. JULIET "JINX" ALAMEDA is a hard-assed, foul-mouthed female bounty hunter/bail bondsman, working the not-so-nice streets of Cleveland, pushing thirty and getting mighty tired of "the Life." Once upon a time, she was a tea-and-muffin, keeping a journal kinda gal, who started out in the the biz cutting bonds, figuring she'd help people. But that was a long time ago. Now she's hooked up with Dave "Goldfish" Gold, a grifter with "a rap sheet longer than Tupac" and his slimy, swarmy partner, Columbia, and their hunt for a mountain of money that could be the way out for all of them. Complicating things is the growing relationship between Jinx and Goldfish, and Columbia's ever-growing paranoia. A truly unique comic with a style all its own, a two-fisted stylized montage of art and photos and clipping and dark, dark shadows, all punky attitude and grit. But after a short burst of issues with Caliber, and another short run with Image, the series folded, ignored by everyone, it seems but the critcs and its small cult of fans, who loved it. Like I said, alas.... Jinx's creator Bendis first entered the comic world with AKA Goldfish, originally published in 1995 as a series of one-shots by Caliber Comics, which first introduced Goldfish and Columbia. From there it was a short step to Jinx, and he's since has gone on to bigger (but not necessarily better things, IMHO), writing the Spawn spin-off, Sam and Twitch, and a slew of both creator-owned and licensed titles, most notably for Marvel (including The Ultimate Spider-Man and Daredevil. Other crime comics include Scarlet, Torso, Powers and Alias, about a former superhero turned P.I. set loose in the Marvel's comic book universe. But Jinx seems to have remained close to his heart. In the fall of 2000, a couple of years after Jinx faded away, Berndis revived her in the "Bounty Hunter Wars" story arc in Sam and Twitch, his book about an Odd Couple team of New York cops. And he keeps threatening she'll return one day... QUOTES
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