In an alternate world, a walled-off London is plagued by the bubonic plague while in the grip of a momentous battle over the power of an extremely strong Catholic church.
Paul Grist's wonderful crime comic marches into its fifth volume, this time bringing readers a blind assassin, a very annoying monkey, a crazy arsonist, and a man who turns himself in for police protection even though the police can't legally touch him.
What happened to the solo comic from a new creator? The independent comics section of the rack used to be full of such comics; Creators such as Dan Clowes, Chester Brown and the Hernandez Brothers started that way.