4 out of 5

Yeah man, my new fave.  …BUT WILL THERE BE MORE IN PRINT?  ACTION LAB?  MILLS?  I’m just not with digital reading yet, because I’m dumb.

Anyhow, “Digger” McRae, planner-for-hire, planner of bad things.  Like The Last Big Score, which is detailed in Scavengers, apparently the first Digger story.  Burchett’s art is a bit looser here than it was in Predators, but it’s still aces noir (besides a weird printing mishap that seems to have caused a very, very faint Action Lab ad to run in the background of each page), all loose, limber lines and shadows, men with square jaws and big muscles.  The story is even more tropey than the two issues before, but still happily mashed up with the unique voice and forward thrust Mills brings to it.  And it captures a single event, so there’s no pacing hiccups.  But… some of the dialogue stretches a bit too much for hardcore: Mills wastes an awesome “I had dog once…” bit on a scenario that doesn’t quite match it, and there’s a couple other instances of this – of a creator obviously wanting so badly to make this drip with everything he loves from the genre and maybe stuffing too much in.

Still, as I said with Predators, this is the crime comic I want to read: instantly identifiable characters whom you still want to read about; good stories; good action.  It’s almost enough to get me reading online…