A
comic book series published by
America's Best Comics. It's written by comics god
Alan Moore and pencilled by
Gene Ha. It's a
cross between a
superhero comic and a
police procedural, like "
NYPD Blue" or "
Homicide: Life on the Street." It depicts the
police officers of the
Tenth Precinct of
Neopolis -- a
city where
everyone has
superpowers.
The main
characters include Lt. Cathy "
Peregrine" Colby, Sgt. Steve "
Jetman" Traynor, Sgt.
Kemlo Caesar (a
talking doberman wearing a
bipedal robotic exoskelton), Sgt.
Jackie Kowalski, Detective John "
King Peacock" Corbeau, Detective
Synaesthesia Jackson, Officer Jeff
Smax, Officer Peter "
Shock-Headed Peter" Cheney, Officer Duane "
Dust Devil" Bodine, Officer Sung "
Girl One" Li, Officer Irma "
Irma Geddon" Wornow, Officer Robyn "
Toybox" Slinger, and Officer
Joe Pi, with backup work from Sgt. Hector "
Monsoon" Lopez, Special Interrogator Alexei "
The Spaceman" Glushko, SWAT Team Leader Bill "
The Wolfspider" Bailey, Hostage Negotiator Harry "
The Word" Lovelace, and Pathologist Dr. Sally-Jo "
Micro-Maid" Jessell.
Some of the
cases the
Top 10 has worked include the
head-snatching
serial killer Libra; the
drunken rampage of
Gograh, a
washed-up,
overweight giant lizard; a bunch of
ravers dosed up on a
superspeed drug called
Mongoose Blood; a
telekinetic mental patient who thinks he's
Santa Claus (he can make
reindeer fly, see?); an
infestation of
UltraMice; the
murder of
Baldur the Beautiful; a
fatal accident involving
teleportation beams; and several
mysterious crimes which certain
important and
powerful people want to remain
unsolved.
In addition to
Moore's
fantastic writing,
Ha's detailed
artwork includes tons of
comic book in-jokes, as well as massive numbers of
cameo appearances in each issue, including the
Mirror Universe Star Trek crew, the
Powerpuff Girls,
Charlie Brown and
Snoopy,
Fry,
Leela, and
Bender from "
Futurama," and
William Shakespeare.