Pearl Volume 1

<b>The <i>New York Times</i> bestselling Peabody and multi-Eisner award-winning writer Brian Michael Bendis (<i>Superman</i>) and superstar <i>Jessica Jones</i> co-creator Michael Gaydos begin a masterful saga involving art crime loyalty and passion.</b> <p/>Pearl Tanaka's an outsider among outsiders. A Japanese American with albinism she was born into a world ruled by the American yakuza. Now she uses her unequaled skills as a tattoo artist to make a living in San Francisco and all that she owes to the yakuza is the occasional kickback from her shop. <p/>That all changes the day that she meets Rick Araki...and saves his life. Rick is another tattoo artist who's run afoul of a different yakuza clan. By interfering with their hit on him Pearl risks drawing her patron into a deadly gang war. <p/>Worse Pearl has revealed to her yakuza bosses one of her deepest secrets: she has a talent for killing. Now to pay off her debt she must become an assassin for her yakuza clan. <p/>But Pearl Tanaka's secrets run more than just skin deep... <p/>Collects <i>Pearl</i> #1-#6.<br>